Saturday, July 4, 2026

‘Real Housewives’ of ‘Orange County’ & ‘New York City’ set ratings record

Bravo's Real Housewives of Orange County and New York City kicked it up a notch last night earning record ratings for both series with...

ABC acquires network TV premiere to ‘The Blind Side’

ABC Family has acquired the network television premiere rights to the Academy Award®-nominated hit film “The Blind Side,” starring Oscar® winner Sandra Bullock, in...

NBC takes beauty pageants for another three years

NBC has renewed its exclusive agreement with Donald Trump and the Miss Universe Organization to broadcast the "Miss Universe" and "Miss USA" pageants on...

NBC renews 30 Rock, The Office, Community

NBC has renewed three more of its Thursday-night comedies - “30 Rock” (9:30-10 p.m. ET), “The Office” (9-9:30 p.m. ET) and the freshman series...

Donovan McNabb and Terrell Owens team up on Spike TV

Donovan McNabb will throw passes to Terrell Owens again – only this time on a basketball court in the new season of Spike TV's...

Big night for ABC

The time zone adjustments still have to be sorted out for the live Oscars broadcast, but it is clear that ABC dominated Sunday night.Sunday...

Media General books big revenue boost from Olympics

The Vancouver Winter Olympics may have been a loss leader for NBC, but Media General says ad sales for the games on its eight NBC affiliates exceeded expectations. We would note also that Media General’s footprint is concentrated

‘Jimmy Kimmel Live: After the Academy Awards’ draws most-watched

ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live: After the Academy Awards” Draws its Most-Watched Post-Oscar Telecast Ever Among All “JKL” Telecasts, “JKL’s” Fifth Post-Oscar Special Attracts the Show’s...

'Oscars’ & ‘Barbara Walters’ post 2nd straight year of gains

ABC’s Broadcast of the “82nd Annual Academy Awards” Qualifies As Television’s Most-Watched Entertainment Telecast Since 2005Posting its 2nd Straight Year of Gains, “Oscars” Surge...

‘CSI: NY’ a double homicide on eve of St. Patrick’s day

"Pot of Gold" — When a double homicide involving two young journalists who are investigating a story about gold fraud occurs on the eve...

‘Criminal Minds’ episode: ‘Solitary Man’ the Bau profiles a killer

After women are abducted from random places, the Bau must profile a truck driver in order to stop him, on ‘Criminal Minds’ this Wednesday."Solitary...

Thursday, ‘Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains’ 1 castaway takes a hard fall

In a grueling physical challenge, one castaway takes a hard fall that results in SERIOUS injury wHICH threatens to take him out of the...

‘Dateline NBC’ #2 Sunday behind Barbara Walters special

From 7-8:30 p.m., "Dateline NBC" averaged a 1.3/4 in 18-49 and 5.8 million viewers overall.  In the 7-8 p.m. hour, "Dateline" is currently #2...

Media watchdogs object to negotiation hostage taking

Members of the watchdog community are not objecting so much to negotiations between cable operators and programmers – but they are objecting to

Conservative watchdog goes after Dems over HCR

The ongoing battle over health care reform continues to provide ample motivation for political groups to open their wallets, and the latest to jump...