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LOS ANGELES: Lifetime has launched Broad Focus, a major campaign meant to offer females additional opportunities to write, develop, produce and direct programming for the channel. The purpose of Broad Focus is to encourage and cultivate women's talent in media, find content leaders who are creating the best female-focused stories …

LOS ANGELES: In a first for the Survivor franchise, fans of the long-running reality competition will choose the 20 castaways who will compete on the next season. Viewers will get to pick from 32 former players, from seasons 1 to 30, who have never won the game and are looking …

NEW YORK: CBS Corporation reported revenues of $3.50 billion for the first quarter of 2015, down from the $3.57 billion posted in the year-ago period, impacted by lower ad revenues at the company's local broadcasting segment. Operating income was $702 million for Q1 2015, compared with $791 million for the …

NEW YORK: The New York chapter of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has appointed Julie La'Bassiere as CEO and Lisa Harrison as chief operating officer, effective June 1. La'Bassiere has served as a top-level marketing exec for a variety of distributors, brands, content creators and film …

NEW YORK: The comedy-horror series Scream Queens is anchoring an all-new Tuesday night lineup on FOX's 2015-16 prime-time schedule, which sees Gotham paired with the futuristic drama Minority Report on Mondays. Gotham holds on to its Monday 8 p.m. slot, giving a lead-in to the freshman drama Minority Report, based …

NEW YORK: NBC's newly unveiled 2015-16 prime-time schedule features a drama-heavy lineup, including the Heroes revival Heroes Reborn leading off the all-important Thursday night roster. Mondays will see the return of The Voice in the 8 p.m. hour, giving a lead-in to the new mystery/drama Blindspot from Greg Berlanti. The …

LONDON: The top 10 pay-TV services in the U.S. collectively gained 54,800 digital television subscribers in the first quarter of 2015, according to the latest Multiscreen Index from informitv. The combined subscriber counts show an improvement on the loss of 232,100 over the previous three quarters. Verizon made the greatest …

PHILADELPHIA: Michael J. Cavanagh has been named senior executive VP and chief financial officer at Comcast Corporation. He will join Comcast early this summer from The Carlyle Group, where he served as its co-president and co-chief operating officer in New York. Prior to Carlyle, Cavanagh spent almost ten years as …

NEW YORK: Verizon Communications has entered into an agreement to purchase AOL for an estimated total value of $4.4 billion. The transaction will take the form of a tender offer followed by a merger, with AOL becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon upon completion. Tim Armstrong, AOL chairman and …

LOS ANGELES: David Lyle, formerly the CEO of National Geographic Channel, has been appointed president of the newly formed producers trade association PactUS. Pact has been present in the U.K. for more than a decade, representing the commercial interests of independent TV and content production companies in the U.K. As …