In the wake of last week’s announcement that the college football Bowl Championship Series would move its big games from ABC to ESPN, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell tells Broadcasting & Cable not to expect any post-season games from his league…
The president and general manager of ABC’s Fresno, Calif., affiliate KFSN-TV resigned Sunday due to racial comments he made while in a jury selection pool. Last week while at Fresno County Superior Court, Bob Hall told a courtroom that he…
The Discovery Channel’s head of development production, Jeff Hassler, left the network on Friday and has been replaced by one of his deputies, Gena McCarthy. Discovery said in a statement that under Mr. Hassler, the network has ramped up the…
Mediaweek takes a look at spot cable advertising firm NCC as it passes $1 billion in sales for the first time. The milestone was reached with the help of this year’s election. “We took in an unprecedented share of political…
When the San Diego Chargers play the Oakland Raiders on Dec. 4, the game will be broadcast in 3-D to viewers in theaters in New York, Los Angeles and Boston, the Wall Street Journal reports. The league is laying the…
Self-help guru Tony Robbins has been signed to create a pilot for a new reality show for NBC, TelevisionWeek reports. The network isn’t talking but a casting notice indicates the series is seen as a transformational-style show like “The Biggest…
Fox is ending its Saturday morning programming deal with 4Kids early and is opting to air two hours of long-form commercials in what has traditionally been a block aimed at kids, Daily Variety reports. Fox will also be returning two…
Talks between the Screen Actors Guild and producers and studios broke off, leaving the television industry one step closer to another debilitating strike, TelevisionWeek reports. It would take a 75% vote of SAG’s membership to authorize a strike. In a…
After 25 years with CNN, Christiane Amanpour is finally getting to anchor her own daily news show, the New York Times reports. The show will appear on CNN International, which is reworking its lineup, the paper says. —Jon Lafayette
Analysts expect prices for high definition television sets to dip during the entire holiday season, the Los Angeles Times says. If holiday sales are week, shoppers who don’t buy the day after Thanksgiving, aka Black Friday, might get another shot…