NBC plans to run out the Trump schedule despite White House designs
The finale of the latest edition of “Celebrity Apprentice” is scheduled for 5/22/11, and NBC would like to let the program run its course....
Super Bowl gave News Corp. big TV boost for quarter
Operating income was down for News Corporation in its fiscal Q3 (January-March), but don’t blame the television division. Its revenues and profits shot up,...
Moody's turns positive on Belo
Moody’s Investors Service wasn’t concerned in the least that Belo Corporation had resumed paying a cash dividend to shareholders. It’s looked at the company’s...
NBC won Tuesday night (really!)
It wasn't sports or a special that carried NBC to #1 in the 18-49 demo on Tuesday, but regularly scheduled programming, led by "The...
Week 32: Broadcast 94, Cable 6
The most recent week saw only six cable/satellite programs make the top 100 in the 18-49 demo for all of television, but four of...
Pac-12 in $3B sports deal with ESPN and Fox Sports
The Pac-12 Conference (effective with the addition of two more schools to the Pac-10) announced a landmark broadcast and national cable TV package with ESPN and Fox Sports Media Group
'Nuestra Belleza Latina' strong reality for Univision
Growing are the ratings for the fifth season of this Univision production, airing each Sunday night from 8 to 10 p.m. ET/PT (7 CT). ...
Fox Super Bowl fuels Q1 gains for Sinclair
Executives at Sinclair Broadcast Group see cause for caution in the immediate future, but during the first quarter of 2011, the group’s Fox-heavy station...
'NCIS' leads CBS to Tuesday win
"NCIS" Wins Its Time Period in Viewers and Adults 25-54.
"The Good Wife" Posts Its Best Adult 18-49 Rating since October.
CBS won Tuesday in viewers...
'Dancing With the Stars' delivers ABC second-place Tuesday
ABC finished as the 2nd-most-watched network on Tuesday to CBS, outdrawing NBC by 1.1 million viewers and Fox by 5.5 million viewers.
Up over the...
Fox's 'Glee' back w/ original episode controls teen demo
FOX aired originals of its Tuesday comedies last night and ranked #2 among Adults 18-34 and #1 in Teens.
At 8p GLEE posted a 3.6/10...
NBC building audience with 'The Voice'
From 9-11 p.m., "The Voice" (5.6/14 in 18-49, 12.4 million viewers overall) grew in its second week by 10 percent versus last week's debut...
Tuesday Late-Night out in front winner 'Nightline'
In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 3.1/8; CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman," 2.9/7; and ABC's...
Big ratings for NBA Playoffs first round
The NBA Playoffs on ESPN have averaged a 2.7 rating; 2,708,000 household impressions; and 3,667,000 viewers to become the network’s highest-rated and most-viewed first...
Comcast executives bullish on TV
NBC is a fixer-upper, to be sure, but Comcast executives say the ad market in 2010 and now in 2011 has been better than they had modeled when acquiring control of NBCUniversal from GE, so they are bullish in the long term on the