ABC

ABC dominates final Sunday of season

With the season finale of America’s Funniest Home Videos and the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, ABC dominated the final Sunday of the season in...
ABC

ABC fits the bill Sunday night

The season finale of AFV started ABC out on the right foot, and then three hours of the Billboard Awards sealed the deal as...
David Honig

MMTC takes aim at McCain’s a la carte bill

David Honig of the Minority Media and Telecommunications Counsel says that as appealing as a la carte sounds in terms of being a boon...
NBC

Deb Turness is new NBC News President

Deborah Turness, former editor of ITV News, the UK’s most-watched commercial network news service, has been named President of NBC News. Turness joins CNBC...
Judge Judy

Judge Judy scores syndie ratings win

During the week beginning 4/29/13, Judge Judy beat back both The Big Bang Theory and Wheel of Fortune to win the household ratings derby...
ABC

ABC wins Friday 18-49

With back-to-back Shark Tanks, including the season finale at 9pm, leading into 20/20, ABC won the final Friday of the season in Total Viewers...
NBC

“Office” finale up 30% vs. year-ago

From 9-10:15 p.m. ET, the series finale of “The Office” (3.0/8 in 18-49, 5.7 million viewers overall) filed the show's highest 18-49 rating in...
John McCain

Legal eagle agrees: McCain TV license threat is empty

In an article about John McCain (R-AZ) and his “Television Consumer Freedom Act"
Dish Network

DISH raising $2.6 billion for Sprint; battles SoftBank

Still the highest bidder for Sprint Nextel, DISH Network is getting the money ready in case
FOX

Fox wins Thursday with Idol finale

The Big Bang Theory was only on for 1/4th the time American Idol was, and posted better 18-49 and total audience results, but two...
ESPN

U.S. Open Tennis to ESPN

More sports migrates from broadcast TV to cable: ESPN signed an 11-year contract to exclusively air all rounds of the U.S. Open tennis tournament...
People watching TV

CEA exec’s odd reasoning

After the Senate Communications Subcommittee hearing on the State of Video, an executive with the Consumer Electronics Association came out with a statement attacking broadcasters for thwarting consumers. But it would appear his reasoning is full of holes.
FOX

Fox takes Wednesday with American Idol

The problem for Fox is not that American Idol is suddenly a loser - it still wins Wednesdays - it's just not blowing the...
Viacom

Viacom named in text spam suit

MTV is owned and operated by Viacom. A resident of Tennessee voted in the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, and subsequently received texted promotional messages touting other MTV programming, and the result is a class action lawsuit.
TBS / Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

TBS, TNT to stream online

From their 2013 upfront presentation in NYC: TBS and TNT will soon stream on-air content live across multiple platforms 24/7