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"Deion & Pilar: Prime Time Love" premieres on Oxygen

Deion Sanders and his wife, former model/actress Pilar Sanders and their five children (two from Sanders first marriage) live in a 40,000 square foot custom ...

Broadcast Facilities buys Andrita Media Center

Broadcast Facilities, a media services company led by former Pixar and Fox executive Simon Bax and Bill Tillson, the President of Broadcast Cable Services, Inc., ...

CBS is crowing loud about its best Thursday showing since December and a win with all-new programming, mostly scripted shows. Of course, there was no “American Idol” on Thursday last week....

O’Hurley to host “Secret Talents”

“Seinfeld” veteran and former “Dancing With the Stars” contestant (not to mention dog show host) John O’Hurley has been signed by CBS to host “Secret ...

ION adds an hour on weekdays

ION Media Networks announced an expanded entertainment schedule on ION Television beginning 4/7. Three new series – “The Steve Harvey Show,” “Family Feud” and “Quantum ...

Univision launches new children's programming block

The Univision Television Network announced the launch of "Planeta U" (Planet U), an educational and informational (E/I) programming block to appeal to kids of all ...

Bravo names Lisa Hsia SVP/New Media

Bravo Media named Lisa Hsia to the newly-created position of SVP/New Media and Digital Strategy, Bravo. In addition to continued oversight of Bravo's new media ...

Equity Media warns investors

It was barely over a year ago that Equity Media became a public company by merging with a “blank check” company created to find an up-and-coming business to invest in. ...

Univision hopes to block further problems

Local television stations are supposed to provide three hours of weekly educational children's programming, a fact which Hispanic giant Univision is sorely familiar with. It ...

In the first of a series of presentations to key advertisers in NYC yesterday, NBC also unveiled Winter and Summer schedules for the 2008-09 broadcast ...

Clinton stays up late

The big late night talk shows are continuing to have no trouble attracting top national talent to their guest lineups -- providing the national talent ...

Media General showdown

Harbinger hedge fund VP Joseph Cleverdon tried to persuade other institutional investors to back his firm’s nominees for three seats on the Media General board ...

They are out standing in his field

That’s “Matt” from West Alton, Missouri in the middle, with 10 city girls – one of whom he hopes will be the woman of his ...

Consumers to sell, donate, recycle 95% of unused analog TVs, post-DTV transition

Questions of what will happen to millions of analog TVs following next year’s transition to digital television (DTV) have been answered with news that is ...

Kathie Lee Gifford joins “Today”

NBC announced that Kathie Lee Gifford has been named co-host of the fourth hour of "Today." Gifford will make her debut alongside Hoda Kotb at ...

NAB TV Board election results

All six incumbents were re-elected to the NAB Television Board, according to election results reported yesterday by NAB. Returning for another term are David Barrett, ...

ABC announces summer sked

ABC announced its summer schedule with the premiere of eight original series, including the return of “The Bachelorette” on Monday, 5/19 (9:00-11:00 p.m.), following the ...

Post strike programming update

The broadcast networks are pulling out all the promotional stops to let viewers know that their favorite TV shows are returning to the schedule with ...