More watch Dancing than basketball
ABC is crowing because “Dancing with the Stars” drew more viewers Monday than the NCAA men’s basketball tournament championship on CBS. The Eye net...
TV Land renews “High School Reunion”
If you’re a 1989 graduate of Chaparral High School in Las Vegas, your reunion is going to be a reality TV series. “High School...
NBC Local Media is riding the rails
PATH Train riders can now watch “NBC in Transit” as they make their daily commutes between Manhattan and New Jersey. The venture by NBC Local Media’s NBC Everywhere will tap content from various
Nexstar gets an upgrade
A few days ago it was Barrington, now it’s Nexstar getting an upgrade of its credit rating. Standard & Poor’s Ratings Service raised the corporate credit rating for Nexstar after reviewing the impact
Two big DTV dates next week
4/13/09 will mark the T-minus 60 days and counting point for the endgame of the DTV transition, and with it will come daily countdown clocks at the hundreds of television stations running side-by-side
Ion TV breaks network viewership records
First quarter 2009 has been a record breaking time for ION Television, with double digit growth in primetime viewership among households as well as...
Fox Reality Channel launches “The Cindy Margolis Dating Project”
Fox Reality Channel is set to begin production and casting for its newest original series, The Cindy Margolis Dating Project (working title). The dating...
CW to roll-out summer series
For the first time ever, The CW will debut a new series for the summer. In fact, it will bring out two new ones...
Estrella TV signs Miami affiliate
Liberman Broadcasting’s soon-to-launch Estrella TV network has now nailed down all of the top five Hispanic markets in the US. It will be carried...
March Madness ratings up for CBS
Saturday’s NCAA Tournament Semi-Finals games gave CBS an easy win in primetime and posted ratings up 7% from a year ago. CBS can hope...
Is OK TV news deal OK?
The state of Oklahoma is running some ads with an Oklahoma television broadcaster. Nothing unusual about that – but does the arrangement spill over into news coverage? Some in are concerned
Stay in and watch a movie
Another movie scored well in syndication in the most recent week. "Enemy of the State," a 1998 spy flick, tied the "Oprah Winfrey Show"...
Dueling DTV apps get a workout month
Four sets of television stations with mutually exclusive DT engineering applications have been given 30 days to come up with technical modifications or to...
PTC objects to Osbournes revival
The Parents Television Council counted 49 “harsh bleeped and unbleeped expletives and partially-obscured obscene gestures” during the opening round of “Osbournes: Reloaded,” which Fox...
TLC to air bio of Capt. Sullenberger
TLC announced it has secured the exclusive rights to “Brace for Impact,” a bio-documentary of Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger, III. Sullenberger rose to national...