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• ABC, Warner strike deal

  - 2007-09-17

  Four ABC series will stream on the network's website and then be available in reruns through Warner Bros., following an agreement between the television divisions of the two companies. The deal involves new episodes of "Big Shots," "Men in Trees," "Notes from the Underbelly" and "Pushing Daisies." The...

  Tags: ABC Inc., INTERNET, TVs, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

• Band strikes hooley dooley of a deal.

  - 2007-02-21

  Byline: Michael Bodey and Jim Gaines Feb 21, 2007 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian children's group "The Hooley Dooleys" has been revamped following its departure from ABC television in 2006. The group left the national broadcaster and was signed to...

  Tags: ABC Inc., MARKETING, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

• Drama Light.

  - 2007-02-05

  By Ben Grossman Despite hits like 24 and heroes, networks eye funnier fare After years of dramas dominated by dead bodies and angst-ridden detectives, the networks may lighten things up this fall. ...

  Tags: ABC Inc., CBS Corp., Drama, drama, network, NETWORKING, Sarah, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

• Fast Track.(American Broadcasting Companies Inc. prepares for Oscar telecast)(investors help Tribune Co. to remain in play)(Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution renews deal with Telepictures Productions' magazine "Extra")

  - 2007-01-29

  By Staff ABC Boosts Oscar Digital Anne Becker Offerings include mobile and more video By Anne Becker With...

  Tags: ABC Inc., FCC, mobile, Tribune Co., TV, video, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

• TV scribe doubles up: Safran, WBTV park projects at ABC, Fox.(Josh Safran, Warner Bros. Television)

  - 2007-01-02

  Scribe Josh Safran has set up a pair of small-screen projects via Warner Bros. TV, including a collaboration with MeG. At ABC, Safran has an untitled drama in the works about a twenty-something woman who, after initially resisting, decides to join ...

  Tags: ABC Inc., SAFRAN, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

• Nets cross digital divide.(In the News: A LOOK AT THE WEEK ENTERTAINMENT)(American Broadcasting Companies Inc. and National Broadcasting Company Inc. deal with Warner Bros. Television)(Brief article)

  - 2006-09-18

  ABC and NBC have struck separate deals with Warner Bros. TV, allowing the studio's content for those nets to be distributed across a broad range of digital platforms. Multiple networks and studios are also in advanced conversations about download agreements.

  Tags: ABC Inc., In The News Inc., National Broadcasting Company Inc., NBC Universal Inc., Warner Bros Inc., Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

• New media ideas that entertain you: direct marketers lead the charge toward the frontier of the music and video marketplace.(Entertainment Market)

  - 2006-07-01

  Since the end of 2005, it has become almost a weekly occurrence for Response Magazine's weekly E-newsletter, Response This Week, to report breaking news on a new technology or business venture that involves marketing and delivering entertainment content directly to consumers. The...

  Tags: ABC Inc., Apple Inc., DVD, entertainment, MARKETING, movie, music, SALES, TVs, video, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

• The CW

  - 2006-06-19

  Thom Sherman has been named as executive vice president, drama development for The CW, the new network of CBS Inc. and Warner Bros. Entertainment. Sherman previously headed the drama development department at ABC Television.

  Tags: ABC Inc., entertainment, MARKETING, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

• Digital Turf War.(digital-rights deals )

  - 2006-05-22

  By John M. Higgins Studios and networks are still far apart on rights There was something conspicuously missing from the hundreds of millions of dollars in commitments for the upcoming fall season: digital-rights deals between the studios and...

  Tags: ABC Inc., CBS Corp., NBC Universal Inc., network, TVs, Warner Bros Inc., Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

• Flash!(dilemma over Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution's next president)(ABC Inc's services)(news coverage of television channels)

  - 2006-05-08

  Edited by Joel Topcik Dick Robertson's Heirs: Not So Apparent Joel Topcik There's intrigue brewing at the Burbank studios of Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution WBDTD. ...

  Tags: ABC Inc., TV, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.