White space devices cleared for take-off

The FCC finally got around to voting on opening up the white spaces between television stations in the late afternoon and ushered the item in with a

Ratings agencies pounce on Belo

Soft Q3 results and Q4 guidance from Belo brought a quick reaction from two of the credit rating agencies. Fitch lowered the company right away and Moody’s put it under review for a downgrade

CEO takes a pay cut

Gannett is preparing for more layoffs in its newspaper division and has frozen salaries for executives. Feeling the pain along with the employees, CEO...

Sports lifts Fox in 18-49; CBS goes 5 in a row for HH

CBS claimed its fifth straight win in Households and total viewership, but landed in 3rd for the big money demo, 18-49, behind Fox and...

Hulu mastermind Kliavkoff leaving NBC

George Kliavkoff, the man who helped draw up the blueprint for a string of successful digital media services--from Hulu to Major League Baseball Advance...

Telemundo Station Group’s “A La Mano” adds five

Telemundo announced its Station Group has expanded its "A La Mano" mobile initiative to include a total of ten markets and has extended the...

ABC won election night

Nielsen stats show ABC as the top broadcast network for election night coverage, moving past NBC, which no longer had the political insights of...

White spaces: ABC says it best

Walter Liss, ABC to the FCC: “I write to raise one basic question in this proceeding: Are you really prepared to authorize millions of...

Analog closing in on its final 100 days

We are rapidly approaching the T-Minus 100 Days and Counting point in the DTV transition, and on Monday 11/10/08 an all-star lineup of regulators,...

Belo comes up short

Revenues and earnings were below Wall Street expectations as Belo Corporation reported Q3 results. The TV group is also projecting a sharp drop in...

NBC goes full-season with “Kath & Kim”

NBC has ordered an additional nine episodes of its freshman comedy "Kath & Kim" (Thursdays, 8:30-9 p.m. ET) to complete a full-season order. In...

Call for white space comment period continues

Everybody and his brother has seemingly weighed in on this, asking FCC Chairman Kevin Martin to cool it on opening TV while spaces to...

World Series sets a record…

…but not one that Fox can get excited about. The rain-delayed, five-game event that saw the Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Tampa Bay Rays produced...

Broadcast prevails in carriage ruling

A suit brought by basic cable services against an FCC ruling requiring that over-the-air broadcast television stations be made available to all subscribers to...

Go For The Green launching on Planet Green

Planet Green is introducing a new weekly series, “Go for the green,” a fun, high energy elimination game show where a live studio audience...