Week 3: Broadcast 91; Cable 9
ESPN is once again in the Top 10 for all of television with "Monday Night Football" for the third week of the 2008-2009 season....
Americans unprepared for DTV
With only four months to go until analog television is shut off, Nielsen research shows millions of US households are still completely unprepared for the DTV transition. More than nine million would be unable
Classless Class A act?
A number of members of the Class A television community made it to Nashville for yesterday’s historic FCC vote which would have possibly put them on the road to must-carry status, only to find
Two in a row for CBS
The season premiere of "CSI" helped power CBS to another weekly ratings victory in both Households and the coveted 18-49 demo. The ninth season...
Granite serving up caffeine in the Bay Area
Street teams from Granite’s San Francisco station are distributing cups of “KOFY Coffee” as the station returns to its original call letters and rebrands...
Two killed in news copter crash
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating why a helicopter shooting video for ABC O&O KTRK-TV Houston crashed without warning Monday. The chopper was...
NBC Local Media lives up to its name
The Peacock Network’s O&O station group is launching new websites targeting “Locals Only” with news, entertainment and information. The first has launched in Chicago,...
Class A vote pulled
A proposal to grant cable must-carry status to Class A television stations has disappeared from today’s FCC Open Meeting. There are multiple possibilities, among them that the statistical underpinnings
NBCU Cable had record-breaking Q3
The cable networks of NBC Universal – Bravo, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, Sci Fi and USA – all broke ratings records in Q3. Year over...
The Africa Channel clears Central Oregon
The Africa Channel, the U.S.-based television network showcasing the rich and diverse perspectives of Africa’s people, made its official launch in Central Oregon serving...
Sinclair slips in past revised expectations
When television group Sinclair released revised expectations for Q3 2008 back on 9/22/08, it was expecting it to be flat with the same quarter...
FCC backs programmers in carriage disputes
Three cable programming services have convinced the FCC that they have prima facie evidence on discrimination from various cable system operators, and in all three cases the Comission has referred
NAB warns Congress of spectrum interlopers
Why not open the cracks between television stations to unlicensed spectrum devices? The National Association of Broadcasters and the Association for
ACA tries to leverage LIN situation
Testy retransmission negotiations between LIN Television and Time Warner cable have inspired the American Cable Association to try to link negotiations in general to...
Shades of Ross Perot
It’s not unusual for a political campaign to buy a spot with a length measured by the number 30, but generally, the colon comes...