Confidence in television news drops to new low
Americans' confidence in television news is at a new low by one percentage point, with 21% of adults expressing a great deal or quite...
Don Cornelius to be inducted into IBA Hall of Fame
The late Don Cornelius will be inducted into the Illinois Broadcasters Association’s Hall of Fame exactly 42 years to the date (August 17, 1970)...
Stocks down on Europe, corporate warnings
Stocks extended declines into a fourth session Tuesday as investors dumped companies -- particularly industrials and other cyclical stocks -- on a spate of...
Retrans impasse: Basic cable/satellite edition
There is a very good chance that as of midnight tonight (it’s 7/10/12), 26 Viacom basic cable channels will disappear from the DirecTV lineup...
American Biker Minute presents 10 Days of Sturgis
his August, affiliates can ride along with Envision Radio Networks’ American Biker Minute as host Jeff Ryan it rolls into South Dakota for the...
Bell Media files to launch RDS Radio 990 in Montreal
Bell Media in Canada has filed an application with the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) expressing its intention to convert TSN Radio 990 to...
Hearst pulls the plug on Time Warner Cable
After extending talks beyond the original expiration of their retransmission consent contract with Time Warner Cable on 7/1, all Hearst O&O stations except one...
NBC #2 for the week
Monday Results: From 8-9 p.m. ET, "Fear Factor" averaged a 1.3 rating, 4 share in adults 18-49 and 4.0 million viewers overall. From its...
ABC delivered 4 of the Top 20
Overall: During the week of 7/2/12, ABC delivered 4 of the Top 20 most-watched television shows overall: The Bachelorette – #8, 20/20 – #13,...
Food, baseball propel Fox to Independence week win
Thanks to strong performances by HELL’S KITCHEN, MASTERCHEF and FOX SATURDAY BASEBALL, FOX won the Independence Day holiday week among Adults 18-49. Overall, last...
Spectrum is dominant topic at FCC
There is no question that getting spectrum into the hands of broadband providers is the primary objective at the FCC right now – it...
FCC licensee diversity, sunsetting discussed on the Hill
All five FCC commissioners told members of the House Communications Subcommittee that the Commission was working on efforts to encourage more minority and female...
Genachowski confirms FCC role in retrans is limited
A number of television topics were raised during the House Communications Subcommittee FCC Oversight hearing. Incentive auctions were a big topic, but the highlight...
Cumulus, EMF engineer a purchase/swap deal
Educational Media Foundation is buying a Cumulus FM in the Mobile market, and swapping a Mobile FM to Cumulus in a straight-up swap for...
Broadcast radio forgotten during committee give and take
Sometimes being ignored by the powers that be in Washington is a good thing, and if that’s true, then the House Communications Subcommittee hearing...