Bob Barker endorses Rosie for TPIR
Life after "The View": Bob Barker has endorsed his friend Rosie O'Donnell as a possible successor on "The Price Is Right," although the newly...
Retrans deal with Verizon FiOS
Nexstar Broadcasting Group has reached a multi-year agreement with Verizon for retransmission services through Verizon's fiber-optic powered FiOS TV service. The deal gives Verizon...
Lehman: TV sports rights update
In this week's "Thoughts To Entertain," Lehman Global Equity Research took a closer look at media company ownership of the broadcast rights to the...
PermissionTV secures 9 Million in growth capital
PermissionTV, an interactive Internet video technology platform provider, announced it has closed a new nine million bucks round of financing. In the past year,...
Nexstar signs FiOS retrans
Having already signed retransmission agreements for compensation by various cable MSOs, Nexstar announced that it has signed a retrans agreement with Verizon for the...
Nielsen says A2/M2 on track
Marking the one year anniversary of its Anytime Anywhere Media Measurement initiative (A2/M2), Nielsen has sent clients a progress report claiming success in its...
"Bravo Media" debuts
NBCU's Bravo has unveiled "Bravo Media," a new global, multimedia content company that will broaden its focus to program and market to every consumer...
The Breast is yet to come from NBC/Telemundo
In what's being called "a landmark multi-platform creative initiative" for NBC Universal, the newly named Universal Media Studios announced that it will produce the...
KNOE Monroe goes to Hoak
Noe Corp. has announced the sale of its CBS-8 KNOE-TV in Monroe LA. The buyer is Hoak Media Corporation, which will add it to...
Satellite TV companies partner for wireless Internet
Seeking to compete with wired cable providers on every level, both DirecTV and EchoStar have signed distribution agreements enable both satellite companies to offer...
Rupert puts primo properties on the block
There may have already been a lot of television station inventory up for sale, but the nine stations that Rupert Murdoch has decided to...
"Mr. Wizard" dead at 89
Mr. Wizard Studios announced that Don Herbert, star of the "Watch Mr. Wizard" TV series of science experiments for kids, has died of cancer,...
"Judge Judy" is #1
No, she didn't beat "Wheel of Fortune," but she did tie the syndicated ratings juggernaut in the latest week's ratings from the Syndicated Network...
China expects four billion TV viewers for ’08 Olympics
Four billion people are expected to watch the 2008 Beijing Olympics on television, a billion more than the Athens Games in 2004, China state...
"Jericho" return set for July 6th
"Jericho," CBS's drama about how residents of a small, peaceful, Kansas town band together to survive in the wake of a nuclear explosion, will...