Thirty-seven years after Rick Kaplan began his network news career as an associate producer on “The CBS Morning News,” he’s back as the interim executive producer of the show best known for perpetually running a distant third to its competitors…
For NBC’s “Today” morning show, three consecutive weeks of viewership increases at the peak of the presidential primary season added up to the widest non-Olympics February sweeps margin of victory in four years. “Today” averaged 6.06 million total viewers for…
Coming out of the 14-week Writers Guild of America Strike, NBC’s late-night lineup of “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” and “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” saw a big ratings boost compared with rival shows on CBS. For the first…
Digital media company Entriq acquired technology provider DayPort for an undisclosed amount, the companies announced today. The acquisition is one of the latest in a string of mergers in the online video business, fulfilling experts’ predictions that consolidation would begin…
As the broadcast networks try to recover from the Writers Guild of America strike, cable networks plan to be more aggressive during the upfront, selling more original content. Last week, Turner Entertainment Networks announced plans to make its upfront pitch…
When online television network Revision3’s “Pop Siren” premieres March 10, it will follow a familiar formula: The hosts are female and they’re good-looking. Sure, they’re smart, too, but that they’re easy on the eyes is a time-honored programming strategy that…
The South by Southwest Conference, which has become the networking event for the Internet TV business, kicked off in Austin, Texas, over the weekend, and anyone who’s anyone—or anyone who’s trying to be someone—in the online video world likely will…
Six to seven weeks of massive political advertising spending are headed to Pennsylvania. Political observers say Sen. Hillary Clinton’s victories over Sen. Barack Obama in the Ohio and Texas Democratic primaries last week could prompt the wildest ad-spending battle yet…
Fueled on the weekends by NASCAR programming, Speed is changing gears on weeknights. Rather than featuring racing, the cable network’s newest show focuses on the sometimes risky life at a family-owned tow truck company in Chicago. The network’s strategy is…
Despite enduring a variety of humiliating expressions of disapproval from friends, The Insider has adamantly remained addicted to “Big Brother” through seven of the first eight summer installments (she was a year late joining the cult) of the CBS reality…