Mindshare/Ford Motor Media comment on WGA strike
WGA STRIKE CENTRAL DAY 4Kevin Brown, Ford Motor Media, Senior Partner & Managing Director (part of Mindshare's TeamDetroit) and Ford Motor Media Broadcast Director...
Broadcast groups may focus on local to ride out strike
WGA STRIKE CENTRAL DAY 4In his quarterly conference call, Gray Television President Bob Prather said his information about the writers strike was the same...
Chernin sees Fox best positioned to weather strike
WGA STRIKE CENTRAL DAY 4Asked about the WGA strike in yesterday's quarterly conference call, News Corporation COO Peter Chernin said he had no idea...
Gray impacted by NBC, digital placement
Gray Television President Bob Prather says local is still strong, while national is struggling, so he was disappointed to report Q3 revenues down 9%....
TVB's ePort passes the 500-station mark
TVB ePort has secured the support of 507 committed stations in 176 markets, representing 95.6% of the U.S., as the Ebiz open-standards platform nears...
Osmond to keep dancing
Marie Osmond will continue on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," despite the death of her 90-year-old father, George Osmond. Marie missed Tuesday's live results...
Sajak-Judy battle continues
"Wheel of Fortune" remains on top, but "Judge Judy" continues to be a strong #2 nipping at Pat Sajak's heels. Here is the latest...
Huge ratings for battle of the undefeateds
Although it was in the afternoon, rather than primetime, Sunday's CBS broadcast of the NFL game pitting two undefeated teams, the Indianapolis Colts and...
BET chooses VCI Solutions' Orion
VCI Solutions announced BET has chosen VCI's Orion to handle all sales, traffic, and accounting operations for all their channels, including BET, BET J,...
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...
New revenues streams fuel Nexstar
CEO Perry Sook is looking forward to a banner year in 2008 with "explosive growth" from political revenues, but Q3 of 2007 still brought...
Colbert exits presidential race
After announcing plans to run as both a Democrat and a Republican in the South Carolina primary, Comedy Central personality Stephen Colbert only attempted...
Sony Pictures Television, Tennis Channel strike ad sales deal
Tennis Channel and Sony Pictures Television have entered into an exclusive ad sales partnership. SPT will sell Tennis Channel inventory to traditional national television...
Pappas steps aside for new Sioux crew
Waitt Broadcasting's KMEG-TV in Sioux City IA will be going to Alex Aretakis' Siouxland Television LLC. Siouxland is moving in to the option deal...
"Flex" lets NBC claim Pats-Bills game
The NFL has announced its first "flexible scheduling" move of the current football season, moving the November 18th game pitting the undefeated New England...