Friday, July 31, 2026

Money Tree

Study: Lots of room for retrans growth

Executives at CBS and NBC have talked about large sums of money coming in from retransmission consent and reverse

Luken, Canny, Yankee Comm. sign triple play deal

Luken Communications & Cable Ad Net NY (Canny Inc.) announced a triple play for diginet distribution of the RTV Network, Tuff TV and PBJ...
20th Century FOX

20th Century Fox strikes movie deal with Google/YouTube

20th Century Fox studio has cut a deal to sell and rent its movies and TV shows via the Google’s YouTube and Google Play...
ABC

Bachelor Pad drew its 2nd biggest audience

Monday: Opposite the 2-hour season premiere of NBC’s The Voice and season finales on Fox (Hell’s Kitchen and Masterchef), the season finale and ABC’s...
FOX

Fox came in #2 on Monday

Last week marked strong finales for HELL’S KITCHEN and MASTERCHEF, as well as the solid return of THE X FACTOR.  FOX ranked No. 2...
NBC

NBC: “Voice” up 10% week to week

Monday Results: From 8-10 p.m. ET, "The Voice" (4.6 rating, 12 share in adults 18-49, 11.7 million viewers overall) grew 10 percent week to...

NBC rules Monday

NBC was fastest out of the gate Monday night and was still far ahead when it arrived at the finish line on the strength...
Political Advertising

NAB asks for time out on political posting challenge

Television broadcasters were unsuccessful in getting a stay on new FCC requirements that have major network affiliates in the top 50 DMAs posting political...

The Internet Archive now has all TV news since 2009

The Internet Archive, aggregator and digitizer of data, is making more than 350,000 news programs--from CNN, Fox News, PBS, CBC, ABC, NBC and others--available...
FOX

Fox came in #3 on Sunday

Due to the nature of live sports, Fast Nationals for FOX from 7-8pm are approximate: With an NFL over-run and encores of its animated...

ABC Family greenlights three new pilots

ABC Family, the millennial-skewing network, has greenlit three additional pilots to add to its production slate -- “Terminales,” a one hour drama adapted from...
NBC

NBC Friday results

Friday Primetime Results: At 8 p.m. ET, an encore telecast of “Guys With Kids” is currently averaging a 1.0/4 in 18-49 and 3.3 million...
NBC

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...
Watchdogs

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...