Fox Reality Channel launches “The Cindy Margolis Dating Project”
Fox Reality Channel is set to begin production and casting for its newest original series, The Cindy Margolis Dating Project (working title). The dating...
CW to roll-out summer series
For the first time ever, The CW will debut a new series for the summer. In fact, it will bring out two new ones...
Estrella TV signs Miami affiliate
Liberman Broadcasting’s soon-to-launch Estrella TV network has now nailed down all of the top five Hispanic markets in the US. It will be carried...
March Madness ratings up for CBS
Saturday’s NCAA Tournament Semi-Finals games gave CBS an easy win in primetime and posted ratings up 7% from a year ago. CBS can hope...
Is OK TV news deal OK?
The state of Oklahoma is running some ads with an Oklahoma television broadcaster. Nothing unusual about that – but does the arrangement spill over into news coverage? Some in are concerned
Stay in and watch a movie
Another movie scored well in syndication in the most recent week. "Enemy of the State," a 1998 spy flick, tied the "Oprah Winfrey Show"...
Dueling DTV apps get a workout month
Four sets of television stations with mutually exclusive DT engineering applications have been given 30 days to come up with technical modifications or to...
PTC objects to Osbournes revival
The Parents Television Council counted 49 “harsh bleeped and unbleeped expletives and partially-obscured obscene gestures” during the opening round of “Osbournes: Reloaded,” which Fox...
TLC to air bio of Capt. Sullenberger
TLC announced it has secured the exclusive rights to “Brace for Impact,” a bio-documentary of Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger, III. Sullenberger rose to national...
GAC debuts new bio doc series “Backstory”
Great American Country (GAC) will debut Backstory, the only biographical documentary series devoted to the lives of country music's top stars today at 8:00...
Fox Sports International gets UEFA Champions League
Fox Sports International has acquired the media rights in the US and Caribbean to the UEFA Champions League, Europe’s most prestigious annual club soccer...
WBAL reporter axed over altered video John Gibson
The Washington Post reports Hearst-Argyle’s WBAL-TV (NBC) Baltimore reporter John Sanders has lost his job after acknowledging that he doctored a video to make...
“ER” goes out strong
The series finale of “ER” gave NBC a rare Thursday ratings win and delivered the highest 18-49 rating for a drama series finale on broadcast television
Network-affiliate standoff in Boston
WHDH-TV is opting for an hour of local news, rather than Jay Leno, at 10:00 pm, which isn’t sitting well with NBC. Will this go so far as a battle over the NBC affiliation in the Boston market?
AWRT names Gracie Award winners
What do Maya Angelou, Candy Crowley and Miley Cyrus have in common? They’re all among the winners of the 2009 winners of the 34th...