Hearst pulls the plug on Time Warner Cable
After extending talks beyond the original expiration of their retransmission consent contract with Time Warner Cable on 7/1, all Hearst O&O stations except one...
NBC #2 for the week
Monday Results: From 8-9 p.m. ET, "Fear Factor" averaged a 1.3 rating, 4 share in adults 18-49 and 4.0 million viewers overall. From its...
ABC delivered 4 of the Top 20
Overall: During the week of 7/2/12, ABC delivered 4 of the Top 20 most-watched television shows overall: The Bachelorette – #8, 20/20 – #13,...
Food, baseball propel Fox to Independence week win
Thanks to strong performances by HELL’S KITCHEN, MASTERCHEF and FOX SATURDAY BASEBALL, FOX won the Independence Day holiday week among Adults 18-49. Overall, last...
Fox cooks up a Monday night win
Gordon Ramsay has delivered again for Fox, with strong performances from both of his shows. ABC was 2nd 18-49 and earned total viewer honors.
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Genachowski confirms FCC role in retrans is limited
A number of television topics were raised during the House Communications Subcommittee FCC Oversight hearing. Incentive auctions were a big topic, but the highlight...
NBCU to sell AETN share for $3 billion
We had originally heard $2.8 billion, but that figure has moved up to $3.03 billion, the company said in a regulatory filing 7/10: Comcast...
Judge sends AutoHop suit to California
Dish Network has lost its bid to move the legal dispute over its AutoHop ad-skipping technology in New York. U.S. District Judge
Total TV political take well over half a billion
The national party conventions are still in the future, but already television’s total take in political ad revenue is closing in on $600M
Jennifer Lopez to produce drama on lesbian couple
Lopez has signed up to be an executive producer on an untitled ABC Family dramatic series about a lesbian couple (with numerous children already)...
Big Bang scores 10M viewers
The week of 6/18-24 was a great one for Big Bang Theory, which topped the 10M threshold in terms of viewers and led in...
“Dateline” was #1 on Sunday in timeslot
From 7-8 p.m. ET, "Dateline NBC" (1.1/4 in 18-49, 5.8 million viewers overall) ranked #1 in the time period among ABC, CBS, NBC and...
Sunday night goes to ABC
ABC had the most fresh content, and consequently it had the best 18-49 rating and the most total viewers. Fox wasn't too far back,...
FCC finds for small cabler in good faith dispute
Allbritton Communications’ ABC WJLA-TV in Washington DC sought FCC intervention in a retransmission dispute with a small Virginia cable system owned by Shentel Telecommunications....
Family Guy encores top Sunday
FOX won the night among Adults 18-34 and Teens and ranked #2 in Adults 18-49 with encores of AMERICAN DAD (0.7/2), THE CLEVELAND SHOW...