WFXS-TV transmitter knocked off air
Davis Television’s WFXS-TV Wausau, WI (FOX) had a major failure of a piece of their transmission line that takes the signal from the transmitter...
More support for Martin's Class A act
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is getting rave reviews from the low power television community. And why wouldn’t he? It is no surprise at all that his proposal to grant cable must-carry status to Class A television stations is getting rave reviews
LIN stations pulled from Time Warner Cable
Last night’s midnight deadline came without agreement on a new retransmission consent agreement, so LIN TV stations in 11 markets have been removed from...
Senator steps up to extend analog past deadline
Mirroring a bill introduced in the House of Representatives last week by Lois Capps (D-CA), John D. Rockefeller (D-WV) has a Senate offering in the hopper that would provide for analog television
Rosie’s puttin’ on a show
NBC announced a primetime special to air the night before Thanksgiving – “Rosie’s Variety Show,” bringing Rosie O’Donnell back to television. The live special...
Fox orders full season of “Fringe”
Fox has ordered an additional nine episodes of the thriller Fringe, bringing the series to a full season order, it was announced by Kevin...
SAG negotiators want strike vote
Frustrated by the refusal of the TV and movie studios to return to the bargaining table, the negotiating committee of the Screen Actors Guild has asked the union’s national board to order
Who will rule the new season?
"Judge Judy" closed out the 2007-2008 television season with another weekly win in syndicated TV. As has been the case so often of late,...
TV audience spiked for House bailout vote
Cable news channels drew lots of extra viewers on Monday for the US House of Representatives vote on a proposed $700 billion bailout for...
Gannett on S&P Credit Watch
Gannett CEO Craig Dubow issued a statement that the company’s “underlying fundamentals remain strong” after Standard & Poor’s Ratings Service placed Gannett’s credit ratings...
Playing hurt
Thursday’s highly anticipated rhetorical match-up between Sarah Palin (R-AK) and Joe Biden (D-DE) is scheduled to be hosted by PBS veteran newser Gwen Ifill....
NTIA pushing early box adoption
Meredith Atwell Baker of NTIA is charged with the task of executing the digital-to-analog converter box coupon, and with the Wilmington NC experience under...
Oxygen celebrates great quarter
Oxygen celebrated its most successful quarter ever for both primetime and total day. Per Nielsen Media Research data, Q3 2008 was the network's most...
Buffett buying GE stake
NBC Universal parent General Electric announced plans to sell at least $12 billion of common stock to the public and to sell $3 billion of a new issue of preferred stock to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway
Exposure incident outed in Survivor episode
There was an unwanted and, for a time apparently undetected screen presence in CBS’s latest round of “Survivor,” taking place in Gabon. One of the participants in an immunity contest unfortunately found