Saturday, September 28, 2024

Peacock struts in summer

It hasn't actually won a week, but NBC is showing rare ratings strength in summer programming, repeating its performance as #2 in both Households...

Henson joining "Boston Legal"

A new character is being added to ABC's "Boston Legal" next season. Taraji P. Henson will join the cast as a series regular later...

Univision expands in the Territories

The multimedia cluster operated by US Hispanic giant Univision on the Caribbean island territory of Puerto Rico figures to get a bit bigger. It...

Big Ten Network sets August 30 launch

Big Ten Network President Mark Silverman announced yesterday that the new cable network will go live on Thursday, August 30th, two days before the...

Court nixes CEO bonus

A federal bankruptcy court last week denied a request from Granite Broadcasting Corporation to pay a 460K bonus to CEO and founder W. Don...

Cable boxing match

11th hour attempts to waive the requirement to separate security functions from other functions of set-top boxes has failed. Those little boxes rented from...

Getting out while the getting is good?

The way for a television company to impress Wall Street appears to be to put itself up for sale. Through the first half of...

New SF outlet for Azteca

Azteca America announced that Granite Broadcasting has signed on as its new affiliate in San Francisco, broadcasting the Spanish network as a full-time digital...

Joel Siegel dead at 63

ABC News announced Friday that "Good Morning America" film critic Joel Siegel had died of colon cancer. He was 63, having lived six years...

Price revealed in West Virginia

We now know the price that Withers Broadcasting will pay to double up in the Clarksburg-Weston WV DMA. It's getting WVFX-TV from Davis Television...

No blanket reprieve on cable box rule

The FCC's order opening up the market for cable set-top boxes goes into effect today, as scheduled, with the Media Bureau late Friday issuing...

NBA contract won’t hurt Disney

The new contract that the NBA announced with ESPN/ABC may look like a 20% fee hike, but Bank of America analyst Jonathan Jacoby says...

Nexstar on Mission to play wild KARD

Mission Broadcasting is buying NBC 10 KTVE-TV in the far-flung, state-straddling Monroe LA-El Dorado AR Nielsen DMA. Nexstar Broadcasting Group is already in the...

Cox Communications holds 2nd Teen Summit on Internet Safety

Cox Communications and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) held the Second Annual National Teen Summit on Internet Safety yesterday in...

From Superstation to local station

Time Warner's only O&O television station, WTBS-TV (Ch. 17) Atlanta, is no longer going to be the flagship of the TBS Superstation, but will...