DirecTV to up subscriber fees by 4.5%
Its service fees will rise by an average of 4.5% on 2/7 due to increasing programming costs
Fox was #1 with teens
Strong performance by the two-night THE X FACTOR finale this week led the network to rank No. 1 for the week among Teens and...
CBS scores week’s top six dramas
NCIS was the week's top program in viewers – topping Sunday Night Football – as well as the top scripted program in adults 25-54...
ABC up week-to-week
Monday: In the 10 o’clock hour, ABC’s repeat Castle drew a 16% larger overall audience than NBC’s The Voice-fueled Take It All. Castle surged...
NBC dominates week 13 with “The Voice,” football
With "Sunday Night Football" and "The Voice" accounting for the week's
#1, 2 and 3 primetime programs in 18-49, NBC has won the season's 13th
week...
Wall Street ump assesses ION Media’s content strategy
The entities behind television programmer and television station owner Ion Media have been given a basically good bill of health by Moody’s Investor Service,...
More details on networks TWC is culling
TWC CEO Glenn Britt threatened to drop networks with low ratings when their programming contracts expire at a conference 12/3 in New York. “If...
NBC: “It’s a Wonderful Life” wins Monday
"It's a Wonderful Life" (1.5/6 in 18-49, 5.6 million viewers) ranked #1 for the night among ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox in adults 18-49,...
ABC Sunday up 22%
Opposite NBC’s Sunday Night Football (San Francisco-Seattle) and Fox’s big NFL primetime overrun into the first hour of the night, ABC’s 4-hour rebroadcast of...
Gun rights advocates want Piers Morgan deported (video)
Gun rights activists are fighting back. A petition launched 12/21 on the White House e-petition website by a user in Texas accuses Morgan
Big Bang and Wheel score big again
Viewers turned into syndicated episodes of #1 The Big Bang Theory and #2 Wheel of Fortune in droves during the first full week of...
Report: Apple TV sets being tested
The Central News Agency (CNA) of Taiwan reported 12/21 that initial testing of television sets for Apple has started at Chinese manufacturer Hon Hai...
Mack and Bono Mack may be seeking TV gig
It wasn’t the sour economy that separated Connie Mack and Mary Bono Mack from their jobs, at least no directly – it was the...
X Factor hands Thursday night to Fox
Fox won three big categories on Thursday, when X Factor filled its entire two-hour prime time window - 18-49, 18-34 and total viewers. CBS...
Aereo CEO: Broadcaster suits jeopardize innovation, choice
Possibly responding to the latest comments from The Second Circuit Court of Appeals which were skeptical of some of the arguments presented by Aereo,...