Emmis still looking to sell last station
More than two years after announcing plans to sell off its television group (5/11/05 TVBR #93), Emmis Communications still has one station to go....
TV outlook worsening
Yesterday we reported on Wachovia analyst Marci Ryvicker's lowered forecast for ad spending in general. Television is no exception. Ryvicker sees continuing softness in...
Gemstar seeks a buyer
CEO Richard Battista has succeeded in getting Gemstar-TV Guide back to profitability and it looks like principal shareholder News Corporation would like to cash...
Cotton to chair International Emmy Awards
Rick Cotton, Executive Vice-President and General Counsel of NBC Universal will serve as Gala Chair for the 35th International Emmy Awards which will take...
NBC News partners with Channel One
Channel One, which delivers its programming to some seven million students in middle schools and high schools across the country, announced a partnership with...
Portfolio thinner than reported
In our Monday 7/9/07 issue we noted the list of remaining television stations in the Piedmont Communications portfolio as KTVE-TV El Dorado AR and...
Sometimes nothing succeeds like failure
Richard L. Gorman's GOCOM Media is looking to add a station in the Champaign-Springfield-Decatur IL DMA, where it already owns and operates a pair...
Scripps Networks sign with TNS for digital audience measurement
TNS Media Research signed an agreement with Scripps Networks to provide its new second by second digital audience measurement service. The service will leverage...
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...