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...
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....
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
Barrington latest to be downgraded
After putting five television broadcasters up for credit rating reviews this month, Moody’s Investors Service has now downgraded another TV group owner that wasn’t...
That other SNL
It turns out that the “Saturday Night Live” broadcast which was #10 in the key 18-49 demo for the week ending October 19th was...
World Series a downer for Fox
Lacking a national following for either team in this year’s World Series, the Nielsen ratings have been down from a year ago for the...
White space pushback continues
They’re tripping over one another to either attack the FCC’s possible opening of a Pandora’s box full of unlicensed white space devices, or at...
White space: Dueling Democrats
Key House committee chairman John Dingell (D-MI) has queried the FCC on its study of white space usage between television channels, praising a cautious approach to opening the spectrum
O’Reilly calls for “feds” to investigate Nielsen
“There may be some big time cheating going on in the ratings system,” said Fox News Channel (FNC) host Bill O’Reilly as he lashed out Thursday
Beaten anchor dies
KATV-TV (ABC) Little Rock news anchor Anne Pressly, who was found beaten and stabbed in her home last week, died on Saturday. The Allbritton...
Big ratings for SNL
The big story in the weekly ratings crunch by the Television Bureau of Advertising (TVB) combining Nielsen data for both broadcast and cable/satellite networks...
Full court defense against white space invaders
The pushback against a possible 11/4/08 vote by FCC commissioners on a plan to allow unlicensed devices to begin roosting in the television