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Discovery Adds DirecTV’s Paul Guyardo as Chief Commercial Officer

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Discovery Communications has poached DirecTV exec Paul Guyardo, who will join the company in the newly created role of chief commercial officer. Guayardo, who starts Oct. 5, will oversee the [...]


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Honey Boo Boo Show Canceled Over Mom’s Reported Relationship With Sex Offender

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Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is going off the air for an appalling reason. The hit TLC reality show about the misadventures of an Arkansas family has been canceled in [...]

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US TV Networks Seek to Grow By Expanding Internationally

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On the eve of network TV executives’ annual pilgrimage this week to Cannes, France, for the global programming bazaar known as Mipcom, Viacom announced last Wednesday it will launch men’s [...]

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What Did TV CEOs Tell Investors About the Weak Ad Market?

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Now that second-quarter earnings are over for the media sector, we can finally take a good look at what senior media company executives actually said on calls to investors when [...]

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Discovery’s Fit & Health to Rebrand as Discovery Life

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Discovery Communications has announced that it plans to transform its fitness-oriented network, Discovery Fit & Health, into Discovery Life,

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