FiOS added 200K subs in Q3
Verizon reports that it added 202,000 net new subscribers to its FiOS TV digital competitor to local cable systems in Q3, bringing the total...
ValueVision ousts CEO
ValueVision Media, which operates the ShopNBC channel, announced that CEO William Lansing has exited at the request of the board of directors. The company...
Citi Debuts campaign for Citi Cards
Citi announced the launch of its new national campaign for Citi Cards, the world's largest provider of credit cards. The first television commercial of...
MG seeks strength and balance
And Media General is going to try to achieve these noble characteristics via strategic divestiture. "The decision to explore the potential sale of five...
CBS sets up criminal cross-pollination
In a bid to pick up some extra viewers in the November Sweeps, CBS has scheduled the first-ever crossover between its hit crime shows...
Big numbers, but now it's over
Fox scored big on Sunday with Game 4 of the World Series. Unfortunately for the network, the Boston Red Sox swept the Colorado Rockies,...
Negotiators about to get fed
That's fed as in federal assistance. The Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers and the Writers Guild of America still are not close...
New name, same family
Morgan Murphy Stations has rebranded itself as Morgan Murphy Media. "This name change reflects how our industry and the media landscape have changed in...
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...