Debate rate: Nielsen weighs in

The Mississippi battle of words between John McCain and Barack Obama pulled a 33.2 share nationwide in local television markets where Nielsen maintains electronic...

Watchdog set to poll teachers

Just what are the effects of television on schoolchildren? The Smart Television Alliance (STA) proposes to go straight the people it thinks may have...

Letterman stunt roils internal waters

According to a report, executives at CBS News were not happy when an internal feed of Katie Couric and John McCain prepping for an...

Runway reruns move to Oxygen

NBC Universal’s Oxygen has signed with CBS Television Distribution for exclusive cable rights to “America’s Next Top Model,” beginning in January with the 11th...

KXAS-TV sponsors scholarship

NBC O&O KXAS-TV Dallas-Ft. Worth has partnered with The Lone Star Emmy Educational Foundation to introduce the Harold Taft Scholarship – the first in...

Comcast offers DOD

No, that’s not the US Department of Defense. We’re talking debate-on-demand. Cable MSO Comcast has teamed up with WGBH-TV Boston to make all four...

Moody’s downgrades Young Broadcasting

The credit rating agency notes that the company has not yet announced a sale of KRON-TV San Francisco, which has been on the market since January 2008. With station values down, Moody’s

Dish adds Sony content to VOD

Dish Network announced that its current agreement to carry content from Sony Pictures Television to carry movies and other programming on its pay-per-view services...

NAB refocuses consumer education efforts

The National Association of Broadcasters believes that most Americans are now aware that the DTV transition is coming. It is also aware that one...

Markey tasks FCC on DTV

Key Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) has given the FCC instructions to follow through on four major tasks to keep the DTV transition on track. The points are based on lessons learned in the Wilmington NC DTV test

Pat challenges Judy's supremacy

Pat Sajak's "Wheel of Fortune" pulled into a tie with "Judge Judy" in the most recent week's syndicated ratings, supplied by the Syndicated Network...

Votes don’t eliminate interference

The NAB is ridiculing Google for claiming that 13,000 petitions have been signed in support of allowing the introduction of unlicensed wireless devices into...

More news is good ratings news

Meredith’s WPTV-TV (Fox) Portland, OR launched two additional hour-long newscasts this month and is claiming immediate ratings success for both. The “5 O’Clock News”...

CBS and Tribune team up in Baltimore

You don’t have to have crossownership to work together. CBS O&O WJZ-TV announced a deal with Tribune Company’s Baltimore Sun to share content and...

“Deal” debuts as #1 in first run syndication

NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution and Endemol USA's new half-hour, five-day-a-week version of "Deal or No Deal" debuted as the top new first-run series...