4Kids taking over CW block
The CW Network announced a deal to have 4Kids Entertainment program the network's five-hour Saturday morning kids block, beginning a year from now. 4Kids...
This is "Important"
Comedy Central is picking up another spin-off from "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." It has signed for "Important Things with Demetri Martin," which...
NBC Sports extends partnership with Championship Off-Road racing
NBC Sports and Championship Off Road Racing (CORR) have extended their partnership through 2009; it was announced by Jon Miller, Executive Vice President, NBC...
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...