By Cynthia Littleton -- Daily Variety -- Broadcasting & Cable, 7/8/2009 12:03:43 AM
Liz Lemon has reason to celebrate: NBC's "30 Rock" has nabbed megabucks in off-network sales to Comedy Central and WGN America.
The Universal Media Studios laffer starring Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin was said to have fetched an impressive fee of about $800,000 per episode in total from separate deals with Viacom-owned Comedy Central and Tribune-owned WGN. Both outlets will begin airing the episodes as a Monday-Friday strip in fall 2011.
MSNBC launches in high definition June 29 following major overhauls to its New York City control room and Washington D.C. studio. View images of the new control room and screenshots of the new HD picture for dayside programming. (Photos courtesy of NBC Universal)
In this week's edition of B&C Tech Talk, senior editor Glen Dickson talks about the impending conclusion to a multi-year effort by broadcasters, transmission vendors and consumer electronics manufacturers to create a technical standard for transmitting DTV signals to mobile devices.
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