Ratings for ABC’s “The Bachelor” have rebounded, making it one of the network’s most watched shows, TelevisionWeek reports. Casting has begun on the 14th installment of the series, making it a lock to be renewed, TVWeek says. —Jon Lafayette
John Malone’s Liberty Media, which controls DirecTV, is in preliminary talks with debt-ridden Sirius XM Radio, which has already been approached by satellite TV rival EchoStar, the New York Times reports. Sirius XM has rebuffed EchoStar’s advances and Sirius CEO…
Major League Baseball and the National Football League may have protected themselves from a possible bankruptcy of Sirius XM Satellite Radio by arranging to have future payments placed in an escrow account, the New York Times says. Sirius has put…
The Federal Communications Commission rejected requests from 123 stations that wanted to switch to digital on February 17, TelevisionWeek report. The move came after President Obama signed legislation pushing back the deadline for the changeover to digital TV to June…
A task force of top ad buyers and sellers organized by the American Association of Advertising Agencies is planning to recommend the local spot-buying market switch from using cost-per-point (CPP) to cost-per-thousand (CPM) as its metric, MediaPost reports. The change…
Tribune-owned WPIX-TV, New York, will disclose that the television station has been receiving gift certificates from restaurants in exchange for being profiled on its series “Dining Pix,” the New York Daily News reports. Before this, the weekly series profiled restaurants…
ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson said that in a marketplace full of bloggers and citizen journalists “I believe in a fundamental way that the mainstream media is more important than ever—the much maligned mainstream media,” Politico reports. Speaking at the…
The geeks on CBS’ “Big Bang Theory” are getting a visit from terminator Summer Glau of “The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” Entertainment Weekly reports. Glau plays herself in the March 9 episode. —Jon Lafayette
CBS and ABC picked up pilots for several projects, TelevisionWeek reports. Cedric the Entertainer and Kelsey Grammer are involved in ABC shows, while Shawn Ryan could return to TV with CBS, TVWeek says. —Jon Lafayette
“Brothers & Sisters” co-showrunner Alison Schapker says that Balthazar Getty is taking time off from the ABC show, but he and his characters are “in no way permanently gone,” the Los Angeles Times reports. “This is just the logical end…