Cox sees lowest customer churn in its history
Cox Communications announced its bundle of video, Internet and telephone services is continuing to improve customer satisfaction and reduce customer defection even in the...
Latin TV switching languages and biz plan
Hispanic media continues to grow by leaps and bounds in the US, but not everyone is making money. Latin Television Inc., a penny stock...
Bricks and mortar for Letterman
Ball State University in Muncie, IN has announced plans to name its new Communications Media Building for the man the local Star Press calls...
Summer surge softens for NBC
A "CSI" rerun on CBS was the top-rated show on TV last week, although NBC's "America's Got Talent" still claimed the largest estimated total...
Martha Stewart announces new series on DIY
Martha Stewart will bring her crafting expertise to a new cable home beginning November as part of a distribution deal announced by Sheraton Kalouria,...
Cox sees lowest customer churn in its history
Cox Communications announced its bundle of video, Internet and telephone services is continuing to improve customer satisfaction and reduce customer defection even in the...
CBS meets expectations with mixed quarter
CBS Corporation CEO Les Moonves is clearly proud of the company's TV operation, bragging in this Q2 conference call about CBS winning another season...
Marvin Zindler dead at 85
Flamboyant consumer TV crusader Marvin Zindler has died at 85 of pancreatic cancer. Zindler was famed in Houston for his hard-hitting reports for KTRK-TV...
Late night host Tom Snyder dead
After years of battling leukemia, Tom Snyder has died in San Francisco at age 71. Snyder began his career as a radio reporter in...
U-Verse is a cable service…maybe
A federal judge in Connecticut has overturned the decision of the state's Department of Public Utility Control and ruled that AT&T's U-Verse must meet...
NAB/MSTV try to keep spectrum clean
Major television trade associations are worried about the introduction of unlicensed spectrum devices into the band used by broadcast television stations, particularly in the...
Bill Flemming dead at 80
Bill Flemming, one of the original announcers for ABC's "Wide World of Sports" has died of prostate cancer in Petoskey, MI. He was 80....
TV talent search on MySpace
Got a great idea for a new TV show? No need to pitch it to the networks directly. Just post your pilot on MySpace,...
Double down on owner with license challenge
In May 2004 Clear Channel's WAWS-TV in Jacksonville FL ran a contest called "Win a Hot Rod For Dad" in which its staffers made...
ABC fine-tunes fall lineup
Returning reality hits kick off the ABC fall season premieres, with a special 90-minute premier of the new season of "Dancing with the Stars"...