ABC and NBC start off strong
No longer an also-ran, NBC tied ABC for the 18-49 crown in week #1 of the new TV season. ABC won for Households and...
Morgan jumps to the blog world from CBS
Betsy Morgan is leaving CBS, where she has been heading CBSNews.com since 2005, to go whole-hog into the new media world. She has joined...
Salinas out of Telemundo
Mirthala Salinas was due back at work this week after her two-month suspension from KVEA-TV (Ch. 52, Telemundo) Los Angeles, but instead she and...
Soap time for Simms
Phil Simms, former quarterback for the New York Giants and analyst on "NFL on CBS," will make a guest appearance as himself on CBS'...
Public TV website popularity examined
The Media Audit released an analysis of Public TV viewers and website visitors with a ranking of the top markets for percentage of adults...
MLB testing with Teletrax
Major League Baseball has struck a deal with Teletrax to test its digital watermarking service for evaluating the broadcast TV usage of all of...
Ray Timothy dead at 75
Former NBC executive Ray Timothy has died of multiple myeloma cancer in Seattle at age 75. Timothy, who rose from his start as an...
Judy wins again
The weekly report from the Syndicated Network Television Association (SNTA), based on Nielsen Media Research data, was delayed, but now we have the tally...
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...