Cost-cutting pays off for Young
Operating income shot up 41% in Q1 to $1.8 million for Young Broadcasting, despite a 1.8% decline in net revenues to just under $35...
Barrington cutting staff in soft economy
Net revenues were up 2.6% to $26.7 million in Q1 for Barrington Broadcasting, but CEO Jim Yager notes that the company is dealing with...
NBCU holds onto production team
As battling continues in court over whether the Weinstein Co. had the right to take “Project Runway” to Lifetime Networks, NBC Universal has signed...
A&E to launch two Emmy screener sites
Academy members are greeted with an abundance of DVDs and box sets from networks and studios this time of year. A&E is offering an...
CW launching afternoon block with Warner Bros.
Expanding The CW schedule into daytime television, the two-hour weekday block from Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution will air 3-5 pm ET on The...
Ion strikes carriage deal
The latest cable carriage deal for Ion Media Networks will put its suite of channels on systems serving more than 10 million homes that...
Wrestling with the stars
Somehow, you knew reality television would get around to this eventually. CMT is setting a fall premier for “Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling.” The...
Product placements rose 6% in Q1
The Nielsen Company reported product placements for Q1 rose 6% on primetime programming for the 11 measured networks on broadcast (ABC, CBS, CW, FOX, MNT, NBC) and cable television (A&E, Bravo, HGTV, MTV, TLC).
AARP gets into DTV coupon business
Old-time advocate AARP, worried that 40% of the 20M households at risk of being left behind during the DTV conversion have a member aged...
You’ve got to fight for your right to white space
A coalition of professional and amateur sports organizations, and ESPN, are taking exception to the notion that the white spaces between television stations are...
Post-Newsweek’s Q1 down 4%
An increase of $2.8 million in political revenues failed to counter the soft ad market for Post-Newsweek Stations, so Q1 revenues declined 4% to...
CBS goes to the dogs
CBS has named zoologist and pet expert Jarod Miller to host a new reality show, with the working title “Greatest American Dog,” set to...
AMPTP wont accept pay hikes suggested by SAG
Here we go again: major Hollywood studios said they won't accept pay hikes sought by the Screen Actors Guild in their new contract negotiations....
Judy's back on top
"Judge Judy" moved back ahead of "Wheel of Fortune" in the most recent week. The weekly numbers from syndicated television are from the Syndicated...
NAB enlists radio to push DTV
Reasoning that many of the television viewers most at-risk of being left behind on DTV-Day 2/17/09 are also heavy radio users, the NAB is...