AOL has inked a cross-promotional deal with Telepictures Productions, which produces the Ellen DeGeneres Show. As part of the deal AOL will on Tuesday (Sept. 7) begin promoting the Ellen show’s Web site on several of its relevant lifestyle channels, ranging from AOL Television to KitchenDaily.com to PopEater.  Read More →

Former Reactrix president Susan Danaher was named president of the Digital Place-based Advertising Association (formerly called the Out of Home Video Advertising Bureau), the association founded in 2006 to help grow the emerging digital out-of-home medium.  Read More →

In the new FX series Terriers, San Diego is the setting for this offbeat detective drama. Or comedy. Or maybe both.  Read More →

That new deal provides millions of Time Warner Cable subscribers with access to ESPN3’s 3,500 hours of live programming each year, as well as an expanded amount of video on demand content.  Read More →

After weeks of intense negotiations and some spirited public jousting, Walt Disney Co. and Time Warner Cable have hashed out a new carriage agreement covering a roster of high-profile networks that includes ABC, ESPN and Disney Channel.  Read More →

Two years after Disney Channel spawned one of its most-watched original movies in the Jonas Brothers/Demi Lovato musical Camp Rock, the Mouse is set to unleash the sequel. And while it doesn’t carry a full complement of ad inventory, Disney Channel has lined up four marquee cross-platform sponsorships for the premiere, cutting deals with Honda, Verizon FiOS, Best Western International and Sara  Read More →

Evolve Media Corp. has launched Momtastic, a new women-aimed Web portal, which blends original editorial and blogger-produced content from various mom blogs.  Read More →

Richard Kelley was promoted Thursday (Sept. 2) to president and general manager for KNSD, the NBC-owned station in San Diego. He was most recently vp of sales for KNTV, the company’s owned-and-operated NBC station in San Francisco.  Read More →

Google and AOL have agreed to stay search partners for the next five years. The two company’s announced on Thursday (Sept. 2) a five-year renewal of their search ad partnership, which was initiated in 2002. Google will continue to power AOL’s natural and paid search results, with the two companies sharing in the associated ad revenue.  Read More →

St. Louis Cardinals games will be back on KMOX-AM starting with the 2011 baseball season, CBS Radio announced Wednesday (Sept. 1).  Read More →

On the FX series Sons of Anarchy, Season 3 picks up precisely where Season 2 left off: the kidnapping of Jax’s infant son.  Read More →

AT&T U-verse pulled the plug on the Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel at midnight Wednesday (Sept. 1) after the two companies were unable to reach a new carriage agreement. About 2.3 million in 122 markets were affected.  Read More →

Tribune filled its general manager vacancy at WPIX Wednesday (Sept. 1), naming Eric Meyrowitz vp and general manager of the New York CW affiliate.  Read More →

Police have shot and killed the gunman who on Wednesday afternoon took three hostages at Discovery Communications’ Silver Spring, MD, headquarters.  Read More →

The company also unveiled a new version of Apple TV for $99, along with a TV show rental service. Initially, ABC and Fox have agreed to rent individual episodes of their series for 99 cents each  Read More →