TVB board to meet in Vegas
Having merged its own Spring event into its Fall forecast conference, the Television Bureau of Advertising’s (TVB) board of directors meeting is now set...
Week 20: Broadcast 95; Cable/Satellite 5
It was a tough week for cable/satellite networks. Not a single show made the top 50 in the melding of broadcast and cable/satellite ratings...
Sinclair conserving cash as revenues pace down 20%-plus
Sinclair Broadcast Group reported that Q4 revenues were down only 0.8%, but that Q1 is expected to be down in the low to mid...
Copps walking the DTV beat
Dislocation and confusion are coming on February 17th and 18th,” said Acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps. He noted that it will be mitigated by not being universal, since Congress extended the hard deadline
FCC maps out early analog departures
With commendable and blazing speed, the FCC has put together a comprehensive list of stations that are have already shut off analog service or...
"Idol" tops the Grammys
Ratings were up for the Grammy Awards on CBS, but "American Idol" on Fox still claimed the top spot in the weekly ratings. CBS...
Obama draws strong numbers
Nielsen reports that President Barack Obama’s first primetime news conference on Monday (8-9 pm ET) hit a combined 30.8 household rating with 49,455,133 viewers....
Spike TV orders 10 episodes of “Players”
Spike TV has greenlit a new, original half-hour comedy, "Players," which follows two brothers with opposite personalities trying to run a sports bar. Created...
CV Network chooses “The Switch”
CV Network, a Spanish-language, general entertainment channel, targeting Caribbean Hispanics in the U.S., has contracted with The Switch to deliver content for its growing...
Beggs to Chair NATPE this year
Kevin Beggs, President, Programming and Production, Lionsgate Television, just completed a year as Co-Chair of the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) with...
SAG and AMPTP set meeting
Contract talks are finally set to resume. The joint announcement came Tuesday: “Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers...
“America’s Got Talent” gets a new host
Entertainer, producer and comedian Nick Cannon will succeed Jerry Springer as the new host of NBC's "America's Got Talent" when the talent-competition returns next...
Tech site sets up coupon matching service
With the NTIA DTV digital-to-analog converter box coupon program stuck in the mud, consumer electronics website Retrevo is offering to play matchmaker between those who need a coupon and
Azteca combining cross-border news operations
Azteca America is consolidating its national network newscast into a “binational newscast” originating from Azteca 7 and the parent company’s FIA newsgathering team in...
News Corp. to scale back MyNetworkTV
Despite recent ratings improvement, MyNetworkTV is going to be reduced to not-quite-a-network this Fall. Citing the poor economy, News Corporation announced late yesterday that...