Programming

Ed Carroll Re-Ups as COO at AMC Networks

New Four-Year Contract Sets Salary at $1.1M
By: Jon Lafayette (Broadcasting & Cable) Apr 24 2013 - 6:01pm
New Four-Year Contract Sets Salary at $1.1M

AMC Networks said that COO Ed Carroll has signed a new four-year contract that would keep him at the company until the end of 2016.


Next TV: Networks Find Friends on Digital Playground

Panelists: Online Video, Traditional Television Can Coexist Nicely
By: Todd Spangler Mar 21 2013 - 5:10pm
Panelists: Online Video, Traditional Television Can Coexist Nicely

New York -- Far from cutting out the legs from under TV, Internet-video platforms are providing new avenues for networks and producers to expand their brands -- and can act as a low-cost way to incubate original content.

That was the upbeat sentiment of a panel of industry executives here at Multichannel News/B&C’s Next TV Summit.

“Digital, the Web -- it’s another playground to get your content in,” said John P. Roberts, senior vice president of digital media and commercial affairs for production company Endemol USA.

Fox Trots U-verse Into 'TV Everywhere' Dance

AT&T TV Customers Now Have Online Access to Network’s New Episodes Day After Air
By: Todd Spangler Mar 19 2013 - 5:21pm
AT&T TV Customers Now Have Online Access to Network’s New Episodes Day After Air

Fox Broadcasting has brought AT&T U-verse into its slowly expanding authentication tent, with the telco’s video subs now able to watch full-length episodes of shows like New Girl and The Simpsons online and on mobile devices the day after they air on TV.

AT&T is the sixth pay TV partner to sign on for Fox’s TV Everywhere service, joining Dish Network, Verizon Communications, Mediacom Communications, Blue Ridge Communications and Cable One.

Netflix Nabs 'The Killing' Season 3 After Finale on AMC

Deal with Fox Television Studios Played Big Role in Bringing Drama Back to TV
By: Todd Spangler Mar 14 2013 - 8:30am
Deal with Fox Television Studios Played Big Role in Bringing Drama Back to TV

Netflix played a big role in bringing the third season of crime drama The Killing back from beyond the grave, after AMC previously had declined to renew the show.

The Internet streaming service cut a deal with Fox Television Studios to exclusively offer The Killing Season 3 on streaming three months after the finale airs in AMC. The first two seasons of the show were already available on streaming the U.S., and the agreement brings those to Canadian customers as well.

Lifetime Resurrects 'Drop Dead Diva' for a Fifth Season

One-Hour Drama Was Previously Canceled in January
By: Tim Baysinger (Broadcasting & Cable) Mar 1 2013 - 9:19pm
One-Hour Drama Was Previously Canceled in January
 

After canceling the series earlier this year, Lifetime has decided to revive Drop Dead Diva for a fifth season.

The one-hour drama centers on an aspiring model, Deborah "Deb" Dobkins, who was killed in a car crash and is brought back to life as lawyer Jane Bingum.

Drop Dead Diva premiered to 2.8 million viewers in July 2009. Its fourth season averaged 2.3 million viewers, with the finale drawing a season-best 2.76 million viewers.

MCN Review: 'Vikings'

Debuts Sunday, March 3 at 10 p.m. on History
By: Kent Gibbons Mar 3 2013 - 12:29pm
Debuts Sunday, March 3 at 10 p.m. on History

 

Apologies if, like me, hearing the name Vikings cues up Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” in your brain. But this series is that infectious, and that hard, as in rock.

It opens brilliantly on a stark, spear-strewn hillside along the Eastern Baltic, 793 A.D. The camera zooms in on a bloodied warrior called Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel), who’s about to engage, ax versus sword, two of the few survivors of his crew’s raid from Scandinavia.

Comcast Says NBCU Is Negotiating 'Full Freight' Internet TV Deals

Media Company In Talks With Several Online Video Distributors, According to MSO’s Report to FCC
By: Todd Spangler Mar 1 2013 - 5:25pm
Media Company In Talks With Several Online Video Distributors, According to MSO’s Report to FCC

NBCUniversal is in talks with several Internet video providers to license a full lineup of programming comparable to what it offers traditional pay TV providers, Comcast disclosed in its annual report to the Federal Communications Commission.

ESPN Sells U.K. and Ireland Channels to BT Group

Deal Includes ESPN U.K., ESPN America and Portfolio of Sports Rights
By: Tim Baysinger -- Broadcasting & Cable Feb 25 2013 - 6:06pm
Deal Includes ESPN U.K., ESPN America and Portfolio of Sports Rights

United Kingdom telecom giant BT Group has agreed to purchase ESPN's U.K. and Ireland TV channels business, which comprises the ESPN and ESPN America channels, as well as a TV-rights portfolio that includes the FA Cup, Scottish Premier League, UEFA Europa League and German Bundesliga.

The transaction is expected to close by July 31. BT will continue to operate at least one ESPN-branded channel that will become part of the BT Sport TV package set to launch this summer.

MCN Review: 'The Bible'

Premieres Sunday, March 3 at 8 p.m. on History
By: Michael Demenchuk Mar 3 2013 - 10:00am
Premieres Sunday, March 3 at 8 p.m. on History

Rating: Two and one-half out of five stars

If you’re a faithful member of the Christian flock, you’ll probably find much to commend in The Bible, History’s five-part, 10-hour “docudrama” adaption of the good book itself, Christianity’s Old and New Testaments.

Twitter Nets Bluefin

Site Acquires Startup That Analyzes TV-Related Social Media Data
By: Todd Spangler Feb 6 2013 - 1:30pm
Site Acquires Startup That Analyzes TV-Related Social Media Data

Twitter announced late Tuesday that it had acquired Bluefin Labs, a startup that analyzes social media activity related to TV and sells that data to advertisers, agencies and TV networks including CBS, Turner Broadcasting System, Fox and Discovery Communications.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Privately held Twitter is paying between $90 million and $100 million for Bluefin, according to multiple reports.

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