Got talent? NBC wants to know
NBC is preparing for the summer return of “America’s Got Talent” with auditions in nine major cities. The network notes that last year’s winner,...
DTV delay gains momentum
The House Energy and Commerce Committee canceled a DTV markup to see what was up in the Senate Commerce Committee – and an agreement...
Qualcomm demands partial deadline enforcement
The operator of MediaFLO mobile television network is counting on using spectrum tied to the migration of broadcast television from analog to digital, and...
Meredith TV pacing down 40%
Fiscal Q2 (October-December) broadcast revenues were down only 3.7% for Meredith Corporation, despite a sharp decline in auto advertising. But the current quarter is...
OMVC highlights the future of mobile DTV
At this year’s NATPE conference, The Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC), an alliance of more than 800 broadcasters whose mission is to accelerate the...
“Adrenaline Rush Hour” premieres on Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel’s new “caught-on-camera” series, Adrenaline Rush Hour, premiering Friday, January 30 at 9pm ET/PT is a reality thrill ride of shocking explosions, incredible...
Breaking: Univision and Televisa settle lawsuit
An out of court settlement has ended the lawsuit by Televisa which sought to get out of its long-term programming agreement with Univision. The...
DTV unreadiness dips under 6%
Nielsen reports that only 5.7% of US households, or about 6.5M of them, are now completely unprepared for the DTV transition, meaning that 1.3M homes have gotten their act together since the
ABC merging programming/studio operations
ABC Entertainment and ABC Studios are being merged into a new division, ABC Entertainment Group, to be managed by Steve McPherson
Univision to keep Televisa programming in out of court settlement
Televisa CEO Emilio Azcarraga Jean had been scheduled to take the witness stand yesterday in his company’s lawsuit to try to terminate
Steelers score for CBS
The Pittsburgh Steelers are Super Bowl bound. That not only makes RBR/TVBR's publisher a happy man, but also produced big ratings for CBS, which...
Allbritton pulled off a nearly flat year
There’s a catch, though. The fiscal year for Allbritton Communications ended September 30, 2008, before some of the worst of the advertising decline. Also,...
Mega TV adds KMCC-DT in Nevada
Spanish Broadcasting System announced that Mega TV has signed an affiliation agreement with Cranston Acquisition, LLC., in Las Vegas/Laughlin, Nevada for carriage on KMCC-DT...
Postponing the postponement
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce was going to mark up a bill on the DTV transition Wednesday that includes putting off the...
Inaugural a ratings hit
You’d expect a presidential inaugural to be a TV hit in Washington, DC, but Nielsen reports that Raleigh-Durham edged the nation’s capital with the highest Household rating for the Obama