The National Football League has almost tripled spending on lobbying, including hiring its first full-time lobbyist, as its battle with Comcast heats up, Bloomberg News reports. The NFL Net blames Comcast for its lack of national distribution. The NFL Network…
Robert De Niro, Tina Fey and Drew Barrymore will be talkin’ it up on the first week of “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.” NBC Thursday announced the guest list for Mr. Fallon’s new talk show, and not surprisingly, the new…
Jeff Block, general manager of ABC-affiliate KGTV in San Diego, said he was expecting the worst and hoping for the best when it came to yesterday’s transition to digital TV signals. Based on the reaction from viewers, “It’s mostly the…
In an attempt to develop an equivalent to MTV for the Web video generation, online television studio Next New Networks today debuted a network devoted to the creation of music videos, with Verizon on board as the launch sponsor. Called…
Conan O’Brien is getting ready to do his last “Late Night” from New York and is gearing up to be the new host of the “Tonight Show” in Los Angeles, the New York Times says. O’Brien’s task is complicated by…
Despite a steep drop in earnings and being forced to slash its dividend, CBS CEO Les Moonves is looking forward to the upfront market, TelevisionWeek reports. With its ratings up. “believe it or not, we’re are looking forward to the…
Initial reports from some of the 421 TV stations that switched to digital signals on Feb. 17 suggest that some of the fears about the transition may have been overblown, with the FCC saying it received fewer calls—28,000—than they had…
Philadelphia-area television stations will continue broadcasting both analog and digital signals, although some New Jersey and Pennsylvania stations in towns such as Atlantic City and Pittsburgh switched to digital on the original Feb. 17 date, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Stuart…
Boston’s major television stations are opting to wait until the delayed June 12 deadline to switch to digital-only transmission, the Boston Globe reports. A number of New England stations, from the CBS and NBC affiliates in Providence, R.I. to Burlington,…
The transition to digital transmission went smoothly for four San Francisco-area television stations, with fewer than expected complaint calls logged on Wednesday, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The stations that switched on the original Feb. 17 date were independents KOFY-TV,…