Gossip is good for CW
Good ratings news has been rare for The CW of late, so the network is crowing loudly about the second season premiere of “Gossip...
Peacock pick-ups
NBC has renewed summer reality hit “America’s Got Talent” for a 4th season. The show is averaging more than 13 million viewers this summer,...
MSNBC premieres “Boosting for Billions”
Joining with teams of investigators at big box stores like Walgreens and Target, in "Boosting for Billions" MSNBC cameras and crews go undercover to...
Fox Sports en Español launches new show for Latino NFL fans
Fox Sports en Español announced the launch of its first-ever weekly NFL football show, Fox Impacto NFL, which premiered on 8/29 at 9PM ET/6PM...
Tribune stations grab NFL games
Tribune Company announced a deal for local market airing of six games to be carried by the NFL Network on cable during the regular season. One game each will be broadcast locally on
This just in: People watch sports in bars
OK, maybe you’d already guessed that, but The Nielsen Company now has viewer data on what people are watching out-of-home. And it’s not just sports, but also “House,” “Moment of Truth” and
Television stations ride out the storm
Just as they did three years ago when Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, broadcasters in New Orleans were wall-to-wall with emergency information as Hurricane Gustav came ashore
Wilmingtonians getting the DTV message
A Smith-Geiger LLC poll confirmes that fully 97% of the residents of the Wilmington NC DMA have "seen, read or heard" about the upcoming...
Richmond: Now DOJ goes after Raycom
Immediately after nixing the $85M sale of CBS WTVR-TV Richmond to Sinclair, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division is suing Raycom in the U.S....
Sportscaster on GOP ticket
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential running mate. Not much is known about Palin's views...
Strong viewership for Democrats
This week it’s the Republicans turn in the Twin Cities, but let’s look at the ratings results from Nielsen for all four days of...
Reworked “At the Movies” sets debut
With two new co-hosts, Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz, “At the Movies” returns for its 23rd season in national syndication on September 6th. Disney-ABC...
TV Households increase by 1.5%
The Nielsen Company announced that the total number of television households within the U.S. (including Alaska and Hawaii) for the 2008-2009 season will be...
Lifetime turns out the stars
Lifetime’s "Army Wives" Brigid Brannagh and Sally Pressman, Lifetime Network's President and CEO Andrea Wong, Grammy Award-winning singer Ashanti, and Rock the Vote Executive...
Television universe almost DTV-ready
56% of the 1,798 active television stations in the USA are ready to fire on all cylinders when the DTV transition kicks in 2/17/09, and 41% are not quite there but anticipate no problems