The nuts and bolts of the Belo spin-off
If you currently hold shares of Belo Corporation, there's not anything you have to do related to the planned spin-off of the company's newspaper...
Belo to split; Shive heading new TV company
Belo Corporation is set to become the nation's largest pure play television company (assuming that Hearst-Argyle goes private), splitting itself by spinning off its...
WTTA, WFLA to produce shared newscast in Tampa
WTTA-TV (MY TV 38) and WFLA-TV (NBC 8) announced a deal for WFLA-TV to produce a 10:00pm to 10:35pm newscast Monday through Friday on...
CBS launches "Eyelab"
CBS announced the launch of "EyeLab," an editing studio dedicated to creating CBS-based promotional content to be distributed across CBS Interactive platforms. The new...
NTIA getting set for 500-day DTV countdown
Did you know that Satuday, October 6, 2007 is D-minus 500 days before broadcast analog television joins the dinosaurs on history's scrap heap? NTIA...
Verizon wireless rolling out mobile TV
Consumers with the proper equipment can now start getting "broadcast quality" television programming over their handheld devices in over 30 US markets, including Manhattan,...
TV One signs Michael Baisden
TV One has signed ABC Radio Networks' Michael Baisden to host a new talk/variety show, "Baisden After Dark." The 13-episode series will explore subjects...
Independent directors say no to Hearst-Argyle buyout
The offer from Hearst Corporation to buy out other shareholders of Hearst-Argyle Television has been rejected by the special committee of independent directors at...
US tries to take Fox case to Supreme Court
The Second Circuit Court in New York shot down the FCC's attempt to reverse its own long-standing policy and penalize broadcasters for allowing fleeting...
Hearst arrives at retrans accord with Cox
If there's one big cable operator you'd expect to grasp both sides of the broadcast retransmission issue, its Cox, which also includes significant television...
Historic first for "Everybody Hates Chris"
CW's successful sitcom "Everybody Hates Chris" is all about the childhood of comedian Chris Rock, but one of the things that the show has...
No immediate return to easy credit
There was optimism at the financing session in Charlotte that the current credit crunch will moderate, but no one was predicting a quick return...
Reps bring product placement to the fore
The FCC's designated VNR specialist Jonathan Adelstein (D) has expressed his satisfaction with the 4K fine levied against Comcast for broadcast of an unidentified...
Nielsen plans a 2011 trip
That's trip for triple, which is what the ratings icon plans to do to its National People Meter research base. By 2011, it plans...
Cowles clears a path into California
The publisher of The Spokane Spokesman-Review also owns television properties in the inland portion of Washington State. It is now taking advantage of Providence...