Thursday, June 18, 2026

Scott Pelley to replace Katie Couric on CBS Evening News

Bringing more than 21 years of experience with CBS News to the table, Scott Pelley has been named anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News, CBS News Chairman and "60 Minutes" Executive

Radio One now majority owner of TV One

DirecTV has sold its stake in TV One back to TV One LLC, boosting the relative ownership stakes of its former partners. As a...

Three California NBC stations launch "California Nonstop"

Following in the footsteps of New York Nonstop in 2009 (WNBC-DT2), Chicago (WMAQ-DT2), Philadelphia (WCAU-DT2) and Washington (WRC-DT2) in October 2010, NBC’s three Local...

U.S. Television Homes to be down 1.2 million in 2012

The Nielsen Company has released its 2012 Advance/Preliminary TV Household Universe Estimate (UE) of 114.7M, down from 115.9M in 2011

Watchdog says Comcast is short-changing Hispanics

Free Press believes that General Electric was less than successful when it promised it would increase the amount of local news programming on its

Interrupted CSI: Miami set for Saturday re-airing

CBS announced that Sunday’s episode of “CSI: Miami,” which was interrupted on the East Coast and preempted on the West Coast by breaking news...

Earnings more than doubled for Dish

Dish Network reported that Q1 revenues were up 5.5% to $3.22 billion. But profits shot up a lot more. Net income attributable to shareholders rose...

ABC wins Sunday night ratings

Breaking news, with President Obama announcing that US forces had killed Osama bin Laden, disrupted schedules on Sunday night, but ABC emerged the 18-49...

Fox Sunday repeat animation shows, No. 4

At 7p FOX aired a one-hour encore FAMILY GUY (1.4/5), followed by an original THE SIMPSONS (2.9/8) that showed gains versus its most recent...

Dish settles TiVo patent lawsuit for $500 million

Dish Network and sister company EchoStar have agreed to pay TiVo a half billion dollars to settle their patent litigation, giving Dish a license for TiVo

Saturday late-night encore of 'SNL' matched high ratings

An encore telecast of "Saturday Night Live" (3.9/10 in metered-market households), hosted by Dana Carvey and featuring musical guest Linkin Park, dominated its time...

NBC Saturday 'Law-Order' line-up stable viewership

At 8 p.m. ET, "Chase" captured a 0.6/2 in 18-49 and 3.7 million viewers overall.  Week to week, "Chase" grew by 21 percent in...

Friday Late-Night ratings winner 'Nightline'

In Nielsen's 56 metered markets (the Birmingham market is delayed), household results were: "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 2.8/7; CBS's "Late Show with...

Two-hour 'Dateline' holds for NBC Friday

At 8 p.m. ET, "Friday Night Lights" averaged a 0.6/2 in 18-49 and 3.0 million viewers overall. From 9-11 p.m. ET, "Dateline NBC" reported a...

ABC had solid Friday with 'Shark Tank'

Finishing second on the night on the first Friday of the May 2011 Sweep, ABC posted week-to-week increases of 1.6 million (6.0 million vs....