At 11 p.m. EST, just after polls in the Western states had closed, Democratic Illinois Sen. Barack Obama was projected the 44th president of the United States by all the national TV news organizations covering the general election. Inside the…
Fox News Channel called what may turn out to have been the key state in the U.S. presidential election at 9:22 p.m. East Coast, declaring Ohio had gone to Democrat Barack Obama and quoting Republicans who had said there was…
Major League Baseball’s new television network is nearing an agreement to bring Fox broadcaster Matt Vasgersian on as its first studio host, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Mr. Vasgersian, play-by-play announcer for the San Diego Padres, also has worked with the…
CTAM will eschew its tradition of giving its annual chairman’s award to an individual and will instead award it collectively to the volunteers who run the group’s 15 chapters in the U.S., Europe and Caribbean, Multichannel News reports. The award…
Outdoor Channel agreed to a five-year deal with the National Shooting Sports Foundation to continue producing the shooting series “Shot Show TV,” Multichannel News reports. Additionally, the network will make video-on-demand versions of the series while premiering the show on…
Tribune Co.’s Los Angeles television station KTLA has hired former KCBS executives Patricia Tang and Nancy Caldwell to help run its sales operations, TVNewser reports. In addition to Tang and Caldwell, who will be general sales manager and local sales…
“The Bachelor” and the formerly untitled Ashton Kutcher/Tyra Banks project, now called “True Beauty,” will get cozy on Mondays, as the two will premiere on Monday, Jan. 5, ABC announced today. The 13th iteration of the program, “The Bachelor” will…
Ratings for Sunday’s episode of HBO drama “True Blood” was up 63% from the season premiere’s ratings, Broadcasting & Cable says, drawing 2.35 million viewers in live plus same-day data. The show is averaging about 6.4 million viewers, including replays…
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said he’s looking into the pricing practices of cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner Cable as well as Verizon, the Associated Press reports. Martin says the multichannel service operators may be confusing customers…
DirecTV’s third-quarter subscriber growth slowed 20% from a year earlier due to spending cutbacks on higher-end television services, Multichannel News reports, citing Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett. Slowing growth at satellite TV providers like DirecTV, which reports earnings this…