Spanish debate outdraws English match-ups
For the first time ever, candidates for President of the United States appeared in a telecast debate aimed at Spanish-speaking Americans and Univision is...
Insight off the auction block
The current tightening of credit availability for large deals has taken its toll again. Both the Wall Street Journal and Reuters say Carlyle Group...
LPTV is first TV buy for radio group
George Laughlin's GAP Broadcasting is picking up an intact radio cluster that includes two AMs, four FMs and even an independent Class A television...
Dancing shows are hot!
The latest to get into the dancing competition reality genre is NBC Universal's Bravo network, which began casting calls this week in New York,...
Football scores for NBC
The Peacock net won for total viewership, households and pretty much across the board last week with a heavy dose of NFL football. The...
More Power for CBS
CBS has ordered six additional episodes of the primetime game show "Power of 10," hosted by Drew Carey, for midseason. CBS noted that Power...
"If you can't detect, you must reject"
Those are the words of Association of Maximum Service Television's David Donovan, and they sum up the opinion of a coalition of broadcasters, manufacturers...
NFL deal for Ion
Not live games, of course. Those are all spoken for, with big price tags attached. But Ion has secured the rights to air the...
New Spanish network to launch today
The increasingly crowded Hispanic television marketplace in the US is going to become even more crowded today. What make this new network one to...
ESPN signs with Nielsen for PRIZM NE
In just over a month since unveiling a new consumer segmentation feature on its NPOWER television ratings analysis tool, The Nielsen Company announced ESPN...
NBC signs for comedy import
It appears that Ben Silverman is making his mark as Co-Chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios. The question now is whether US...
Chernin still gets the big bucks
Quick, name the highest paid executive at News Corporation. If you said Rupert Murdoch, you lose. He's the boss, of course, but he is...
Taking on ill-advised white space initiative
A high-powered group of groups is getting set to head off efforts to open up spectrum between the cracks in the television band for...
Cox Television forms Cox Cross Media
Cox Television announced the creation of Cox Cross Media. Effective 10/1, the new digital sales company, based in NYC, will initially market and sell...
ABC Entertainment, Warner Bros. strike distribution deal
ABC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television Group struck a digital distribution deal for "Big Shots," "Men in Trees," "Notes from the Underbelly" and "Pushing...