Moonves willing to negotiate with Dish on Auto Hop
Deadline.com says CBS Corp. CEO Les Moonves is taking Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen seriously
NAB counters TWC in exchange of FCC filings
According to the National Association of Broadcasters, “we’ve heard it all before” is the best way to sum up the latest comments from Time Warner Cable as submitted to the FCC. NAB provided a point by point rebuttal.
Debmar-Mercury sells “Celebrity Name Game” to Tribune
The nationally syndicated pop culture game show hosted by “The Late, Late Show’s” Craig Ferguson from co-producers FremantleMedia North America and Debmar-Mercury, has been...
Atlantic City up in arms about sale of local TV station
In the world of Nielsen DMAs, Atlantic City NJ is a somewhat distant outpost of Philadelphia – but it does have one local over-air full power television station. But the proposed sale of NBC 40 WMGM to a company widely believed to be a spectrum speculator has spawned a protest movement.
Big Bang fuels CBS Thursday victory
CBS enjoyed a modest 18-49 margin over #2 ABC on Thursday night. Four other network contestants were in a fairly tight pack to the...
Comcast’s Xfinity to sell movies for download and streaming
Comcast plans to start selling movies via set-top boxes and its Xfinity TV website by the end
Watchdog quantifies incentive auction questions
Do you have questions about how the incentive auction process will work its magic – converting broadcast spectrum to mobile broadband spectrum while enriching the US Treasury? If you said yes, you are not alone – the Digital Policy Institute poses the top ten questions about the process.
CBS wins Wednesday, ABC has top show
ABC won the second hour Wednesday night with a strong performance by Modern Family, but CBS took hours one and three, relegating ABC to...
Viacom reports a strong fiscal Q4
The media conglomerate’s fiscal Q4 increased 9% to $3.65 billion, from both the Media Networks and
Senators go to bat for LPTV
A strongly bipartisan group of US Senators has written to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler urging protection for citizens of rural America by protecting LPTV stations and TV translators ahead of the upcoming incentive auctions.
Manuel Martinez tapped to run Telemundo stations
NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations announced Manuel Martinez has been named President, Telemundo Stations. Since 2012 he has been President GM of WTVJ-TV Miami, an...
Hulu to partner with MVPDs for content
According to CNet and The Wall Street Journal, the video streaming service may be in talks with to MVPD providers including Comcast, Time Warner...
Jimmy Kimmel segment causes controversy for ABC
“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?
Senators double down on ending sports blackouts
Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and John McCain (R-AZ) say the FCC’s willingness to take aim at
Report: Rockefeller bill will enable Aereo
There were information gaps in announcement from Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) concerning