Two more report down month
May revenues for Gannett’s television stations were down 6.2%, which at least was better than the 14.3% drop in ad revenues for its newspapers. Media General reported that broadcasting revenues
ABC shoots and scores!
Games 3, 4 and 5 of the LA-Boston NBA Finals produced strong summer ratings for ABC. As the week's three most watched shows on...
Update on 2009 May Sweep
A Nielsen spokesman told RBR/TVBR yesterday that the ratings company had not yet received the request from COLTAM that the 2009 May Sweep be...
Redford rolling in dough
Cablevision’s Rainbow Media Holdings has completed its $496 million acquisition of the Sundance Channel. The sellers were Robert Redford and his media partners, GE’s...
Military move pays off for Lifetime
Lifetime Television is celebrating big ratings for season two of its drama series, “Army Wives.” Episode two on Sunday drew just shy of two...
PTC claims kill credit for FX show
The Parents Television Council objected to the sexual and violent content of “Dirt,” a basic cable offering from FX, owned by News Corporation. It...
Fisher gets Hip
Fisher Communications announced that its three Univision affiliated stations have agreed to join HipCricket's recently established Hispanic Mobile Marketing Network. The network is the...
Best growth markets for television
SNL Kagan projects growth in TV revenues (3.9% over the next five years) despite a 2007 decline of 8.5% generated by the writers' strike and advertising migration to the Internet
NBC Sports & World Championship Sports Network form Universal Sports
NBC Universal’s NBC Sports and World Championship Sports Network have joined forces to create Universal Sports. It’ll combine NBCU's programming, production and promotional power...
Eshoo wants ads to eschew decibels
Representative Anna Eshoo (D-CA) is apparently tired of having to hit the down-volume button on her remote when television commercials come on, and is...
Sony: The doctor is in
Sony Pictures Television has won the bidding to syndicate “Dr. Oz” (working title), launching in the Fall of 2009. Mehmet C. Oz MD has been an audience favorite when appearing
Weather report: NBC closing in
NBC Universal confirmed that it is in exclusive negotiations to buy The Weather Channel and weather.com from Landmark Communications, after Time Warner dropped out...
Video & sleep even-steven by 2013
So says a study from Solutions Research Group. It says avereage viewing of video-form content has gone from 4.6 hours daily in 1996 to...
Did Fox broadcast nudity in 2003
That’s what the Parents Television Council is claiming, and the episode of “Married by America” in question did draw a hefty FCC fine amounting...
Russert the Sunday morning Dominator
NBC News reported Friday that NBC Senior Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert had died from a sudden heart attack. He was 58. The long time moderator of “Meet the Press”