Summit Deal Brings ‘Twilight’ to Showtime Showtime Thursday inked a deal with Summit Entertainment that secures the rights to up to 42 theatrical releases and gives the network another lynchpin in its effort to rebuild its movie library after Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate opted to take their films to a new premium cable channel of their own.
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Sprout is offering its preschool version of the televised “Yule Log,” a programming block this Christmas Eve designed for parents trying to get their little ones settled down and ready for bed.
New York—Macrovision Solutions, looking to add some sizzle to the static banner ads that run in its on-screen guides, is planning to sell full-screen, interactive video sponsorships starting early next year.
NBC Universal could slash as many as 500 jobs across the company, or about 3% of its total workforce, according to an executive with knowledge of the media giant’s plans.
Brittany Murphy and Jason Lewis will star in Lifetime’s Nora Roberts’ Tribute, the network’s fourth original movie based on the best-selling author’s popular novels, network officials said.
Viacom, the battered parent of MTV Networks, was the first cable programmer to announce big layoffs resulting from the economic downturn, shedding 850 employees across all of its divisions, or about 7% of its total workforce.
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Cable Hall of Fame Six cable industry leaders were inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame last week during a ceremony held in conjunction with The Cable Center’s Cable Days at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.
History Wraps Up NYC Subway To promote the third season of its hit series ‘Cities of the Underworld,’ History executed the first-ever full advertising wrap of the exterior and interior of a New York City subway car.
DCI Rings In Debut on NASDAQ Exchange Discovery Communications executives and several on-air personalities from across Discovery’s networks rang the opening bell at the NASDAQ stock exchange to commemorate the first day of trading as a public company.
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