Sen. Barack Obama’s acceptance speech after winning the presidential election last night had earned more than 4.8 million viral video views 24 hours after the clip began to circulate online, according to data from online video measurement service Visible Measures….
CNN.com won the online news race on Election Day for TV networks, ranking as the most visited Web site on Nov. 4 among all TV network Web sites, with MSNBC.com second, said online audience measurement firm Hitwise. CNN.com’s traffic rose…
Comments made by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., during an interview with Fox on Wednesday have prompted concerns whether a new Fairness Doctrine will be imposed on broadcast networks and talk radio, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Sen. Schumer told Fox the…
An estimated 78.58 million people watched prime-time coverage of the historic election on 14 broadcast and cable networks Tuesday night, according to final national averages from Nielsen Media Research. That’s a dramatic increase from the 59.17 million who watched Election…
Fox Broadcasting parent News Corp. said today that its fiscal first-quarter earnings fell 30% as a drop in profit from its local television operations more than offset a boost in earnings from cable network programming. The company, factoring in the…
ABC News has appointed Jake Tapper as senior White House correspondent, Martha Raddatz as senior foreign affairs correspondent and Jonathan Karl as senior congressional correspondent. All three correspondents will take on their new assignments effective immediately. Mr. Tapper, who joined…
Newly elected members of Congress can provide real change and dramatically affect the future of television as some members of the Senate Commerce Committee fight for their political careers in close Senate races, TVNewsday reports. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, longtime…
Unlike the past two presidential elections, television network coverage of Election Night 2008 proved to be high on history and melodrama and low on voting irregularities, petty arguments and premature electoral vote calls, the Associated Press reports. “It’s the end…
“The View” co-host and John McCain supporter Elisabeth Hasselbeck took her candidate’s loss Tuesday night in stride and with grace, speaking admiringly of President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday’s edition of the talk show, the Los Angeles Times reports. “Today is…