Photog shot while shooting
WISH-TV’s Kevin Hankins was shooting video at a house fire in Indianapolis early Friday morning when he was hit by a shot from a...
Univision was #1 in America among Adults
Univision blew away the competition last Thursday as the fifth edition of its “Premios Juventud 2008” youth awards show delivered an average audience of 5.2 million viewers
SAG contract remains snagged on Internet
No further meetings are scheduled between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), but neither has...
ESPN to broadcast historic game
ESPN has exercised its right to do a national telecast of the last regular-season game to be played at Yankee Stadium. If the Yankees...
Griffin takes command at MSNBC
He was already credited with turning around the #3 cable news channel, now Phil Griffin has been named President of MSNBC. He’s a 25...
Fox News, NBC, among first uncompressed HD video clients
Ascent Media Network Services, a provider of outsourced network origination services to the media and entertainment industry, announced key milestones in the launch of...
Emmys drama: Basic cable joins the party
For the first time, a basic cable series has been nominated for the Best Drama Series Emmy – in fact, two of them: “Damages”...
Already squatters in TV white spaces?
A coalition of consumer watchdogs known as the Public Interest Spectrum Coalition is trying to clean up the spectrum between television stations before the...
Satellite loss had greater consequences
Dish Network downplayed the loss of its EchoStar 2 satellite, saying the 12-year-old bird was “primarily as a back-up satellite, but had provided local...
Media General hopes for better second half
Media General met its guidance to Wall Street for Q2, but that was nothing to get excited about. Newspaper revenues were down 14.7% and television revenues dropped 5.7%
Spending the summer with Judy
"Judge Judy" continues on top in syndicated TV, according to the weekly report from the Syndicated Television Network Association (SNTA), based on data from...
Tough quarter for Gannett
Broadcasting revenues fell 5.9% in Q2 at Gannett, while newspaper ad revenues plunged 13.5%. The company managed to his its earnings target of $1.02...
LATV signs Yolanda Perez as host
Bilingual DTV multicast network LATV announced that banda music queen Yolanda Perez has joined the network as the new host for its regional Mexican...
Petersen leaving CSI
William Petersen is leaving “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” after staring on the CBS series since its fall 2000 debut. He will, however, return as...
Dish adds a new bird, loses an old bird
Bouncing back from the failure of its previous satellite launch (3/18/08 TVBR #54), Dish Network celebrated the successful launch of the EchoStar XI satellite...