Wednesday, July 1, 2026

2011 report card for Discovery en Espa

Discovery en Español is trumpeting its growth in the past calendar year. It is still the #2 Hispanic cable network, but it proudly notes...

ING NYC Marathon returns to live national TV

As part of new five-year deal with Disney’s ESPN/WABC-TV NYC, the ING New York City Marathon will be shown on live national television in...

Football wins again on Sunday

With no "Sunday Night Football," NBC slipped in the Sunday ratings, but CBS did have football – the NFL playoff game – so it...

New Fisher-Price TV device for the preschooler on the go

The new Fisher-Price Kid-Tough Portable DVR makes it possible to record kid-friendly program from a cable or satellite source and take it wherever the...

Fox to add animated series against SNL

Fox, home to The Simpsons and Family Guy, is creating a Saturday night animation lineup that will go against NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Fox...

Judge Judy battles back

The top two held steady - "Wheel" and "Bang" - but "Judge Judy" bumped "Two and a Half Men" out of the #3 spot...

Overtime of NFL Steelers-Broncos game highest ratings for CBS

The NFL on CBS and the coverage of Denver's dramatic overtime win over the Steelers in the AFC Wild Card game scores the highest...

ABC Sunday w/ Once Upon a Time continues to impress

Opposite a sports-propelled CBS with its enormous overtime NFL Wild Card playoff overrun (Pittsburgh Steelers-Denver Broncos) that went into the 8 o'clock hour, ABC...

NBC's preview Thursday drama 'The Firm' solid showing

From 7-9 p.m. ET, "Dateline NBC" averaged a 1.2/3 in 18-49 and 6.2 million viewers overall.  From its first half-hour to its fourth, "Dateline"...

FOX Sunday animation draws the young demo

FOX aired a mix of encores and originals of its animated comedies from 7-10pm last night.   BOB'S BURGERS (R): 0.7/2                                                                THE CLEVELAND SHOW (R):...

Dish streaming VOD to iPad

Dish is known for innovation, variety and value and has raised the bar - RBR-TVBR Observation: To the consumer, a screen is a screen. They want to be able to watch whatever they want, whenever they want on whichever screen is convenient.

More animation for Fox

You could argue that it was an animated series, “The Simpsons,” which brought the upstart network Fox to the attention of viewers decades ago....

NBCU programming on the bubble

Greenblatt defended the decision to hire Howard Stern as a judge on

Pat Buchanan kept in suspense at MSNBC

Anybody has been wondering about the status of conservative commentator and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan at MSNBC, it is suspended indefinitely. It ties into a book he wrote

Comcast AWS stockpile was investment, not infrastructure

RBR-TVBR observation: The obvious question remains: Why the big rush to chase television stations off their current dial position when the companies that want to do the chasing are sitting on unused spectrum?