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…
The closing days of the long presidential campaign made Fox News Channel the most-watched of all basic cable channels during prime time the week of Oct. 27. Also riding the political wave: MSNBC, whose prime-time lineup got a particularly healthy…
After delaying a decision for hours, the Federal Communications Commission today gave the go-ahead to using the so-called “white space” between broadcast TV channels for new wireless devices, adding some last-minute limits on how the devices can initially be used….
Media buyers and advertisers are preparing for the audience of NBC’s “Tonight Show” to get younger once Conan O’Brien replaces Jay Leno as host next year, Advertising Age reports. The show’s future audience is likely to more resemble those who…
Consumer-products giants such as Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson are starting to skip one step in the creative process by enlisting media companies for new ideas on ways to sell its goods, Advertising Age reports. Such efforts follow…
The Federal Communications Commission denied WSMH-DT, Fox’s affiliate in Flint, Mich., a waiver from the regulator’s requirement for the station to prove its digital signal strength, Broadcasting & Cable says. The station, which also broadcasts into Canada, says its signal…