Nexstar’s expanded group produces expanded revenues
Television group Nexstar has added 18 stations since it last reported second quarter financials, and the
Sinclair soars on new acquisitions
Rapidly expanding Sinclair Broadcast Group realized big gains in key financial categories and
Disney grows but has to overcome broadcast to do so
Walt Disney Company had a lot of good things to say about its fiscal Q3 2013, but the performance of its
NBC wins the week in 18-49
NBC has finished #1 in adults 18-49 for the primetime week of July 29-August 4, posting a 1.6 rating, the highest weeklong 18-49 average...
ABC had best week since NBA Finals
Overall: Gaining audience for the 2nd week (+5%), ABC marked its most-watched week since the NBA Finals 6 weeks ago – since w/o 6/17/13....
Bachelorette gives Monday to ABC
CBS's Under the Dome was good during prime time's third hour, but Bachelorette fare was strong all night, giving ABC an easy Nielsen win....
Key senator skeptical of incentive auction timeline
The FCC is working toward holding incentive auctions of television spectrum sometime next year. But during an appearance on C-SPAN’s “The Communicators” series, Sen....
CBS-TWC: A case of “dueling letters”
Now that CBS has been dropped by Time Warner Cable in numerous markets including LA and NYC
Time Warner, Lakers, Dodgers face class action suit
More push from the public for a la carte: TWC customers claim in a class action suit that the costs of Time Warner Cable's...
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