Lifetime announces 2011-2012 programming slate

As part of an aggressive expansion to grow its original programming stable, Lifetime today unveiled its 2011-12 programming slate featuring a powerful line-up of...

GOP South Carolina presidential debate lacks star power

Fox News Channel won’t lack for candidates when it broadcasts the first exchange between Republican president wannabes on Thursday 5/5/11 – but it will...

Competition shows dominate ratings

“American Idol” on Fox and “Dancing with the Stars” on ABC ruled in the ratings last week, making Fox the winner in 18-49 and...

'House' at FOX took second-place Monday at 8pm

Last night FOX aired an original of HOUSE at 8pm that posted a 2.9/8 among Adults 18-49, down -9% from its last original two...

Monday wins goes to 'Dancing With The Star's'

With Dancing with the Stars and Castle, ABC towered over the first Monday of the May Sweep, more than doubling runner-up CBS in Total...

NBC had tough love Monday, 'Law-Order: LA' 3rd

At 8 p.m. ET, "Chuck" delivered a 1.4/4 in 18-49 and 4.1 million viewers overall. At 9 p.m. ET, "The Event" averaged a 1.3/3 in...

Monday Late-Night winner ABC's 'Nightline'

In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 2.9/7; CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman," 3.1/8; and ABC's...

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...