PTC renews its action against

The Parents Television Council considers the title of the new CBS sitcom to be profane, and it warned earlier that it would not take its presence on the schedule lying down. PTC is now enlisting its membership to go to work on advertisers

Belo, Time Warner approach retransmission endgame

The deadline for reaching a new deal for carriage rights of 12 Belo broadcast television stations on Time Warner Cable is Saturday 9/25/10 –...

CBS's premier: 'Hawaii Five-O' dominated 10pm Monday

'Hawaii Five-0' and 'Mike & Molly' are the top two new programs in viewers an adults 18-49 on highly competitive premiere Monday.Premiere of HAWAII...

Fox seventh season-premiere of 'House' second place

The season premiere of HOUSE posted a 4.1/11 and was the highest rated drama of the night among Adults 18-49 and Adults 18-34HOUSE outperformed...

Monday Late-Night 'David Letterman' inches out 'Jay Leno'

In Late-Night Metered Markets Monday night:  In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 2.8/7; CBS's "Late Show...

NBC's mix Monday, new drama 'The Event' took 3rd place

At 9 p.m. ET, the premiere of "The Event" (3.6/9 in 18-49, 10.9 million viewers overall) matched NBC's highest non-Olympic 18-49 rating in the...

ABC wins opening night of the 2010-11 TV Season

ABC won the opening night of the 2010-11 TV Season in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49, leading second-place CBS by 5.8 million viewers and...

Internet company sues for right to retransmit TV programming

Start-up ivi TV launched last week, offering to deliver 27 broadcast TV channels via broadband Internet to subscribers for $4.99 per month. The

NFL Football wins Sunday for NBC

That's a headline we can likely reuse week after week. CBS claimed second place, due in no small part to its own NFL game...

TV coming full circle: Scripted sitcom about a reality show

A group of writers with a set of hot resumes has come together to pen the pilot of a new sitcom offering – “A$PEN...

Sinclair sees Q3 at low end of guidance

Sinclair Broadcast Group has updated its guidance to Wall Street, saying Q3 net broadcast revenues will be at the low end of the guidance...

FOX Sunday encores 'The Simpsons' 'Family Guy' take third place

Last night FOX aired encores of THE SIMPSONS at 7p (1.1/3 with minimal football over-run included), 7:30p (1.4/4) and 8p (2.2/6) followed by encores...

NBC Sunday Night Football, 'Manning Bowl II' ratings winner

15.2 is 5th Best SNF Overnight EverRating Peaked at 17.0 at 9 p.m. ET SNF Again is No. 1 Broadcast of Sunday Night. Despite last night's Colts 38-14 blowout over the Giants in "Manning Bowl II," "Sunday Night Football's" overnight rating was still three percent above

Analyst: Over-the-top video won

Predictions that many consumers will drop cable and satellite TV in favor of over-the-top (OTT) video services like Apple TV and Google TV are being

WNBA Finals

For the second straight year, the audience for the WNBA Finals increased as the Seattle Storm swept the Atlanta Dream in three close games. ...