Fox tops adult demo with SYTYCD
With the first SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE live performance show, FOX won last night among Adults 18-49, Total Viewers, Adults 18-34 and...
Fox grabs Wednesday with two hours of Dance
NBC' Talent show was roughly on par with Fox's Dance show, but Fox's show ran for an extra hour. In the end, Univision grabbed...
Uncertain future may underpin Viacom/DirecTV battle
Program sources want to maximize income, and cable, satcasters and telcos want to hold down costs
Judge denies networks’ injunction against Aereo
District Court judge Alison J. Nathan has denied (7/11) a request for a preliminary injunction by the major broadcasters that would have shut
ABC’s Wipeout marked a summer-high
The Tuesday premiere of ABC’s Wipeout marked a summer-high in the 8 o’clock hour in Total Viewers, while delivering the Net’s strongest performance with...
NBC: “Talent” up 17% week to week
Tuesday Results: From 8-10 p.m. ET, “America’s Got Talent” (2.7/8 in 18-49, 10.4 million viewers overall) grew versus results for the prior Tuesday by...
Lack of incentive auction info draws strong criticism
Greg Herman of SpectrumEvolution.org wants to know why the FCC is requiring LPTVs to invest in digital plants when they may soon cease to...
Baseball All-Stars win Tuesday for Fox
A strong performance from NBC's Talent show was not enough to overcome MLB's mid-summer classic. Univision grabbed third place ahead of ABC and CBS.
Tuesday...
CBS announces 2012-13 premiere dates
CBS will premiere virtually all of its new and returning series during official premiere week (Sept. 24-30). The new comedy PARTNERS premieres Monday, Sept....
NAB asks courts to stay political file posting
The NAB has already asked the FCC to stay its new rule requiring broadcast television stations to post political advertising information online, and now...
Confidence in television news drops to new low
Americans' confidence in television news is at a new low by one percentage point, with 21% of adults expressing a great deal or quite...
Retrans impasse: Basic cable/satellite edition
There is a very good chance that as of midnight tonight (it’s 7/10/12), 26 Viacom basic cable channels will disappear from the DirecTV lineup...
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,...