The fourth annual New York Television Festival has announced the winners of its independent pilot competition. Dan Levy and Steve Basilone’s “Below the Law” was named best comedy pilot, while “Hit Factor,” created by Jamie Rosenblatt and Neil Hopkins, took…
Gainseville, Fla., finally will get its own NBC affiliate, TVNewsday reports. The affiliate’s station, WNBW-TV, is a new full-power digital-only outlet. The station will be one-third of a triopoly managed by New Age Media, the Web site says. WNBW has…
“The CBS Evening News With Katie Couric” launches its “Presidential Candidates” series tonight. Couric will ask the same questions to Barack Obama and John McCain, with their answers shown back-to-back on the newscast, TVNewser reports. Tonight’s questions are about the…
CNN’s upcoming special “The Next President: A World of Challenges” will feature five former U.S. secretaries of state, Multichannel News reports. The secretaries—Madeline K. Albright, James A. Baker III, Warren Christopher, Dr. Henry A. Kissinger and Gen. Colin L. Powell—will…
The Federal Communications Commission has released several TV PSAs and a long-form educational video to help viewers prepare for the digital television transition. The 30- and 60-second PSAs, produced in both English and Spanish, have been distributed to 1,368 full-power…
Tribune Broadcasting’s New York CW affiliate CW11/WPIX has made bilingual entertainment network LATV available through cable and telco systems in the tri-state area. Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Verizon and Comcast digital subscribers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut now…
CBS News’ “60 Minutes” will celebrate its 40th season premiere on Sunday with interviews with Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama, says the Hollywood Reporter. Steve Kroft will interview Obama and Scott Pelley will sit down with McCain. The…
DVDs make up 81% of video spending, Multichannel News reports. NPD Group’s Entertainment Trends in America report found 41% of the amount consumers pay for movies and video is spent on DVD movie purchases, Multichannel says. Another 11% goes to…
CBS head Leslie Moonves repeatedly tried to calm the nerves of investors when he spoke Wednesday at a conference in New York, Broadcasting & Cable reports. “We’re in a state of transition,” Moonves told the audience. “But having said that,…
General Electric, parent company of NBC Universal, saw its stock stumble on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Shares fell 7%, leaving investors panicking about how its financial arm was faring, the news service said. A GE representative said the company’s triple-A credit…