Filmmaker Spike Lee has sued Viacom Inc. over plans to rename its TNN cable channel Spike TV as part of its campaign to attract male viewers. In court papers filed Tuesday, Lee asked for an injunction ...

The next big pop comes Monday for the National Network, the cable outlet formerly known as the country-flavored Nashville Network. TNN’s catchphrase, “We’ve Got Pop!” is a nod toward the popular ...

Martha Lauzen is a professor in the School of Communication at San Diego State. She conducts annual studies of women working on screen and behind the scenes in film and television. Pity the deprived ...

Spike is no longer just the name of a famous film director or a volleyball move. Now it's the name of a cable network, too. Struggling TNN - which just two years ago changed from The Nashville Network ...

Viacom-owned cable network the National Network is getting new leadership and a new target audience: men. Albie Hecht, president of film and TV entertainment at Nickelodeon and TNN, will assume the ...

NEW YORK — The National Network (TNN) stunned observers throughout the cable industry last year when it ponied up a stratospheric $365 million to Paramount for exclusive rights to the reruns of three ...

Viacom’s TNN, which used to call itself “America’s first pop network,” has a new billing — “television’s first entertainment network for men” –and a new president, Albie Hecht. “We’re planning to do ...

The Nashville Network welcomed its latest affiliate WBMM – Montgomery-Selma, AL (DMA 118). WBMM, owned and operated by Alabama Telecasters, Inc./Bahakel Communications, will begin broadcasting Luken ...