'Bachelor Pad's' Outspoken Krisily Feels "Lied to" by Dave
I had the chance to speak with Krisily Kennedy this week on a conference call, the latest rejectee of the Bachelor Pad with a...
NBC repeat Thursday line-up finished fourth-place
From 8-8:30 p.m. ET, an encore telecast of "Community" averaged a 0.8/3 and 2.3 million viewers overall. Ratings were impacted by several preemptions for...
Breaking: Kara DioGuardi leaves "American Idol"
Kara DioGuardi will not be back as a judge for the next season of "American Idol" on Fox. The news, which was not unexpected,...
ABC Family gets the right to Puff
Basic cable outlet ABC Family has a piece of its 25 Days of Christmas annual event in place, with acquisition to the rights for...
Big night for "Big Brother"
CBS claimed ratings honors on Thursday night, powered by "Big Brother", but with reruns of "CSI" and "The Mentalist" also winning their time slots.Thursday...
40% of new TV households are Hispanic
As the US Hispanic population continues to grow at a faster rate than the overall population, The Nielsen Company’s estimate of US television households...
Syndication lead changes
We can't use a "Judge Judy" headline this week. She's been displaced from the #1 spot by "Two and a Half Men." The chart...
FCC planning to move on television white spaces
The tentative agenda for the next FCC open meeting, on the calendar for Thursday 9/23/10, includes a Second Memorandum Opinion and Order on procedures to allow unlicensed devices
Democratic governors lodge complaint against Fox in Ohio
The Democratic Governors Association has filed a formal complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission charging Fox News Network with making an “apparently illegal” like-kind...
Fox Thursday repeats with 'Bones' takes third-place
FOX aired encores of BONES at 8p (1.6/5) and FRINGE at 9p (1.4/4) last night. CompetitionABC ran a repeat Wipeout (1.8/6) at 8p, followed by...
Ted Whittaker dead at 80
Broadcast Pix announced that Ted Whittaker, a co-founder of the company, recently died suddenly. He was 80 years old and spent more than 50...
Disney, Time Warner come to a carriage accord
Two media giants managed to come to terms less than 24 hours past the expiration of the previous contract with no disruption of service. Disney has both ABC O&O broadcast television stations and high-value basic cable offerings such as ESPN.
Breaking: Disney/ABC and Time Warner cut long term deal
Agreement Includes Several New Services for Subscribers, Including Disney Junior, ESPN3.com, ESPN Goal Line, ESPN Buzzer Beater and Expanded VOD Offerings. Disney/ABC Television Group,...
Collapse of Mediacom buyout gets it off Fitch list
The bid by Mediacom founder and CEO Rocco Commisso had landed the company’s debt ratings on the “Rating Watch negative” list at Fitch ratings....
EstrellaTV inks national distribution deal with U-verse
Liberman Broadcasting Inc. (LBI Media) announced a national distribution deal for its EstrellaTV Hispanic network with AT&T U-verse. Effective immediately, EstrellaTV will be available...