Peter Chernin ramps up media company with new investors
Former News Corporation COO Peter Chernin has taken on major new investors to make The Chernin Group (TCG) a major international
Leno bests Letterman Friday late
In late-night metered-market households Friday night:
* In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 2.4/6 with an encore...
NBC earns Friday win and tie for win in key demos
Friday Primetime Results:
* NBC tied for #1 for the night in adults 18-49 among ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox in adults 18-49 and was...
Election, Martin shooting dominate the news
Fueled by strong coverage from cable and radio, the presidential election was the number one story for the week of 4/9-4/15, according to the...
CWA asks FCC to stop clock on Verizon spectrum buy
Communications Workers of America says that there is already ample evidence that the deal under which Verizon will acquire spectrum from a consortium of...
Noncoms said to be leery of political ads
The Boston Globe did a small survey of noncommercial broadcast outlets in the wake of the Ninth Circuit Court’s finding that political and issue...
Hollywood TV scripts depict reality of drug use
Fiction writers working on prime time television programs were found by a new study to have a remarkably accurate sense of the state of...
FCC set to take advance online TV public files
The FCC would like to move broadcast public files out of file cabinets in a dusty back room
Wall Street enjoys a Big Mac
McDonald's was among the companies reporting strong earnings on Friday, helping to drive stock prices higher. Wall Street also liked the report from GE,...
“Cornbread Morning Show” producer gets a show on Nickelodeon
92.3 WIL-FM St. Louis’ Judi Diamond – Producer of “The Cornbread Morning Show” – has scored a show on NickMom, the nightly TV block...
102.5 The Bone names full talk lineup
Cox Media Group (CMG) Tampa announced last week that its WHPT-FM 102.5 The Bone Tampa Bay will drop Classic Rock and evolve into the...
AdSafe to integrate media data into Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings
Nielsen and AdSafe Media will integrate AdSafe’s ad safety ratings, contextual analysis and viewability measurement into Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings. Nielsen will use AdSafe...
Twists and turns in the sale of South Bend FM
$816K WHFB-FM South Bend IN (Benton Harbor MI) from WHFB Broadcast Associates LP (G. Woodward Stover II), related to Wincom Communications Inc., to Douglas...
It’s a Gray day for LPTV in Marietta OH
$66K WVEX-LP/WWVX-LP Parkersburg WV (Marietta OH) from Wood Investments LLC (Anthony F. Serreno) to Gray Television Group (Hilton H. Howell Jr., Robert S. Prather...
Gray files for LPTV in 3rd market
WJHG-TV is doing heavy lifting for Gray Television in the Panama City FL DMA, and now Gray is moving to bring it some low...