Six shows already shutting down from strike
WGA STRIKE CENTRAL: DAY 3The AP reports production of ABC's "Desperate Housewives" will cease because it has run out of scripts due to the...
TV One looks to the sky
TV One is growing well as a cable network, but Radio One CEO Alfred Liggins and CFO Scott Royster have hopes for more. In...
WGA President on strategy; picket lines everywhere
WGA STRIKE CENTRAL: DAY 3As the WGA East picketers hit the streets of NYC, intermingling with pedestrians, the WGA West folks are right on...
WGA Strike: so what happened?
WGA STRIKE CENTRAL: DAY 2The WGA went on strike at midnight ET after 11 hours of negotiations at an LA Hotel. The Alliance of...
Picketing under way for WGA strike
WGA STRIKE CENTRAL: DAY 2The first walkout by Hollywood writers in nearly 20 years got under way Monday with noisy pickets outside the "Today"...
Financial impact of the WGA strike
WGA STRIKE CENTRAL: DAY 2The WGA strike is the first walkout by writers since 1988. That work stoppage lasted 22 weeks and cost the...
SNTA comments on strike
WGA STRIKE CENTRAL: DAY 2In response to the WGA writers' strike, Syndicated Network Television Association (SNTA) President Mitch Burg tells TVBR their members will...
Strike two for CBS?
CBS, along with the other networks and studios, is being struck by the members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) who write show...
Telemundo puts full-length programs online
In what's being called a first for Spanish-language television, Telemundo announced that all of its primetime shows and novelas are being made available online,...
Gormally clears Springfield deal
That's Springfield MA, where Sinclair Broadcast Group has closed on its sale of NBC 40 WGGB-TV. According to Patrick Communications broker Susan Patrick, the...
Ten candles on Maury's cake
Maury Povich celebrates the 10th season on the air for "Maury" tomorrow with a special hour featuring some of its most memorable guests and...
Sinclair clears Springfield deal
That's Springfield MA, where Sinclair Broadcast Group has closed on its acquisition of NBC 40 WGGB-TV. According to Patrick Communications brokers Susan Patrick, the...
Flying fingers inflate price
Larry Patrick of Patrick Communications assures us that his brokerage firm would love to collect on their cut of the 141M we said was...
Bob's a Hall of Famer
Retired "The Price is Right" host Bob Barker will be inducted into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame during the 2008 NAB Show Television...
WGA strike officially on
WGA STRIKE CENTRAL Day 1The federal mediator involved in contract talks between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and Alliance of Motion Picture and...