AMPTP states its case in full-page ads
WGA STRIKE CENTRAL DAY 10As the WGA strike goes on into day 10, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) placed full-page...
WGA sends letter of support to Broadway strikers
WGA STRIKE CENTRAL DAY 10The WGA sent a letter of support this week to striking Broadway stagehands-members of Local One of the International Alliance...
CBS News writers may be next
WGA STRIKE CENTRAL DAY 10The WGA East, the union that represents news writers for CBS News, may vote tomorrow to authorize a strike in...
How might the strike affect next Television upfront?
WGA STRIKE CENTRAL DAY 10Few are willing to predict how long the work stoppage will last, but a strike by the Writers Guild in...
WWOR-TV up for renewal hearing
Fox Television Stations will have to defend its stewardship of WWOR-TV at the Paul Roberson Campus Center at Rutgers-Newark after Thanksgiving. The Secaucus NJ...
Prather back to running newspapers
Remember when Gray Television spun off its newspaper holdings to merge with the former Bull Run Corporation and create Triple Crown Media (8/4/05 TVBR...
Barrington's focus is local, local, Internet
As in local sales, local news and Internet initiatives for the TV stations' local websites. Barrington Broadcasting Group COO Jim Yager noted in the...
Newspaper in deal to relaunch TV newscast
SagamoreHill Broadcasting's WLTZ-TV (Ch. 38, NBC) Columbus, GA last broadcast a local newscast under a former owner in 1993. But local news returned yesterday...
Fox suspends producer-writers
At first it was a threat, now it's real: News Corp.'s Fox Studio has suspended producer-writers who refused to cross strikers' picket lines to...
Little strike impact on local stations for a while
In his quarterly conference call, Barrington Broadcasting Group CEO Jim Yager told Wall Street analysts he doesn't see any near-term impact on his local...
3,500 protest near Fox studios
More than 3,500 writers, actors and supporters closed in on 20th Century Fox studios Friday in LA to support the WGA Strike in a...
On a clear day…
Clear Channel is sending another station to its pre-privatization parking lot, but this time, instead of an excess baggage radio station, a television station...
Lincoln spins out of Charlotte, sells TV
Some of the old Jefferson-Pilot stations acquired by Lincoln Financial have been resold, representing well over half a billion dollars in trading value. Television...
Ali joins "American Gladiators"
Professional boxer and former "Dancing With the Stars" contestant Laila Ali will join Hulk Hogan as co-host of "American Gladiators," which NBC is preparing...
Hulu launches beta, lists full schedule
Hulu, the online video venture between news Corp. and NBCU, allowed beta visitors in today. We've got the full list of shows. Most shows...