Friday, May 22, 2026

Reilly lands on his feet at Fox

Less than two months after being pushed out at NBC to make way for the new team (5/30/07 TVBR #105), Kevin Reilly has been...

Where the rubber hits the air

Usually broadcasters find themselves defending the amount of sexual content on their programming against assaults from watchdog groups who find it all too racy...

Couric admits to some regrets

In a revealing interview with New York Magazine writer Joe Hagan, Katie Couric admits that things haven't gone as she had hoped as anchor...

TV still relevant in Michigan

With so many new choices for news, information and video content, do people still care about TV? Research being detailed at today's Michigan Association...

Measurement returns to Big Easy, post-Katrina

Nielsen Media Research TV ratings returned to New Orleans last Thursday for the first time since Hurricane Katrina, however, agencies will have to wait...

Wolff gets a Fox

Frontier Television Investors has decided to go east, picking up Fox 24/16 WGXA-TV in Macon GA under licensee name Fox24 of Macon LLC. The...

Broadcasters set to defy anti-satire decree

Legislators have decided that they'd rather not see themselves made fun of on television and have banned the use of video footage for the...

Man sentenced for beating TV reporter

Sam Suleiman has plead guilty to beating a Fox 6 San Diego investigative reporter and will spend a year behind bars.   Suleiman was apologetic...

Reporting and making the news

When KVEA-TV (Ch. 52, Telemundo) Los Angeles newscaster Mirthala Salinas reported last month that the wife of LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa had filed for...

Judge Judy on top

It doesn't happen often, but "Wheel of Fortune" was not the #1 show in syndication for the most recent week reported by the Syndicated...

RealNetworks, CBS deliver access to Big Brother 8

CBS and RealNetworks teamed to offer exclusive 24-hour-a-day access to live video feeds inside the Big Brother 8 house. Following last night's premiere, fans...

Azteca moves on

Azteca America says it successfully completed its transition to new affiliates on July 1st in Houston (Una Vez Vas), San Francisco (Granite) and Sacramento...

NBC extends Wimbledon

NBC Sports has reached an agreement with The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club on a four-year extension of its contract to broadcast...

Consumers to foot the bill for new set-top boxes

Cable companies are supposed to be using new set-top boxes that use a special security cards which can plug into boxes provided by competing...

Is MSNBC finally on track?

Having struggled for years, MSNBC notes proudly that it had the greatest ratings growth of any cable news channel in Q2 - the third...