CBS sweeps the week
CBS was #1 in viewers for the seventh time in eight weeks, adults 18-49 (tie) and adults 25-54 with nine of the top 10...
ABC finishes in second
Overall: During the week of 11/12/12, ABC finished as the 2nd-most-watched network overall to CBS, outdrawing an NFL-fueled NBC by 1.1 million viewers (+16%)...
Disney Movies Online to shut down
Disney is shutting down its Web movie service, Disney Movies Online, saying the site wasn't keeping up with user demands. In an email to...
WNWS-FM host apologizes for Facebook post
Bill Way, host of "It's Your Turn" on news talker WNWS-FM (Radiocorp of Jackson, Inc.) Jackson, TN is off the air for now after...
Cyber Monday looming large this holiday season
Black Friday will be history. But there will still be about four weeks of shopping time left when Cyber Monday is “observed” 11/26/12. But...
PTC goes after Dodge for Family Guy sponsorship
Parents Television Council says that Fox Sunday night offering Family Guy featured particularly offensive material recently, and that Dodge prominently advertised its Dart on...
Stocking stuffers from Tribune for that special someone
With FCC approval of the transfer of television licenses to the version of Tribune emerging from bankruptcy, and with television-newspaper cross-ownership waivers intact forever...
U Maryland move to Big Ten could mean big cable windfall
The University of Maryland's Board of Directors voted 11/19 to defect from the ACC to the Big Ten. Rutgers will likely do the same....
James upgrading Vermont radio cluster
$710K WIKE-AM & WMOO-FM Montpelier-Barre-St. Johnsbury VT (Newport, Derby Center VT) from Vertical Capital Partners LP (Jeffrey D. Shapiro) to Vermont Broadcast Associates Inc....
South Central donates Nashville LPTV
$238,639 WJDE-LD Nashville TN from South Central Communications Corporation (J.P. Engelbrecht) to Evangel World Prayer Center of Kentucky Inc. (Robert W. Rodgers et al)....
Consumer confidence flies high in November
The latest BIGinsight consumer confidence reading puts it at its highest point since October 2007 – yes, that’s a year before the
EMF says why not Minot
Educational Media Foundation has struck a deal to enter the small North Dakota market of Minot – but they’ll have some work to do...
Stocks rally the most since early September
Stocks surged Monday as increased confidence that a U.S. budget deal would be reached helped lift Wall Street to its best session in more...
Lotus donates $50,000 to LA Boys & Girls Club
Lotus Communications’ KWKW 1330 AM ESPN Deportes Los Angeles recently launched a major partnership with the Los Angeles Boys & Girls Club. When KWKW’s...
NBC was #1 with football
Sunday Results: Currently available fast-affiliate ratings are not time
zone-adjusted and typically understate live NFL telecasts.
In time zone-adjusted metered-market results, the
Ravens-Steelers game was #1 in...