ABC

ABC came in second on Wed.

ABC ranked #2 on Wednesday night in Adults 18-49 to a 2-hour Idol-driven Fox. ABC’s Modern Family was once again Wednesday’s #1 scripted TV...

Idol rules on Wednesday

The audience for American Idol is said to be diminishing, but it still provided Fox with an easy win in the Nielsen 18-49 derby....
Ellen Degeneres

Ellen DeGeneres is top TV personality

The latest Harris Poll survey of television personality star power shows daytime talker Ellen DeGeneres on top, displacing and trading places with Mark Harmon,...

ABC-Univision network readies launch

The new, still-unnamed news and lifestyle network JV between ABC and Univision targeting the U.S. Hispanic market, will begin broadcasting out of Miami in...

Me-TV signs with WJLA-TV DC

After the station dumped the Retro TV network for Live Well TV a few months ago, classic TV is coming back to Albritton’s WJLA-TV...
Marci Ryvicker

What to watch for in MVPD conference calls

According to Wells Fargo analyst Marci Ryvicker, there will be four overriding themes as cable and satellite video services discuss their Q4 results and...
FOX

Idol beats The Voice

FOX’s week was propelled by the return of AMERICAN IDOL which delivered the highest-rated night of the season with entertainment programming and out-delivered all...
Barack Obama

Presidential inauguration draws 20.6 million viewers

Some 20.6 million people tuned in to watch President Obama’s second inauguration on television on Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. While coverage varied by network,...
NBC

Season to date, NBC ranks #1 in adults 18-49

NBC has delivered a 1.2 rating, 3 share in adults 18-49 and 3.7 million viewers overall for the primetime ratings week of January 14-20,...
ABC

ABC scored well with Women 18-34

Overall: During the week of 1/14/13, which included the return of Idol on Fox and the AFC Championship Game on CBS, ABC outdelivered NBC...
CBS

CBS sweeps the week in top demos

CBS swept the week in viewers, adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 with the best deliveries in these ratings measures by ANY network for the...

ABC tastes success on Tuesday night

The two-hour premiere of The Taste propelled ABC to an 18-49 victory Tuesday night that saw Univision snag 2nd, Fox 3rd and NBC 4th....
Disney

Disney movie holdings may benefit its TV side

Walt Disney Company owns ABC, it owns Marvel Studios and the right to make films about its stable of characters, and it owns Lucasfilm...
FCC

Watchdog cries foul on ownership, coordinated retrans

CBS knows by now it made a bad move by forcing CNET's "Best of Show" award disqualification for
CBS

CBS wants to terminate existing retrans deal with Dish

This is what we’ve been talking about: If the networks want to stop Dish’s AutoHop (which unfairly only works on the broadcast networks’