Disney hunk Corbin Bleu (the "High School Musical" franchise) and
reality comp vet Nicole Scherzinger ("Popstars" contestant and member
of Eden's Crush group formed by show, "Search for the Next Pussycat
Doll" judge, "Dancing" contestant and "SingOff" judge) will host "X
Factor," joining the judges panel of Simon Cowell, music biz
multihyphenate LA Reid, Brit pop tart Cheryl Cole and Crazy Paula:http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/04/28/corbin-bleu-nicole-scherzinger-in-talks-to-host-x-factor/ NotTV: CBS-aligned radio syndicator Westwood One sells its Metro Traffic unit, which provides traffic reports and other news services to radio and TV stations as Metro and Shadow Traffic (and in southern California, the iconic Sigalert), to Clear Channel (who will fold it into its current Total Traffic Network service) for $119M--they purchased Metro in 1999 for $1.2B: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9MTHFL00.htm Meredith Vieira is leaving "Today" in June, with Ann Curry replacing her as expected and Natalie Morales ("Ms. Information" on "The Marriage Ref") replacing Curry as news anchor--Meredith will continue to host "Millionaire": http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/meredith-vieira-leave-today-show-183335 And Disney-ABC vet Mark Pedowitz is replacing Dawn Ostroff as president of the troublesome CW--Ostroff was castigated by Internet fanboiz for downplaying SF and fantasy series in favor of female- skewing soaps, wrestling fans for letting "SmackDown!" go to MyTV (it's now on SyFy) and fans of "The Game" for canceling that series as part of dropping all sitcoms from the schedule (revived, it's now garnering the highest ratings BET has ever had): http://www.adweek.com/news/television/mark-pedowitz-named-president-cw-131138 One wonders if Pedowitz will try to get Little Green out of the ratings cellar or if CBS and Time Warner are happy with the young- female-demo skew of the network. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
