ABC News producer arrested
ABC News says producer Asa Eslocker was arrested after police in Denver ordered him to leave a public sidewalk outside a hotel where the ABC News investigative unit was attempting
Judy back on top
No more tie for 1st place. "Judge Judy" was the sole owner for the most recent week in syndicated television. The report from the...
Final Olympic tally: 214 million
That’s how many US viewers watched some part of the NBC Universal telecasts over the 17 days of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. The count had already broken the previous record before the final day
No DOJ karma for Sinclair in Richmond
A Raycom television acquisition in Richmond forced it to divest a station, and in June, Sinclair agreed to buy one from Raycom. It planned...
Alphabet net picks up five
Stephen McPherson, President, ABC Entertainment, announced pick-ups of five new series for the 2008-2009 season. The list includes three dramas, “Castle,” “Cupid” and “The...
Women’s organization joins kidvid organization
A group of groups have banded together to form the Smart Television Alliance (STA), an organization dedicated to helping parents find suitable television programming...
DNC tally for Day 2
Day two of the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday August 26, 2008 featured a speech by Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) that was carried live during primetime on eight networks – ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX News Channel, MSNBC, BET and TV One
22 million watch Democrats, night one
Nielsen Media Research reports that Monday night’s kickoff of the Democratic National Convention from Denver scored a Household rating of 15.1. That’s the combined...
Olympics trounce all comers
There were only seven days of Beijing Olympics broadcast in the past week, which had the usual seven days, but NBC managed to claim...
Time Warner Cable agrees to carry Big Ten Network
Just in time for the start of the college football season, the Big Ten Network announced that it had an agreement in principle for...
CBS shuffles Survivor
CBS is delaying the premiere of “Survivor: Gabon – Earth’s Last Eden” by one week, but also expanding the debut episode to two hours....
Olympic ratings up double digits from 2004
The Nielsen tally shows NBC Universal’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics attracted an average of 27.7 million viewers and scored a 16.2...
PTC zips into 90210 fray
Decency watchdog Parents Television Council isn’t waiting around for the debut of CW’s new version of “Beverly Hills 90210.” It is slamming CW for its decision to prescreen the new program
A tie at the top
"Judge Judy" isn't giving up her #1 ranking in syndicated television, but this week she has to share it. According to the Syndicated Network...
Idol adds a judge
It seems “American Idol” has been successful enough for Fox that it can now afford to add a 4th judge. Grammy-nominated songwriter Kara DioGuardi...