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In a surprise reshuffle atop News Corp.’s digital arm, the conglomerate said late Thursday that Ross Levinsohn has resigned as president of Fox Interactive Media. Peter Levinsohn, president of digital media at Fox Entertainment Group and an 18-year veteran at News Corp., will step in for Ross Levinsohn. (The executives are distant cousins.) Sources suggested …

With uncertainty looming over its presence on YouTube, Comedy Central is refining its broadband video strategy. The network is launching a revamped version of its online programming platform, MotherLoad, this month with a new syndicated video player at its heart, the network said Wednesday. MotherLoad will be integrated deeper into Comedy-Central.com while offering a syndication …

When people in the television news business want to find out what’s going on in their industry, they turn to a blog called TVNewser. But while the executives obsessively checking TVNewser are mostly high powered and highly paid, the person who creates it is not: he is Brian Stelter, a baby-faced 21-year-old at Towson University …

Tired of the boring Macintosh OS X login screen? Seeing the same thing every time you turn on your computer can get a little monotonous. This hack not only lets you change the text on your OS X login screen, but gives you step-by-step instructions on how to change the general appearance. You can even …

FREEWAY!” Bob Wright yells, pointing like a five-star general out the window of his Lincoln Town Car as it approaches the on-ramp to the 101. Wearing a Panama hat and blue blazer, Mr. Wright, NBC Universal’s chairman and chief executive, is barking at a chase car full of corporate underlings who have made the mistake …

From the Manufacturer The Pronto Pro TSU7000 universal remote control goes well beyond the borders of your imagination. The device features an incorporated TFT display with touch screen technology that allows users to control their TVs, DVD players, satellite receivers, stereo systems, and more. The screen offers the best readability on the market, and its …

In desperation there is consolation, because if NBC weren’t taking such a shellacking in prime time — if its nightly lineups looked a little less like the fall of the Roman Empire — then the low-rated comedy “30 Rock” might already have been canceled. But happily for viewers (especially those feeling burned out on the …

The FCC says it will hold its next public hearing on media ownership rules Dec. 11 in Nashville. The FCC held the first of a half-dozen such planned hearings last month in L.A. and got an earful on “the current state of the media and specific issues facing that local market,” as the FCC put …

NBC’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is one of this season’s most high-profile shows, yet its audience has dropped by nearly half since its September premiere. ABC’s Men in Trees is averaging 7million viewers and finishes third in its time slot. Yet both shows were extended for full seasons late last week in a …

This is a story that may finally prove – per screenwriter William Goldman’s indelible line – that nobody knows anything in Hollywood. What this definitely establishes is that television – often a fool’s paradise of predictions, guesswork, spin, hype and outright balderdash – very much remains a place of surprise and even mystery. This is …

NBC News began late last week to make the first cuts as part of its NBCU 2.0 overhaul, laying off about 15 “Dateline NBC” employees. Sources said the cuts were made Thursday and Friday at the NBC News bureaus in New York, Chicago and Washington. It was unclear whether those included on-air personnel. Late last …

NBC News employees are bracing this week as the network news division undergoes a pre-Thanksgiving round of layoffs, part of a corporate-wide restructuring announced last month. In the first phase of job cuts at the network news division, about 40 employees are expected to be given pink slips by Wednesday. The newsmagazine “Dateline” — which …

Dan Rather has gone digital. Dan Rather has gone boutique. Returning to television with “Dan Rather Reports,” his new weekly magazine, he will now be available in just the four million satellite and cable homes reached by media mogul Mark Cuban’s high-definition channel HDNet. By contrast, “The CBS Evening News,” which Rather anchored for 24 …

Sub-Saharan Africa’s first international business news channel, CNBC Africa, will begin officially broadcasting from its Sandton (Johannesburg) headquarters facilities in May 2007, the channel’s chairman Zafar Siddiqi told the media yesterday, Monday 13 November 2006, at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Rosebank, Johannesburg. “This is a milestone in African television broadcasting,” said Siddiqi. Gauteng Premier …