Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Wall-to-wall Hitchcock for Antenna TV

Halloween is a great holiday for TV, since the greats of the horror movie genre can all be pulled out to scare and scare...

McDonald's launching in-house network

So far, Mark Burnett, BBC America and KABC-TV Eyewitness News will provide content for dine-in customers. The goal is to have local school sports, movie previews and human interest stories.

NBC's 'Sunday Night Football' Vikings at Bears winner

For the sixth consecutive week Sunday Night Football was the No. 1 broadcast on Sunday night, according to overnight data released today by The...

NBC Saturday has rerun crime drama; w/ 'Harry's Law'

At 8 p.m. ET, an encore telecast of "Harry's Law" averaged a 0.4/2 in 18-49 and 3.1 million viewers overall.  From its first half-hour to...

NBC Friday 2nd hour of 'Dateline NBC' better showing

At 8 p.m. ET, a rebroadcast of "The Office" delivered a 0.7/2 in 18-49 and 2.1 million viewers overall.   At 8:30 p.m. ET,...

Television coalition to offer alternative spectrum plan

When it comes to providing broadband access for citizens the US, the Coalition For Free TV and Broadband says that it can do better than

Senators add voices to call for incentive spectrum auctions

In a development that comes as no surprise whatsoever, Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), the top

LIN Media and Mediacom come to retransmission terms

It took about a month and a half, but the wrestling match over retransmission consent between television group LIN Media and cable MSO Mediacom

Hulu non sale seen as good for Dish Network stock

Dish Network’s stock price was up on Friday (10/14). That could well have been because of an announcement late Thursday that Hulu was no...

Wheel rolls on

"Wheel of Fortune" continues as the #1 show in syndication, although reruns of "Two and a Half Men" from the Charlie Sheen days are...

X is the Thursday night Factor for Fox

"X-Factor" was back on Thursday and powered Fox to the 18-49 title. CBS, led by "Big Bang Theory," had the most viewers. Thursday Overnight Nielsen...

FOX No. 2 Thursday w/ 'The X Factor'

Airing the first installment of THE X FACTOR "Judges' Homes" round last night, FOX won its fourth consecutive Thursday night among Adults 18-49, Adults...

CBS line-up wins Thursday w/ 'The Big Bang Theory'

At 8:00 PM, THE BIG BANG THEORY was first in households. At 9:00 PM, PERSON OF INTEREST was first in households. At 10:00 PM,...

ABC Thursday line-up w/ 'Charlie's Angels' third-place

In its time period, Charlie's Angels topped NBC's established comedies... improved the hour for ABC over the year-ago. As each of its Thursday series posted...

NBC's Thursday line-up touch on the weak side

At 8 p.m. ET, "Community" (1.7/5 in 18-49, 3.8 million viewers overall) is up week to week by 13 percent in 18-49 rating (to...