Tom Umstead focuses on TV programming in his column. en-us http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180.html?nid=3430 Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use July 24, 2008 http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/430030043.html?nid=3430 Most people today know George Foreman as the fatherly and charming grill salesman that stars in TV Land's new reality series Family For... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/1190028919.html?nid=3430 BET hit numerous high notes last night during its annual BET Awards presentation. Too bad one of them wasn't from a viewership... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/1400027940.html?nid=3430 Summer doesn't officially begin for another three weeks, but for the broadcast networks school is already out and vacation has begun. When net... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/120026412.html?nid=3430 Apple recently took another step toward its goal of total consumer-entertainment dominance when it struck deals to offer major Hollywood studio m... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/1730025773.html?nid=3430 The magical, sanitized ride of Disney Channel's billion dollar baby Miley Cyrus came to a crashing halt this past weekend when semi-nud... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/1380024338.html?nid=3430 Fuse may have been on to something after all. The music network’s Pants-Off Dance-Off show was labeled the “dumbes... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/1000023500.html?nid=3430 Turner Network Television has a gem of a NBA telecast tomorrow (March 18) when the Houston Rockets look to continue it’s incredible 22-game... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/50023205.html?nid=3430 For Cablevision Systems subscribers, last week’s introduction of free video on demand from Scripps Networks’ Food Network and HGTV look... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/910022891.html?nid=3430 Showtime’s March 1 boxing telecast featuring Rafael Marquez and Israel Vazquez was a delight for ring sports enthusiasts. The figh... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/1290022529.html?nid=3430 Earlier this month the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) handed out its annual Image Awards celebrat... NAACP http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/1040022304.html?nid=3430 Can you name the most-watched show on cable thus far in 2008? Hillary and Barack tossing verbal jabs at each other on the debate stage? Floyd Mayw... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/400021040.html?nid=3430 Who says crime doesn’t pay? Not Discovery Communications. This past Sunday (Jan. 27) the company placed the spotlight on investigative a... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/1000019700.html?nid=3430 Nine weeks have gone by since television writers walked off the set of 24, Desperate Housewives, Army Wives and other big-name broadcast and cable ... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/1570019157.html?nid=3430 Jamie Lynn Spears delivered kids-targeted Nickelodeon a nice and unexpected early Christmas gift yesterday with the news that she’s in a fami... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/1970018397.html?nid=3430 While not as polished as the slick production finales viewers are used to from American Idol, Black Entertainment Television put on its &ld... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/1310018331.html?nid=3430 With Christmas still several weeks away, it’s probably too early to take a nostalgic look back at 2007. Even so, it’s hard to ignore th... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/860017486.html?nid=3430 Jerry Jones is on a mission. As head of the National Football League’s NFL Network Committee and the owner of the league’s Dallas Cowbo... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/1190017519.html?nid=3430 MCN: The NFL Network is currently fighting with Comcast over the MSO’s switch of the network from basic to its sports tier. Are you confident... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/540017254.html?nid=3430 One week into the television writers' strike and already some people are calling it the death knell for traditional TV viewing — with the blo... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/1630016163.html?nid=3430 A recent survey of Internet users should give television executives and producers some pause as to how consumers will access their content in the n... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/1550015555.html?nid=3430 If you’re a fight promoter without access to the marketing punch of HBO or Showtime, what’s the best way to get your message o... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/780015078.html?nid=3430 It seems that high-definition TV technology is once again getting front-page treatment in many cable trades, as cable networks and platform distrib... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/1710014571.html?nid=3430 After dropping the ball last week, DirecTV made a very nice recovery yesterday with its Internet-based, NFL Sunday Ticket live-game offering. And ... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/250014425.html?nid=3430 The past May Comcast Cable thought they had caught lightning in a bottle. On the heels of announcing its plans to launch a new regional sports netw... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1800000180/post/300014230.html?nid=3430 DirecTV certainly fumbled the ball in the first week of its web-based offering of the NFL Sunday Ticket live game package. The much-anticipated ne...