NBC: “Sunday Night Football” leads the night
Currently available fast-affiliate ratings are not time zone-adjusted and typically understate live NFL telecasts. Despite that, NBC is currently #1 for the night among...
Football rules Sunday to NBC’s benefit
NBC's prime time game was an easy Nielsen winner Sunday night, and CBS and Fox benefitted from spillover NFL action. Only ABC had no...
Miami Spanish TVs get high marks from watchdog
Josh Stearns of Free Press journeyed to Miami to check the political files of a trio of Hispanic television stations. Despite the controversy associated...
Netflix, A&E may be at impasse over licensing deal
Shows like “Storage Wars” and “Pawn Stars” are at stake: Netflix licenses to stream A&E programming from A&E and History Channels are set to...
Syndication in motion: Judge Judy rises
Judge Judy surpassed Wheel of Fortune in total viewers during the week of 8/27-9/2 to grab 2nd place on that score; and she surpassed...
American Idol 12th season judges named
The speculation can now end: When AI’s 12th season debuts in January, Mariah Carey and returning judge Randy Jackson will be joined by
Bachelor Pad finale shocks fans: Winner takes all in stunning twist
Woah, the Bachelor Pad finale this week gave me serious heartburn from all the stressful moments.
First things first. The Husband got choked up listening...
FCC degrades two more Class A TVs
KFLZ-CA San Antonio TX and KGLR-LP Lubbock TX were Class A television stations. Both failed to place children’s programming info in their public files,...
Ratings matter, and slowed Disney over the summer
Walt Disney Co. is not expecting to meet its goals for its fiscal Q4, due to weaker-than-anticipated ratings for its networks. However, things are...
Presidential race is local TV spending leader
Another week, another few steps closer to the $1B threshold for local television political spending in
NBC: “Talent” tops Fox’s premieres
Thursday Results (Fox carried NFL football in Milwaukee): From 8-10 p.m. ET, the season finale of “America’s Got Talent” (2.4/7 in 18-49, 10.5 million...
Fox Business Network gets a re-design
RBR-TVBR exclusive: On Monday, Fox Business Network will be undergoing a redesign. It’s going to a single 16x9 feed (previously, they had both an...
NBC’s talent out-Foxed on Thursday
The talent on X Factor pulled in a better 18-49 rating than did NBC's America's Got Talent (which did get more total viewers), giving...
ABC News sued for $1.2B over “pink slime” stories
ABC News was hit with a $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit 9/13 by South Dakota meat processor Beef
Dish CEO Clayton fires back at CBS
The day after CBS Corp. CEO Les Moonves threatened to pull CBS off of Dish Network when the contract runs out if Dish’s AutoHop...