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...
Peacock struts in summer
It hasn't actually won a week, but NBC is showing rare ratings strength in summer programming, repeating its performance as #2 in both Households...
Henson joining "Boston Legal"
A new character is being added to ABC's "Boston Legal" next season. Taraji P. Henson will join the cast as a series regular later...
Univision expands in the Territories
The multimedia cluster operated by US Hispanic giant Univision on the Caribbean island territory of Puerto Rico figures to get a bit bigger. It...
Big Ten Network sets August 30 launch
Big Ten Network President Mark Silverman announced yesterday that the new cable network will go live on Thursday, August 30th, two days before the...
Court nixes CEO bonus
A federal bankruptcy court last week denied a request from Granite Broadcasting Corporation to pay a 460K bonus to CEO and founder W. Don...
Cable boxing match
11th hour attempts to waive the requirement to separate security functions from other functions of set-top boxes has failed. Those little boxes rented from...
Getting out while the getting is good?
The way for a television company to impress Wall Street appears to be to put itself up for sale. Through the first half of...