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ABC has chopped Men in Trees from its schedule, deciding not to renew the hour-long comedy that has seen six different time slots in its two-year run.
The show had a fiercely loyal following among women 18-49, but failed to get much traction in ratings, even after a lengthy run in the post Grey’s Anatomy slot, writes Media Life.
Most recently, the show aired on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. It averaged a 1.6 rating this season, just half of the 3.2 it averaged last season. The show will air its final episodes over the summer, following May sweeps.
ABC is expected to snare Scrubs from NBC and may also pick up The New Adventures of Old Christine if CBS chooses not to renew. Those two shows have solid ratings and would give the network an hour of established sitcoms, which ABC has been trying to nail down in recent years.
Broadcasting company Radio One has struck a deal to sell ads on hip-hop news site AllHipHop.com.
The agreement spans five years and gives Interactive One, Radio One’s digital division, exclusive access to AllHipHop’s ad inventory, writes MarketingVox. AllHipHop boasts five million…
Tribune Co.’s sale of Newsday to Cablevision allows Tribune and its new chairman, Sam Zell, to put $600 million in expected cash proceeds toward its roughly $13 billion debt. This buys Tribune Co. more time to implement plans to turn…
Apple’s new model of the iPhone, which will provide 3G access and faster data connection speeds, is imminent, if the shortage of the current model means anything.
Apple’s website announced yesterday that the company is out of stock on previous…
NBC’s unusual upfront garnered mixed reviews from the media crowd; some blamed the network for using the new format to draw attention away from a weak programming slate, while others liked the innovative format.
Yesterday’s upfront event drew advertisers through…
Sirius losses shrunk in the first quarter, while XM’s losses widened, the companies announced yesterday, in what they hope will be their last quarterly financial reports as stand-alone companies.
Sirius’s loss of $104 million was an improvement over last year’s…
Budget Travel magazine is allowing readers to frolic through its pages in a whole new way: nearly all of the text and photography of the June issue was generated by readers.
The magazine pulled in 2,800 pitches, for a final…
