• CBS And Warner Bros. Folding UPN And WB Into New Network, The CW by Wayne Friedman

  In a massive change to the broadcasting network environment, CBS Corp. and Warners Bros. will merge the assets of their respective financially struggling networks UPN and The WB, forming a new network, The CW. ...Read the whole story

• Warner Bros. Slates New Couch Potato: 'Dr. Keith' Takes On 'Dr. Phil' by Wayne Friedman

  LAS VEGAS, NV--Going after one of the most successful talk shows in recent years, Warner Bros.' Domestic Television Distribution will challenge "Dr. Phil"'s dominance with another therapist-self-help talk show, starring psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow. ...Read the whole story

• Fox Returns To Late-Night, Counters 'SNL' by David Goetzl

  Fox announced plans for a late-night talk show to air Saturday nights, the first step in what could be a full-fledged return to the late-night battlefield. ...Read the whole story

• Business Media Poised For Year Of Firm Ad Volume Growth by Joe Mandese

  The B-to-B media marketplace continued its turnaround in November 2005, recording a 1.9 percent jump in ad pages over November 2004, according to estimates released late Monday by the Business Information Network, a unit of American Business Media. That brings the year-to-date ad page growth rate for business publishers to 3.6 percent over the first 11 months of 2004, and sets the business media marketplace up for its first year of firm volume growth since the 2001 recession. ...Read the whole story

• IFC: Now Showing In A Theater Near You, And On VOD by David Goetzl

  In a move that will place cable MSOs in more direct competition with movie theaters, IFC Entertainment will release a group of films simultaneously on video-on-demand and at the multiplex. ...Read the whole story

• National Geo Goes Custom, Socially Responsible by John Wolfe

  In a unique venture, a major consumer magazine house has joined forces with an independent custom publishing company in a new initiative dedicated to producing "socially responsible" communications vehicles for third-party clients. ...Read the whole story

• Dish Network Says To Lifetime: Let The People Decide! by David Goetzl

  Dish has offered to carry the Lifetime Television channel on an "a la carte" basis, meaning it would make the channel available to any subscriber who requests it. Dish says it will not charge customers for the channel, and pay Lifetime what it recently requested for each customer who opts for the channel. (Dish declined to name that rate.) ...Read the whole story

• CBS Gets Vision, Names Poltrack To Run It
• PBS Taps WNET Insider Kerger As New Chief
• 'Laguna Beach' Star Tapped For 'Let's Go' Guides
• Correction: Rachael Ray Is Every Day

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