Buffalo indy wins carriage battle with TWC
There are ten counties in the Buffalo NY DMA, but Time Warner Cable carries independent WBBZ-TV in only two of them. That’s about to...
Tupelo ABC affiliate closing its doors
Southern Broadcasting has announced that it is pulling ABC WKDH-TV from the airwaves and going out of business by the end of August 2012....
Tears and Betrayal on Bachelor Pad 3
The highlight of this past week’s episode is that I finally figured out who in Bachelor Pad 3 reminds me of Miss Piggy. Any...
Political spending explodes in July
People in the business of influencing the vote took the total 2012 political season local broadcast spending total to date
NBCSN: Team USA Soccer Gold Medal Match top event
The Thursday Team USA gold medal-winning soccer match against Japan drew 4.35 million viewers and had a national household rating of 2.74, the most-watched...
“Wipeout” #2 on Thurs night
Building on its lead-in at 9pm against the Olympics, ABC’s Wipeout ran a competitive #2 against its non-sports competition in the hour to Big...
Fox Thursday ratings
Due to local NFL pre-emptions, Fast Nationals for FOX, ABC and CBS are inflated. FOX aired back-to-back encores of RAISING HOPE at 8pm (1.1/4)...
NFL may have taken bite out of Olympics
The 6.8/20 that NBC pulled 18-49 was the lowest Olympic number we've seen by far, and it happened on a night when viewers in...
Barrydriller.com launches in competition with Aereo; Fox sues
Alki David, FilmOn CEO, has launched Barrydriller.com, an online video service in competition with
Belo makes free air time available to candidates
Television group Belo Corporation reliably includes free airtime for candidates during election season as part of its package of services to the public interest,...
FCC turns down Comcast request for Tennis time-out
An administrative law judge decision in favor of Tennis Channel and against Comcast regarding the tiering of the former is being challenged in court...
Liberman pulls protested program
"José Luis Sin Censura" is no longer on the Liberman programming menu, exiting after an 18-month campaign led by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance...
NBC Wed. gets good late night lead-in
According to the fast official ratings, the 11:06-11:18 portion of last night’s telecast averaged a 6.1 in adults 18-49 and the 11:18-11:30 portion averaged...
Another night, another NBC Olympics win
Once again Univision was the second-most watched national network, but it wasn't anywhere close to NBC. Among the other majors, CBS was the only...
HD TV advertising up 150% since 2010
Extreme Reach, a platform for video ad distribution and ad serving solutions, released its Q2 2012 HD Advertising Trends Report that shows a 150%...