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VH1’s new executive president has given the thumbs up to several new and continuing celebreality series.
Former 2 Live Crew member Luther Campbell gets his own series, for at least eight eps, called Luke’s Parental Advisory. It’s one of the first offerings under the leadership of Jeff Olde, VH1’s new executive vice president of programming and development.
Comedian Margaret Cho will show up for seven eps of The Cho Show, writes Multichannel News. New iterations of I Love New York and Hogan Knows Best are also slated.
Hulk’s daughter Brooke gets 10 half hours to show the VH1 audience her adventures in Brooke Hogan Knows Best episodes.
In unexpected news VH1 will air some music-related programing including The Night James Brown Saved Boston, which chronicles the Godfather of Soul’s April 1968 Boston concert, the night after Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination. The network will also present Elton John: Me Myself and I, a look at the singer’s legendary career. And Snoop Dogg gets some props March 31 in the latest installment of the Storytellers franchise.
Katz Media Group has added another new client, Lincoln Financial Media, and will sell ad time on the company’s 15 stations beginning immediately.
Katz also added CBS Radio and Entercom last week, picking them off from Interep’s list.
Katz has also…
Last week, Aegis Group CEO Robert Lerwill resigned unexpectedly, sparking speculation that a takeover may be on the horizon.
Lerwill stepped down officially today (Monday), with Aegis chairman John Napier taking over his duties on an interim basis, writes MediaPost. People…
Out-of-home companies are bracing for the recession like everyone else, but they may not feel the sting as badly as other media.
Though the third quarter brought negative growth to the nation’s three largest OOH companies - Clear Channel Outdoor,…
CNN plans to offer newspapers a wire service as an alternative to the Associated Press. CNN, which already runs an internal wire service, will explain its new, expanded service to editors from about 30 papers who are visiting Atlanta this…
Time magazine ousted Cosmo as the top magazine for college students in this year’s Anderson Analytics fall survey.
Time also jumped past People, which was last year’s No. 2, writes Ad Age. A Time spokesperson said the magazine did not run…
Email, news gathering and paying bills continue to be the most widely used online activities among U.S. adults, but downloading TV programs, watching videos and making web phone calls posted the biggest overall growth, according to data from Mediamark Research…
