John and Cindy McCain’s appearance on “The View” on Sept. 15 was the talk show’s fourth most watched telecast ever with 4.62 million total viewers. The appearance helped the show deliver its highest-rated week in a year and a half…
Kathy Griffin is in talks with other networks to move her comedy specials and series “Life on the D-List” from Bravo, the New York Post reports, citing people it didn’t identify. Griffin, whose representatives declined to comment, may leave Bravo,…
Entravision Communications acquired KREN-TV in Reno, Nev., from the trustee for the bankrupt Pappas Telecasting for $4 million, TVNewsday reports. Entravision, which owns 18 other stations, also obtained a Spanish-language affiliate of KREN and six low-power stations in the agreement….
The delay in letting customers automatically conduct transactions through television advertisements is a result of pricing and common language for the process, not the technology, Media Daily News reports, citing MediaBank Chief Executive Officer Brad Keywell. MediaBank, which process about…
Television station owner Ion Media Networks has proposed testing the cutoff of analog signals in markets such as New York and Los Angeles in advance of February’s switchover to all-digital broadcasts, Broadcasting & Cable reports. NBC Universal, which owns part…
IAC/InterActiveCorp Chief Executive Officer Barry Diller said at a conference this week that television advertising practices, including spots that interrupt programming, will be adopted for Web video, while Web advertisements will continue to be designed to target specific users, the…
Media consultant MediaXchange named former Sony International television executive John Barber as its new creative director, Newsday says. Before Sony, Barber worked at Paramount and ABC, where he oversaw production of television series such as “Roseanne” and “Moonlighting,” the newspaper…
Farmers Insurance Group will sponsor FSN’s yearlong diversity awareness campaign. Original programming, including 30-minute and 60-minute specials, will air during Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct. 15), Black History Month (February) and Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May). A series of…
Broadcasting company stocks exceeded the 4% gains of the broader stock market Thursday after many of the companies made presentations at a Goldman Sachs conference in New York, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Larger companies including CBS, Viacom and News Corp….