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Scripps split set for July 1

The board of directors at E.W. Scripps has set the first day of July as the date the company will split and become two public ...

Hooray for Wilmington!

It’s praise all around for Wilmington NC, the brave little city that can and will pull the plug on significant portions of its analog television ...

Local news is ace in the hole for LIN

Q1 revenues were up 1% for LIN TV, and while that would have been down 3% if you exclude political advertising, CEO Vincent Sadusky notes ...

"The Laura Flanders Show" debuting on DBS, online

In partnership with Free Speech TV, Laura Flanders Limited announced the national premiere of The Laura Flanders Show." The program melds satellite television and online ...

Rainbow Media to acquire Sundance Channel

Rainbow Media Holdings, a programming subsidiary of Cablevision Systems, announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Sundance Channel from NBC Universal, CBS Corp.’s Showtime ...

Wilmington NC will kick off DTV revolution

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin made it official: Wilmington NC will play DTV guinea pig, pulling the analog plug on four stations at noon on 9/8/08, ...

Viacom’s Spike TV has announced a new slate of non-scripted original pilots with a common theme: They feature “some of the toughest guys on the planet who manage to succeed and thrive under some of the most perilous conditions.” ...

Television powers News Corporation growth

Television division operating income soared 53% to $410 million in fiscal Q3 (January-March) as News Corporation saw overall operating income grow 16% to $1.4 billion. ...

Testing, testing, DTV

It appears that FCC’s Kevin Martin (R) and Michael Copps (D) are getting their wish: A television DMA has volunteered to kick off its DTV ...

Political pouring in for Nexstar

Q1 political revenues were ahead of expectations and April alone already brought in more political spending than all of Q1 for Nexstar, so Q2 is ...

Super quarter for Sinclair

With the Super Bowl on its 20 Fox stations, Sinclair Broadcast Group saw Q1 revenues jump 8.5%. The big game is history, but “American Idol” ...

AMPTP stops talks with SAG

AMPTP has temporarily broke off contract talks with the Screen Actors Guild, calling its demands on DVD sales and online content unreasonable."With SAG's continued adherence ...

WNBC-TV New York will be the first O&O to have its local news operation transformed to program a full-time local news outlet on a DTV multicast channel. ...

Cost-cutting pays off for Young

Operating income shot up 41% in Q1 to $1.8 million for Young Broadcasting, despite a 1.8% decline in net revenues to just under $35 million. ...

Barrington cutting staff in soft economy

Net revenues were up 2.6% to $26.7 million in Q1 for Barrington Broadcasting, but CEO Jim Yager notes that the company is dealing with a ...

NBCU holds onto production team

As battling continues in court over whether the Weinstein Co. had the right to take “Project Runway” to Lifetime Networks, NBC Universal has signed producers ...

The Nielsen Company reported product placements for Q1 rose 6% on primetime programming for the 11 measured networks on broadcast (ABC, CBS, CW, FOX, MNT, NBC) and cable television (A&E, Bravo, HGTV, MTV, TLC). ...

A&E to launch two Emmy screener sites

Academy members are greeted with an abundance of DVDs and box sets from networks and studios this time of year. A&E is offering an alternative ...

CW launching afternoon block with Warner Bros.

Expanding The CW schedule into daytime television, the two-hour weekday block from Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution will air 3-5 pm ET on The CW ...