Discovery to be fully public
Discovery Holding Company has a non-binding letter of intent with Advance/Newhouse Programming Partnership to combine their stakes in Discovery Communications and Animal Planet, creating...
LIN in retrans battles
LIN Television says it has reached an impasse in retransmission negotiations with Cable One and expects the MSO to stop carrying KASA-TV (Ch. 2,...
DGA won’t negotiate until after the New Year
Some good news for the WGA. The Directors Guild of America (DGA) issued two statements saying they have chosen to wait to negotiate with...
WGA feeling the heat from within
The Writers Guild of America is under new and mounting pressure from its ranks to get back to the bargaining table, says an LA...
AMPTP board issues new statement
A new letter was sent yesterday by the AMPTP Board of Directors to companies represented by the AMPTP in the 2007 WGA negotiations. In...
Nets looking to scrap the upfront?
Along with being the first to pull out of the now-cancelled Winter Television Critics Association tour, NBC may be the first net to officially...
Sky Television sues over toppled tower
The Virginian-Pilot confirms the parent company of WSKY-TV Norfolk-Virginia Beach, VA (Channel 4) has sued Tower Innovations over the building of a tower that...
Satellite continues to eat into cable market share
The quarterly tally from the Television Bureau of Advertising (TVB) shows that alternate delivery systems (ADS), primarily satellite TV, now reach 28% of US...
HBO signs for VOD ratings
HBO has become the first company to sign up with Nielsen to receive television ratings for its video-on-demand offerings. The data will come from...
Youngstown becomes a two newsroom market
New Vision’s WKBN-TV (Ch. 27, CBS) Youngstown, OH this week began providing local newscasts for Parkin Broadcasting’s WYTV-TV (Ch. 33, ABC) under a contractual...
It’s a bird, it’s a plane – no, it’s a TV screen
Bright House Networks is one of the cable MSOs that has refused to carry the NFL Network, so DirecTV, which does carry the channel,...
Boxes: Get 'em while they're hot
Major retailers are coming on line with plans to sell digital-to-analog converter boxes, enabling non-MVPD-subscribers to keep their old analog television sets and still...
Sinclair fights payola/plugola charge
Television group owner Sinclair Broadcast Group is fighting an FCC Notice of Apparent Liability related to an appearance by pundit Armstrong Williams on at...
Week 11: A big week for cable
Broadcast TV still dominates in the weekly number crunch by the Television Bureau of Advertising (TVBR) to combine broadcast and cable/satellite Nielsen data, but...
“Big Shots” misfires
With all of the networks facing a drought of original scripted programming, could any show actually be bad enough to be cancelled? Well, ABC...