LIN TV launches local content channels on YouTube
LIN TV announced the launch of dedicated LIN TV "Channels" on YouTube. The companies said the partnership reflects LIN TV's commitment to further expand...
Winning week for ABC
The Alphabet Network was tops in both Households and 18-49 for the most recent week. Even so, CBS had the top two shows with...
NBC renames O&O group
NBC Owned-and-Operated Stations Group has been renamed the NBC Local Media Division. As he announced the change, John Wallace, President of the NBC Local...
News Corp. ready to set WSJ.com free
Rupert Murdoch told reporters back in his native Australia that News Corporation is already pacing ahead of its guidance for its fiscal Q2 and...
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...