Analysis – What about the public interest?
ANALYSIS - What about the public interest?The battle lines have been drawn for the latest attempt by the FCC to reform its media ownership...
Close encounter in Decatur
GOCOM Media of Illinois is getting its third TV in the geographical sprawling Champaign-Springfield-Decatur IL DMA, adding WBUI-TV from ACME Communications for 4M. The...
Looking at Week 4; Daytime C3
Carat Programming's Broadcast and Video Beat took a look at the fourth week of the television season, week ending October 21, 2007. It also...
Upped at Nexstar
Philip Dubrow has been promoted to Vice President and General Manager of Nexstar's WTAJ-TV (Ch. 10, CBS) Johnstown-Altoona-State College, PA, effective November 1st. Dubrow...
Colbert drawing solid support
Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central's faux political bloviator, is adding faux candidate for president to his resume, a form of schtick that first saw Pat...
Lincoln sales likely this week
Despite a huge price reduction from original expectations, TVBR sources confirmed last Friday that Lincoln Financial Group is set to swallow hard and exit...
PUBLISHER'S PERSPECTIVE
At the stroke of midnight 12/31/07 we shout "Happy New Year 2008!" Let me be the first to say now Happy New Year, as...
Downturn for Comcast
Cable giant Comcast disappointed Wall Street with a 54% drop in Q3 net income, although that was up 2% excluding special gains for the...
Tribune sells Connecticut papers again
Tribune Company has a new buyer for its Stamford and Greenwich, CT newspapers after a previous 73 million bucks sale to Gannett unraveled (5/29/07...
"The Doctors" sold in 50% of US
CBS Television Distribution confirmed plans for a spin-off from the successful "Dr. Phil" show and announced that it has already been sold in syndication...
Judy stays on Pat's tail
Don't look back Pat Sajak! "Judge Judy" is sticking right behind "Wheel of Fortune" in the syndicated ratings, as reported by the Syndicated Network...
Drew draws big numbers
If there were worries that "The Price is Right" would suffer an audience loss from the retirement of Bob Barker, those worries have been...
Belo working against tough comps in Q4
After surprising Wall Street with its Q3 performance, with TV revenues up despite the lack of political advertising, Belo is continuing to hold the...
Tribune's quarter better than expected
Q3 revenues were down, but only 4% for Tribune Company, not the 7% that Wall Street had expected, and earnings per share were much...
Meredith cautious about value of splits
With Belo and Scripps announcing plans to split their companies in two, it was inevitable that Meredith Corporation CEO Stephen Lacy would be asked...