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...
Hearst arrives at retrans accord with Cox
If there's one big cable operator you'd expect to grasp both sides of the broadcast retransmission issue, its Cox, which also includes significant television...
Historic first for "Everybody Hates Chris"
CW's successful sitcom "Everybody Hates Chris" is all about the childhood of comedian Chris Rock, but one of the things that the show has...
Independent directors say no to Hearst-Argyle buyout
The offer from Hearst Corporation to buy out other shareholders of Hearst-Argyle Television has been rejected by the special committee of independent directors at...
US tries to take Fox case to Supreme Court
The Second Circuit Court in New York shot down the FCC's attempt to reverse its own long-standing policy and penalize broadcasters for allowing fleeting...
2008 looking very different for TV and radio
Is 2008 "a year in the balance" for radio? Bear Stearns analyst Victor Miller asked that question at the opening for the annual Dickstein...
No immediate return to easy credit
There was optimism at the financing session in Charlotte that the current credit crunch will moderate, but no one was predicting a quick return...
Reps bring product placement to the fore
The FCC's designated VNR specialist Jonathan Adelstein (D) has expressed his satisfaction with the 4K fine levied against Comcast for broadcast of an unidentified...
Nielsen plans a 2011 trip
That's trip for triple, which is what the ratings icon plans to do to its National People Meter research base. By 2011, it plans...
Cowles clears a path into California
The publisher of The Spokane Spokesman-Review also owns television properties in the inland portion of Washington State. It is now taking advantage of Providence...
Journal Palms one in the desert
NBC KMIV-TV in Palm Springs CA is getting a little sister. A real little sister. According to brokerage firm Kalil & Co., Multimedia operator...
NAB continues to press white space opposition
The National Association of Broadcasters is continuing its effort to forestall the sudden entry of unlicensed devices into the cracks between licensed television stations....