TV Watch launches new campaign for parents
Timed to coincide with the beginning of a new school year, TV Watch is launching “Parent-to-Parent,” a campaign to raise awareness with parents about...
Housewives premiere down for ABC
Of course NBC won the night's ratings battle with "Sunday Night Football," but the big news was the season premiere of ABC's "Desperate Housewives,"...
NBC begins the new season with an on-air f-bomb
The season premier of “Saturday Night Live” demonstrated that the show is indeed live. An f-bomb was dropped by new cast member Jenny Slate...
Battle continues in Syndicated Television
"Two and a Half Men" moved back to the #1 spot in the latest week, ahead of "Wheel of Fortune." The weekly tally comes...
Dish Network raising $300 million
Here’s another indication that the debt markets are again open for media companies – at least for the very large ones.Dish Network announced that...
The Beautiful Life is dead
The first casualty of the new television season is “The Beautiful Life” (TBL, as it was known) created by Ashton Kutcher and staring Mischa...
Moderates rule at Screen Actors Guild
Having already put a majority on the Screen Actors Guild national board, the moderate Unite For Strength faction has now elected one of its...
TV Networks team for PSA
Stars from ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC are participating in a public service campaign designed to encourage citizens to engage in community service and...
PTC running advertisers off CBS sitcom
Glenn Beck isn’t the only one with a watchdog chasing his advertisers away. The Parents Television Council doesn’t care for CBS’s ‘Two and a Half Men,” and says it has taken 31 sponsors away
Sony puts on full court press for “2012”
On October 1, Sony Pictures Entertainment is going to shoot for 110M viewers, who will see a special two minute promotional piece for soon-to-be-released...
Newlywed Game airs first same-sex couple
The Newlywed Game, hosted by Carnie Wilson, will feature George Takei (“Star Trek’s” Mr. Sulu) and his spouse Brad Altman—the first same-sex couple ever...
CBS can’t survive ABC’s flashy debut
The premiere episode of FlashForward on ABC at 8PM blew away CBS stalwart Survivor Samoa, giving the night to ABC. The other two had...
Trust hard to come by for news outlets
A new survey from The Sacred Heart University Polling Institute echoes a recent Pew study showing that Americans are mistrustful of their news outlets....
Satcasters run into legal difficulties
A pair of Dish Network authorized distributors have been charged by the FCC, and Dish itself implicated, in do-not-call telemarketing violations. And DirecTV is facing court action in California
Trib bondholders looking under the hood
A company representing 18% of Tribune bondholders is looking for evidence that the LBO transferring the company to Sam Zell and others was a...