TV pacings down sharply for Meredith
Political is still providing a cushion, but otherwise Meredith Corporation reports that the percentage drop for TV pacings in the current quarter is in...
LIN and Time Warner Cable settle at last
Nearly a month has gone by since 15 LIN stations were pulled from Time Warner Cable systems in 11 markets – but that changed yesterday as all returned. Terms of the new retransmission
TV5Monde to cover election
TV5MONDE USA, America’s only 24/7 French language channel, will air live coverage of the Presidential election from New York City, for the first time...
Not only is white space on the agenda
At least one FCC commissioner thinks Chairman Kevin Martin’s on white space devices (WSDs) will not only be approved, it may well draw a...
Week 5: Broadcast 96, Cable 4
ESPN's "Monday Night Football" made its usual top 10 appearance (#9), but otherwise the top-rated cable/satellite network show for all of television in the big money 18-49 demo for week five
Strong week for Fox and CBS
With the World Series underway, Fox had a good week in the Nielsen ratings, claiming the top spot in the key 18-49 demo, while...
Play ball! Maybe
If the weather cooperates at last, the rain-delayed game five of the World Series that began Monday night on Fox will resume tonight, with...
Not quite a roadblock
Come 8:00 pm ET tonight, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will be all over the dial. His campaign has bought half-hour blocks on Fox,...
Lou Dorfsman dead at 90
CBS reports that Lou Dorfsman, the veteran design director who helped mold the network’s image for more than 40 years, died October 22nd at...
Affiliation shuffle
Come New Year’s Day, Nexstar’s KBTV-TV will end a half-century-plus of affiliation with NBC and become the Fox outlet in the Beaumont-Port Arthur market....
McGraw-Hill cuts 2008 earnings estimates
The company’s TV group, of course, has little to do with that, having posted a 4.4% revenue increase in Q3 as revenue for the...
ABC and Verizon FIOS TV expand VOD offering
Disney-ABC Television Group and Verizon are making ABC’s VOD offering available to Verizon FiOS TV customers across the country. FiOS TV customers can watch...
DISH Network updates Interactive for election
DISH Network announced that through 11/ 7, DISH Network's interactive mosaic will update its multiple screen channel display to simultaneously air six 24-hour news...
Lifetime Television re-teams with Mandalay Television
Lifetime is joining forces once again with Mandalay Television and Stephanie Germain Productions to produce four new Lifetime Original Movies based on Nora Roberts'...
White space protest continues
In the broadcasting business, artists, union members and company executives do not always see eye to eye. But the possibility that the FCC may allow unlicensed devices to be unleashed