TV/Cable News

“Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Disney’s ABC late-night show, aired a segment 10/16 where a little blond-haired boy told Kimmel that the U.S. should fix its financial problems by killing all the people in China. Kimmel followed up on the comment by asking the other children on the panel, “Should we allow the Chinese to live?” Now the Chinese government, its citizens and Chinese-Americans are upset and have demanded apologies from Kimmel and ABC, which they did get. But was it enough of an apology?

Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and John McCain (R-AZ) say the FCC’s willingness to take aim at

There were information gaps in announcement from Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) concerning

The video distribution business has three mature platforms – broadcast, cable and satellite

Monday Results (CW carried the Dolphins-Buccaneers NFL telecast in Miami): NBC finished #1 Monday night in adults 18-49 among the Big 4 by a 52%...

CBS won the week in viewers by the largest margin of victory (+2.81m) for the second consecutive week and placed first in adults 18-49...

Overall: During the week of 11/4/13, ABC was #1 in the non-sports Adult 18-49 averages (tied w/CBS), outdelivering NBC by 16% and Fox by...

Tribune says it cut 240 jobs in Q3 as revenues continued to decline, according to a filing on 11/11. Tribune CEO Peter Liguori said in a statement that the results “did not meet our expectations,” despite the company’s strategic moves.

There are a number of avenues via which CBS believes it can continue to grow, and one of them is a dual highway. It’s retransmission consent income – which comes in directly to CBS as a station owner and indirectly via reverse compensation as a major network operator.

John Malone’s Liberty Global is in talks to acquire Intel’s online pay-TV service “OnCue” (currently under development), according to a Bloomberg report: “Malone would...

Mike Gravino, head of the LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition, believes his constituency is being maltreated as the FCC moves forward with incentive auctions, and was able to engage FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler at a recent seminar to press his case.

CNN has laid off top producers from its entertainment group, TheWrap has learned. “They include longtime executive producer Karen Bonsignore and part of her...

Q3 revenues were down for the reorganized Tribune Company, but so were expenses

Disney will end programming SOAPnet on 12/31, replacing it with Disney Junior. SoapNet launched 14 years ago to add eyeballs to its daytime dramas...

The renewal of their distribution agreement will allow both Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks to continue delivery of A+E Networks’ channels to...