Starz renews “Crash”
Starz Entertainment has renewed “Crash,” its first original drama series, co-produced with Lionsgate, for a second season scheduled to debut in the fall. The...
Industry players spar over SHVERA
Broadcasters want to make sure local free over-the-air television is available to viewers on satellite in all 210 DMAs. But satellite companies would like to carry broadcasters for free (or at a fixed rate)
SAG contract talks collapse; Offer rejected
First there was hope – the scheduled two days of talks between the new negotiating committee from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers
SAG board rejects contract offer
The National Board of the Screen Actors Guild turned thumbs down on the "last, best and final offer" from the Hollywood studios. The vote...
Low power org aims for high volume in DC
The Community Broadcasters Association is getting out its megaphone in Washington this Wednesday – hoping to demonstrate its positive contribution to diversity of ownership,...
DTV consumer questions detailed
The topic was reception and technical matters in about a third of the calls received at the FCC 2/18/09 in the aftermath of the...
Another police drama for CBS
Following the success of “Flashpoint” last summer, CBS and CBS Paramount Network Television are again teaming up with Canada’s CTV for a police drama. CBS has ordered 13 episodes of “The Bridge,”
Week 21: Basketball is good to cable
Broadcasting networks claimed 89 of the top 100 shows for the past week in the key 18-49 demo, according to the merger of broadcast...
Warner Bros. renews TMZ for two more seasons
Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution has renewed Telepictures Productions' hit entertainment news program "TMZ" for two additional seasons in 97% of the country, it...
Nexstar sees $75 million from retrans
Having led the fight for retransmission consent payments in 2005, Nexstar reports that it has signed renewals and new retrans agreements with 179 cable, satellite and telco companies. Those contracts
Mini-DTV transition largely uneventful
We were wondering what was going through the mind of a CQ headline writer who wrote “Digital Television Switch Confusion Clogs Regulators’ Phones.” The Capitol Hill organ was referring to the same
SAG talks with studios DOA
Contract talks between the Screen Actors Guild and the AMPTP, representing the major studios, broke down after the scheduled two-day meeting went into a...
Idol marches on (again)
It would be big news if "American Idol" didn't top the ratings in a week without any blockbuster, special event competition - and we...
Veteran producers launch MY-Tupelo Entertainment
Cary Glotzer and Michael Yudin have formed a new joint venture, merging the interests of MY Entertainment Company and Tupelo-Honey Productions into My Entertainment...
Mandatory furloughs at Media General
In the face of a still-contracting economy, Media General has ordered all employees to take off 10 days without pay through the first three...