TV Guide

Keeping Up with the Lings - Posted October 11, 2010
While the daily lives of Sacramento born globe-trotting sisters Lisa Ling and Laura Ling would make for a potent reality TV show in the style of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, E! Entertainment has decided to go in a different direction in this case, hiring on Laura as exclusive new host... [FishbowlLA]

TV Guide, Facebook Getting Ready to Check In - Posted September 27, 2010
TV Guide will check in to the TV-show check-in game in October, when it will launch a feature using Facebook technology to allow users to click a button and post what shows they're watching or plan to watch on social networks, ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Paste Magazine Thrives Through Belt-Tightening - Posted January 12, 2010
While giant publishers with seemingly limitless budgets were forced to reassess their finances and even shutter publications over the last two years, a small, 8-year-old music magazine has been quietly expanding through innovative solutions to its cost problem. Paste... [FishbowlNY]

Content Chief Anthea Disney Leaves News Corp. - Posted December 11, 2009
Anthea Disney, News Corp.'s EVP for content, will retire at the end of this month, the company said today. After leaving ... [FishbowlNY]

Layoffs At TV Guide Include Publisher - Posted October 2, 2009
TV Guide cut a handful of staffers yesterday, including publisher Pete Haeffner, according t... [FishbowlNY]

Reporter Who Left Journalism Returns|TV Guide Shrinks|Carine Roitfeld's Movie Dreams|WSJ Wins Softball Title|Good Housekeeping's Green Seal Investigated - Posted September 14, 2009
New York Times: ... [FishbowlNY]

BusinessWeek Update: There Are Interested Parties - Posted July 23, 2009
BusinessWeek media columnist Jon Fine has some excellent insight into the progress of... [FishbowlNY]

The Printed Blog Stops Printing|Gannett Names New Communciations VP|Newspaper Ad Fail|Kliger Joins TV Guide|Bercovici Not Working For Mediaite -- Now He's Ranked 152 - Posted July 7, 2009
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Econ... [FishbowlNY]

Publisher Meredith Gets New Consumer Mag President - Posted July 7, 2009
Magazine publisher Meredith Corp. today promoted Chief Revenue Officer Tom Harty to president overseeing the house's consumer magazines. He will retain his CRO title as well as the position of executive ... [FishbowlNY]

Magazines Remembering Michael Hit Newsstands - Posted June 29, 2009
Forget Jon & Kate, Michael Jackson's death may be the latest event to help resuscitate the faltering magazine industry. After news of his death broke on Thursday afternoon, magazines rushed to honor the pop star. Today, ... [FishbowlNY]

Lunch: A Heaping Helping of The Usual Suspects - Posted March 4, 2009
— DIANE CLEHANE It's a lo-cal edition of 'Lunch' today. After all, you can't expect to indulge in a diet rich in celebs and boldface names every week. We've spoiled you, I know. (By the way, if you're looking to chat with some big-time media mavens and news makers, don't miss the... [FishbowlNY]

FBLA Exclusive: Samantha Harris Would Welcome Paula Abdul - Posted April 28, 2008
TV Guide talks with Dancing With The Stars judges Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba about whether P... [FishbowlLA]

This Just In: Men Like The Same Shows Girls Do. But For Different Reasons - Posted March 10, 2008
It took TV Guide and Spike TV money, time and marketing research effort to figure out what Desperate Housewives casting agents knew instinctively (and Sex and the City agents did not): Men will watch chick shows if the chicks on those shows are suffici... [FishbowlLA]

TV Guide Network Underperforms, No One Surprised - Posted December 10, 2007
MediaPost's Wayne Friedman suggests the TV Guide Network needs a bigger picture. Macrovision is buying the Gemstar assets, including TV Guide magazine, website and the ... [FishbowlLA]

What the Candidates Watch - Posted November 26, 2007
TV Guide surveys the Presidential hopefuls and finds out that they watch TV. Hillary Clinton is a fan of HGTV makeover shows, Grey's Anatomy, American Idol, and Dancing with the Stars, but her all-time TV favorite is The Ed Sullivan Show. And she lies like a rug. Barack Ob... [FishbowlLA]

WGA Strike Snippets of News - Posted November 5, 2007
The WGA members seem to be worried about their public image. Maybe if they start the picket lines before 9 (like when the Teamsters go to work), the strikers might be taken m... [FishbowlLA]

Watch the Box: Transformations - Posted October 16, 2007
HowStuffWorks.com was acquired by Discovery for $250 million, and is supposed to be "quickly incorporated into programming". Owners of the site include investor Carl Icahn, and was founded in 1998 by the aptly named Marshall Brain. Will Smith's Overbrook Enterta... [FishbowlLA]

Trade Round-Up: Sept. 13, 2007 - Posted September 13, 2007
Spielberg's Talisman on Hold at TNT THR talks about Steven Spielberg's The Talisman in today's paper, telling its readers that the adaptation of the Stephen King, Peter Straub novel has hit a ... [FishbowlLA]

Legend Lines Up For TV Guide Bash - Posted September 6, 2007
Okay, so it's not the Oscars but Emmy night is still one of Tinseltown's biggest post-awards party nights. And the race is on to see who will get the prize for best bash on Sept. 16. TV Guide is tossing its hat into the ring with a Les Deux-set soiree that will... [FishbowlLA]

TV Guide Channel Changes Plastic Surgery Victims: Rinna In, Rivers Out - Posted April 19, 2007
TV Guide has dropped Joan Rivers and daughter Melissa in favor of Lisa Rinna and her lips. Rinna will take her first walk down the red ... [FishbowlLA]

At Least They Waited Until She Was Buried - Posted April 3, 2007
TV Guide blogs about Law & Order: Criminal Intent's May 8 episode, in which new mom Kristy Swanson plays a "voluptuous, ill-fated drug-abusing model/rich guy s widow/new mom (whose older son is found dead)." Sorry, ... [FishbowlLA]

In The Trades: Dolls, Idols, - Posted February 21, 2007
HBO and American Girl have made a deal to develop films, series, specials and documentaries, based on the American Girl dolls. Better idea would be dolls based on HBO products: G-String Divas, The Sopranos or ... [FishbowlLA]