Football preseason boosts NBC
Get used to this: The NFL is back on NBC Sunday nights, and NBC's dominance of the ratings is only going to grow when...
DirecTV sides with TWC over CBS dispute
You don’t see this everyday: Time Warner Cable rival DirecTV issued a statement 8/3 applauding Time Warner Cable's decision to drop CBS programming from...
CBS-TWC drama intensifies
Time Warner Cable's decision to drop CBS in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Boston, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Denver after the two failed to
UHF cap discount may be headed for scrapheap
One of the anachronistic rules on the books at the FCC has been a policy that counts a UHF outlet as half a
Are cable retrans hardliners playing with fire?
Most MVPDs have come to the conclusion that the fairly modest amount of money they pay to
CBS, TWC go over the brink
At least this time the MVPD in a failed retransmission consent negotiation can’t complain about a broadcaster pulling stations
CBS again calls on Big Brother to win Thursday
All CBS needed was Big Brother and a raft of reruns to score a convincing Thursday night Nielsen win over #2 Univision. ABC and...
KIRO mania? Station overcomes petition to deny license renewal
The wheels of justice turn very slowly at the FCC in some cases, and
Wells Fargo upgrades the new LIN Media
LIN has basically merged with itself, combining LIN Television into LIN Media and morphing from a
Big Bang and Judge Judy share syndie honors
During the week of 7/15, Big Bang Theory again had the most viewers and Judge Judy again had the best household rating. And as...
NBC nips Fox for Wednesday Nielsen win
The Talent at NBC nipped fresh Chef content at Fox by a scanty margin, and NBC won the night by the same scanty margin,...
FCC asks for comment on Media General-Young deal
The merger of Media General and Young Broadcasting does not present any new consolidation issues, and cross-ownership issues also melt away due to changes...
Fox News sues TVEyes over copyright infringement
TVEyes is a $500-per-month TV and radio broadcast search service. Fox News filed the suit on 7/30 in U.S.
NBC uses Talent to capture Tuesday
Fox's dancing show did OK, but NBC's America's Got Talent did better, making NBC and Fox #1 and #2 ahead of Univision. CBS and...
OWN is revenue generator for Discovery
The Oprah Winfrey Network is making money four years after its debut, as stronger ratings and ad growth helped turn around the JV with Harpo and Discovery Communications sooner than expected. Discovery, which has invested more than $500 million in OWN, posted weaker-than-expected second-quarter results and cut its earnings forecast on 7/30, reports Yahoo News/Reuters. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said OWN, which it formed with talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, benefited from two popular new series by producer Tyler Perry, "The Have and Have Nots" and "Love Thy Neighbor."