NBC: Leno beats Letterman
Thursday Results (Fox carried NFL football in Nashville and CW carried the game in Pittsburgh): (Due to live coverage of the Vice Presidential Debate,...
“CBS Sunday Morning” was #1
CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD was the #1 Sunday morning news program in households, viewers and adults 25-54, according to Nielsen live plus...
Beasley adds three FMs for WWCN-AM
Beasley Broadcast Southwest Florida has beefed up the reach of its local ESPN sports programming to the FM dial. In addition to WWCN-AM 770,...
Jimmy Kimmel Live grew for fifth straight week
During the first week of October, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live grew for the 5th week in a row in both Total Viewers (+3%) and...
Latest campaign spend in swing states
While North Carolina would seem the swing state President Obama is least likely to win, his campaign is still holding spend steady there. Obama's...
Daren Streblow Comedy Show hits 50 affiliates
Renowned Nashville comic Daren Streblow is celebrating his one year anniversary on the air. Over the course of this year, the show has grown...
Internet ad revenues rise $17 billion in first half
In the first half of 2012, internet advertising revenues climbed to an all-time high of $17 billion, a 14% increase YOY, according to the...
Latest Verizon FiOS subscriber numbers in NYC DMA
While everyone is focused on the political dollars & the windfall from it, Verizon FIOS just keeps chipping away at the incumbents Time Warner...
Cumulus Media to drop ESPN on 47 stations
As Cumulus COO John Dickey told us, he will be moving their new syndicated product, CBS Sports Radio, to as many stations as possible...
Broadcast stocks slightly elevated on overall flat day
Stock prices are expected to be on a short leash until the election – going up and down but not far in either direction....
Penske to Variety: Tear down this paywall!
Deadline.com’s Jay Penske is the new guiding force at venerable Hollywood trade publication family Variety, and one of his first acts will be to...
2013 Survival as easy as ABC for Modern Family
Ratings reporting source TVbytheNumbers has released its odds-of-survival predictions for 11 programs on the ABC schedule – and sad to say, one of them...
Advertising growth not as robust as anticipated
Barclay Capital analyst Anthony DiClemente sees resilience in the advertising media, but that is not enough to prevent him from lowering estimates for overall...
Coca-Cola to buy stake in Spotify
The beverage giant is in talks to buy a stake in fast-growing digital music company Spotify, reports Sky News in the U.K. Coke is...
Fox wins Wed in 18-49
FOX won Wednesday night among Adults 18-49, Adults 18-34 and Teens. To date, FOX has won every Wednesday night since THE X FACTOR premiered...