“Idol” names third judge
It’s official: the judges have been named for the next season of Fox’s American Idol. Jennifer Lopez returns to American Idol XIII as a...
Under the Dome puts CBS over the top
New material from CBS and NBC put the two networks #1 and #2 on a rerun-laden Monday night. Univision just beat out ABC to...
Sinclair sees NewsChannel 8 as a seed
When all of its dealing is done, Sinclair Broadcast Group will be pushing the national TV household reach cap of 39%, giving it a...
CBS, Time Warner Cable sign carriage deal
Well, it’s been a month of blackout in multiple markets, but on 9/2 CBS Corp. and Time Warner Cable and
Another syndication split decision
The Big Bang Theory maintained its place atop the total viewer chart during the week of 8/12/13, but Judge Judy also enjoyed an encore...
Small businesses advised to use television
Most readers of RBR-TVBR are of one mind when it comes to businesses using broadcasting – they’re for it! But our readers are thinking...
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.