ION Television scores best and most watched year for 2010

ION Records Best Quarter & Month Ever; Ranks 15th for the Year, the Greatest Gain in Rank Among Cable Entertainment Networks. Only Network to...

Monday bragging rights to NBC and ABC

Led by "The Voice," NBC won the 18-49 crown on Monday, with ABC, led by the season premiere of "Dancing with the Stars," claiming...

Idol strong for Fox

"American Idol" dipped from a year ago, but was still strong enough to give Fox the 18-49 win on Thursday. CBS had the most...

Wheel of Fortune holding #1 spot with 12M+ viewers

Wheel of Fortune (CBS Television Distribution) continues its #1 streak at the top spot of the syndie ratings round-up, averaging more than 12 million...

And we'll have funds, funds, funds under Boucher voucher plan

End of analog TV is now exactly 11 months away. Although many are confident that the current coupon allocation is sufficient, and they may well be correct. But

Stars named for Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade on ABC

Disney Parks has pulled out all the (silver) bells and whistles for the 2010 "Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade" TV special - including performances...

ABC week 28; first time “Dancing with the Stars” finished most-watched

Marking its Strongest Non-“Oscar” Results in 3 Months, ABC is the Only Broadcaster to Grow Year to Year in Viewers and Young Adults.“DWTS” is...

Local TV News Gets Another Digital Platform

With more and more TV viewers embracing "over-the-top" (OTT) choices for entertainment, sports and informational programming, the need for broadcast TV stations to have their original content everywhere is more essential than ever. To help bring this goal to fruition, a New York-based company has unveiled an online and digital platform that aggregates local TV news and, at the same time, enables local broadcasters to build OTT channels on a new app.
LPTV

FCC suspends LPTV Digital Deadline

In a bit of incentive auction common sense rulemaking, the FCC has taken low power television stations off of

‘GREEK’ the Kappa Taus party 40 yr. old pledge, rules are too much

THE KAPPA TAUS PARTY with a 40-year-old pledge, on all new episode of ‘GREEK’. The Hilgendorf family has moved in next door to the...

Week 16: Broadcast 86, Cable 14

Football accounted for all three of the cable/satellite shows that made the top 100 for all of television in the key 18-49 demo for...

CBS dominated premiere week; "Hawaii Five-0" "The Mentalist" most played back

"Hawaii Five-0" and "The Mentalist" most played back shows on DVR of All Time. "Hawaii Five-0" Adds +3.4 Million Viewers and Grows to a...

Paul Johnson dead at 75

KNBC-TV (NBC) Los Angeles reports the death of veteran traffic reporter Paul Johnson. He lost his battle with a brain tumor Tuesday at age...

Broadcasters pick up more spectrum support in House

Members of both parties in Congress want to make sure that any language involving spectrum repurposing in the television band in no way throws broadcasters under the bus. Four House Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats

Arbitron gets MRC blessing for PPM TV data

The Media Rating Council has given Arbitron accreditation for Portable People Meter (PPM) ratings data for television in Houston, where radio data was already...