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“American Idol,” “The Bachelor,” “Joe Millionaire,” “Average Joe,” “The Simple Life” and “Survivor” were the most talked-about broadcast television hits of the year, proving that reality programming is no longer the ugly stepsister of scripted programming on the networks. At…
The big syndication experiment of this fall will get another go-round.NBC Enterprises has renewed reality strip “Starting Over,” which follows a group of women who move in together as they restart their lives, for a second season on the NBC…
With the prospect of at least a temporary break from their long-pending regulatory battles, the networks and their affiliates are ending 2003 on a compromise note, thanks to a last-minute legislative deal that would permanently cap national TV ownership at…
It was another wacky year in the world of new TV technology. Every time you picked up the remote or your favorite industry publication, you came across something strange but true. Whether it was stress, or perhaps due to sitting…
More than 30,000 viewers entered the Hallmark Channel’s “Hollywood Holiday Sweepstakes” by phone during the first four weeks of the contest, which also benefited cable systems. Viewers were encouraged to watch Hallmark Channel programming on Sundays from Nov. 23 through…
The Walt Disney Co. said it expects to include in its fiscal first-quarter numbers the financial results of its theme parks in France and Hong Kong as a result of a new accounting rule interpretation, and warned that the same…
The following is a list of viewership figures for some of the network newsmags’ biggest “gets” this season, according to Nielsen Media Research:* Mike Wallace’s interview with Lawrence Taylor, airing some dirty linen from Mr. Taylor’s NFL days, on CBS’s…
HBO dominated the Golden Globe television nominations last week with shows like “Sex In The City” and the miniseries “Angels In America,” but a handful of basic cable networks and some struggling broadcast shows might be the award’s biggest beneficiaries….
Nielsen Media Research ratings for selected television stations in the top 15 U.S. Designated Market Areas during November Sweeps.See printed publication for chart
Showtime Networks is near an agreement to acquire Gerald Posner’s controversial best seller “Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11,” sources close to the deal said. The book is an exhaustive chronicle of two decades of intelligence failures and…