"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...
USA Network goes to the movies
NBC Universal is on both sides of this deal as USA Networks has licensed Universal Pictures’ 2009 film slate for exclusive network television premiere...
Fisher adds The CW in two markets
KIMA-TV Yakima and KEPR-TV Tri-Cities, WA – both CBS affiliates – will be adding CW affiliations as digital multicasts. The network had previously been...
Company hopes to Zip TV in the bud
There is a firm out there that hopes to benefit from the DTV transition, and the more confusion, the better. Zip Express Installations is...
“Wilkos” gets third season group renewals
NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution's "The Steve Wilkos Show" has been renewed on local broadcast stations from numerous leading station groups for its third...
“Sully” and Grammy score for CBS
New, young artists helped CBS Sunday night, as ratings for the “51st Annual Grammy Awards” jumped from a year ago. Meanwhile, Katie Couric’s interview of US Airways Captain Chesley “Sully”