Rupert Murdoch takes a “pay cut”
The News Corp. Chief’s compensation for the latest fiscal year (ended 6/30) dropped 3.7% to $28.9 million. He had made $30.0 million in the...
Digital increases viability of OTA TV reception
The switch from analog to digital broadcasting by America’s local broadcast television service was a game-changer in a number of ways – and one of the biggest changes is that it is now much easier for residents of large cities to receive local broadcast off air. And that has an impact all its own.
Big time college football worried about TV
There has been a slight decrease at the turnstiles of college football stadiums of late, according to USA Today, and officials in charge of...
Twitter buys Trendrr for better read on TV tweets
Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a data analysis company, to better leverage users' tweets about television to draw in more advertisers. Trendrr analyzes data from...
LPTV group may challenge incentive auctions in court
According to the LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition, the stations it represents are imperiled
Stakes defined in CBS/TWC battle
SNL Kagan has seen retransmission consent impasses before, but none quite like
Fired Fox News PR exec issues warning
Fox News Channel says it terminated its EVP Corporate Communications
FCC offers an out to liable Class A stations
During the past two years, the FCC has opened a slew of cases against Class A stations
Al Jazeera America, Fox Sports 1 debut with tepid numbers
Despite hundreds of millions invested by the government of Qatar (we’ve all seen and heard the ads), Al Jazeera America drew only a tiny fraction of its total audience reach in the first few days of the 8/20 launch.
CBS sweeps the week
CBS was first in viewers (for the ninth consecutive week), adults 18-49 and adults 25-54, registering its largest audience and its highest adults 18-49...
NBC: “AM Ninja Warrior” up 13%
NBC has finished #2 in adults 18-49 among ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox for the primetime week of August 19-25, led by NBC Sports’...
ABC’s Mistresses up 29%
Monday: Spiking 29% over its lead-in at 10pm in Adults 18-49, ABC’s Mistresses returned after being pre-empted for 2 weeks to dominate NBC’s Siberia...
ESPN, Turner Sports want out of NASCAR contract
This you don’t hear very often in today’s fierce completion for sports rights
Activists weigh in on political ad disclosure
A group of groups called Public Interest Public Airwaves Coalition has petitioned
Another plea for FCC intervention in retransmission consent
An organization called the Independent Television