Golden Globes a non-exclusive telecast
The battle between NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA)/Dick Clark Productions peaked Friday as disagreements over Golden Globes money and creative control...
ABC Studios axes 30 producer deals
The next wave of destruction wrought by the WGA strike has just begun: ABC Studios on Friday became the first TV studio to terminate...
A year of double-digit growth
Upstart TeleFutura, the younger sibling of Hispanic TV network giant Univision, is celebrating strong growth in 2007. Primetime viewership was up 20% and Sr....
Belo board sets split in motion
Belo Corporation will complete its previously announced split into two companies (10/2/07 TVBR #192) next month, as the current board of directors last week...
Judy wins again
The battle for the top of the heap in syndication continues and “Judge Judy” has once again bested “Wheel of Fortune.” The weekly tally...
People's Choice audience half the usual
What happens to an awards show forced to scuttle its live ceremony because of the Hollywood writers strike? For the People's Choice Awards, it...
“Law & Order” showrunner in fracas with Fox employee
Looks like tempers are getting a bit frazzled in LA with working employees crossing picket lines daily. News Corp as well as striking writers...
Young KRON kite: SF TV up for sale
KRON-TV (Ch. 4, MyNetworkTV) in San Francisco is on the block. Young Broadcasting Inc. has hired Moelis & Company to shop its largest station....
CBS would Rather not
But it's a swing and a miss to dismiss. Former CBS news anchor Dan Rather wants 20M in compensation and 50M in punitive damages...
Dick Clark still rocks
ABC reports that its 36th annual broadcast of “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” attracted an average audience of 18.05 million Total Viewers and...
TV station revenues expected to rise 11% this year
Typical of the odd-even cycle of years with and without federal elections, BIA Financial Network reports that 2007 television station revenues fell 2% to...
Hey—we almost nailed it!
As TVBR realized the strike is really not going to be resolved before many careers are ruined and an industry crippled, we wrote a...
Globes cancellation costing big bucks; what about Academy Awards?
With cancellation of the Golden Globe Awards on 1/13 because of the WGA strike and plans to picket, the loss will reportedly cost NBC...
Yahoo! and Belo websites to offer local video
Belo and Yahoo! announced a deal that designates 13 of Belo’s O&O stations as the exclusive provider of local news video to Yahoo! News...
WGA, CBS strike tentative deal
CBS and the CBS news employees represented by the WGA yesterday agreed on a new contract for the WGA-CBS news employees. The agreement, which...