How about a little cross-promotion?
Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa will be making a primetime appearance next month. The daytime TV duo will guest star as themselves on the...
All-request TV
Granite Broadcasting’s independent KBWB-TV San Francisco is letting viewers program the station on Sunday nights, 8-10 pm. The all-request programming is being called “Retro...
Dish also drops soccer channel
Citadel Communication’s four local stations in the Midwest weren’t the only signals to be pulled from Dish Network on Friday, August 1st. GolTV, a...
Making the move to daytime
CBS announced that Michael Gross is joining “The Young and the Restless” beginning with the episode airing Friday, August 15th. Gross will play “Lowell...
New production team for L&O:CI
Jeff Wachtel, USA Network's Executive Vice President of original programming and co-head, original content, Universal Cable Productions and Dick Wolf, executive producer and creator...
Appeals court reversal for TV networks
A federal appeals court in New York has reversed a lower court and given Cablevision a thumbs-up for deployment of its centrally networked DVR...
Olympic sales soft for Hearst-Argyle stations
With the Summer Olympics in Beijing set to begin airing this Friday on NBC, Hearst-Argyle Television CEO David Barrett told investors and analysts on...
D minus 200 days and counting
In this case, the D stands for DTV, and as of today, there are 200 days left until analog broadcast television becomes a matter...
Television to die for
Spike TV has ordered 10 episodes of “1000 Ways to Die,” with each 30-minute episode featuring different and bizarre ways that people have managed...
Moonves has digital vision of CBS’ future
After buying CNET for $1.8 billion, CBS is now looking to pare its radio group by 50 stations, which RBR/TVBR estimates should bring in...
DISH Network unveils major HD upgrade
DISH Network became the first to offer high definition programming in 1080p, the highest and best HD resolution available. This new functionality is part of DISH Network's latest
FTC calls kid food a $1.6B category
Manufacturers and distributors of foods and beverages aimed $1.6B at children during 2006, according to the Federal Trade Commission. The campaigns often integrated various...
Olympics may expand online TV viewing
An estimated 12% of all adults using the Internet have watched an event live online. But JupiterResearch says NBC Universal could expand that with the Beijing Summer Olympics, which
1, 2, 3 for CBS syndication
"Jeopardy" bumped "Two and a Half Men" out of the top three in syndicated television in the most recent week, giving CBS Television Distribution...
MGM and Weigel to launch “This”
That’s right. This TV. Weigel Broadcasting has already been programming classic TV shows on two LPTV stations in Chicago and is now teaming with...