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`Moneyline’ movingNew York-CNN will move “Lou Dobbs Moneyline” to 6 p.m. (ET) weekdays starting Aug. 27. The lineup change, which is expected to be announced this week, will mean that “Moneyline” starts at the same time as its competitor, CNBC’s…
Daytime audiences continued to beat the heat in syndication land as ratings for court and talk shows were almost all up for the week ending July 22.According to Nielsen Media Research, talk shows led the battle between the two genres…
In a precedent-setting move, a TV station owned by one of the Big 3 networks has given the tentative OK to run a commercial for a distilled-spirit beverage.WJAR-TV, the NBC-owned station in Providence, R.I., will likely run a commercial for…
Even though industry watchers may think reality TV programming is playing to lower-income viewers, NBC still thinks there is a large “upscale” audience tuning in to the much derided genre.NBC this summer has found a strong mass audience and young…
Overbuilder network RCN has decided to adopt digital cable conditional access solutions from two non-American providers, citing its frustration with the stranglehold that two large American cable technology infrastructure developers have on the United States’ digital set-top and conditional access…
Comcast Corp. is struggling to get to square one in its negotiations with AT&T Corp. in its relentless pursuit to buy AT&T Broadband while other suitors begin moving in.In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission late last Thursday,…
Advertising and TV season ratings declines finally caught up with The Walt Disney Co.’s resilient owned stations and dominant cable networks, driving down the operating income at its media networks 29 percent last quarter.The weak economy took its toll on…
Election coverage issues were back on the front burner last week.Turning up the most insistent heat was Rep. Henry Waxman, the California Democrat who ratcheted up a 6-month-old campaign to get internal videotape from NBC that might prove rumors that…
Where have all the viewers gone?As always, when the weather turns hot and the days grow long, viewers turn away from their TV sets, and this is especially the case on Fridays and Saturdays, traditionally the lowest viewing nights of…
Pathfire, a developer of technologies for delivering television content by satellite to video servers, is planning the television industry’s first foray into satellite-to-server transport of syndicated programming.The privately held company is in talks with several content syndicators about potential technology…