President Barack Obama told Brian Williams on an NBC News special Tuesday evening that he doesn’t find cable news "very persuasive," TVNewser reports. "I’ve used this analogy before: it feels like WWF wrestling. Everybody’s got their role to play ……
Kelly Ripa and husband Mark Consuelos will help produce TLC’s "Masters of Reception," a reality show focusing on a New Jersey-based catering business, Daily Variety reports. The show will be previewed on June 12 and will continue in the fall…
Comcast will place the NHL Network on its Digital Classic tier beginning with the 2009-10 season, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The agreement has the potential of increasing the possible viewship of the NHL to 10.8 million viewers from 2 million….
KNBC-TV, KTLA-TV and KTTV, owned by NBC, Tribune and Fox, respectively, will announce a local news video-sharing agreement for the Los Angeles market that will begin June 15, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The stations will pitch in photographers and assignment…
Fox News Channel ended May as the top-rated cable news network during a month that included the unraveling of the U.S. auto industry and the announcement of Supreme Court Justice David Souter’s retirement, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Fox News saw…
Heidi and Spencer Pratt, the newlyweds who star on MTV’s "The Hills," quit NBC’s "I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here," the Associated Press reports. They have quit and unquit the show before, but reportedly really mean it…
Google advertising executive Erin Clift is leaving to join AOL next month, where she’ll work with former colleague and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, Advertising Age reports. At AOL, Clift will serve as senior vice president-global sales development, where she’ll also…
The news that KTLA-TV anchor Lu Parker is dating Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa raises questions about conflict of interest and fair coverage, the Los Angeles Times reports. This is the second time Villaraigosa has dated a local LA newswoman…
A federal court ordered Dish Network and EchoStar to pay TiVo $192.7 million in damages and interest after the court ruled Dish must stop using a digital video recording service that infringes on a TiVo patent, Bloomberg News reports. Even…
Broadcast reality television shows are able to better engage viewers than scripted shows, although the latter tends to draw younger and wealthier viewers, MediaPost reports, citing research from ExperianSimmons. Using a scale with the top rating being 500, the study…