Topic: cable television
If you want to sit with the cool kids, you've got to look like you belong there. At a party where Kanye West will play a full set for a venue…
The scatter market may not be as strong as media conglomerates are reporting, but according to Magna Global, things should begin to pick up speed over the next several months. In…
Bad news, everyone: Comedy Central has decided not to order another season of Matt Groening’s Futurama, thus canceling the animated sci-fi comedy after 140 episodes. Set to return on June…
Viacom first sued YouTube in 2007; the case is now back where it started. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton, who first threw out the suit in 2010, had the case bounced…
Comcast has decided to start encrypting its basic cable signal. If you have a cable box, this will mean absolutely nothing to you, but if you run the coaxial cable…
BBC America is getting deeper into scripted territory with a new miniseries based on English fantasy writer Susanna Clarke's 2004 bestseller Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, a nearly 800-page tome…
The Weather Channel held its first full-blown upfront presentation this morning at the Mandarin Oriental in New York, with Weather Co. president David Kenny touting a new slate of originals…
It's official: AMC's hotly debated crime drama The Killing will return to the network for a third season, despite having been apparently canceled and then reportedly sold to Netflix to…
Is Current TV entertaining a tempting bid from Austin-based tech startup SocialGood.tv—a bid that would entail a move to the Texas capital and a reworking of the network's core principles? No. It's…
Sell stocks! Buy bonds! Viacom is offering a quarter-billion dollars' worth of senior debentures—due in 2043—the sale of which will be used to repay some of the network's outstanding debts,…
