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Ohio State-Michigan Football Game Rocks Ratings

The battle between college football’s two top-ranked teams generated the biggest TV audience for a regular season games in 13 years. Ohio State’s victory over Michigan on ABC averaged a 13.4 rating and 21.8 million viewers, according to a fast…

Sweeps Spark Ratings Spike for Veteran Talk Shows

‘Oprah’ Reaches Season-High 7.7

NBC Universal’s Cast Changes

Loss of Two Execs, Voluntary Buyouts May Lessen Layoffs

NBC Unseats CBS for Sweeps Second Place

Football, ‘Heroes’ Propel Peacock to 21 Percent Gain After Week 2

Pro-Cross-Ownership Congressman Eyes Telecom Panel Post

Virginian Says FCC Consolidation Curbs Should Be Relaxed

Viral Video: Bono’s Shame

TelevisionWeek is trawling video-sharing Web sites to find the hottest clips spreading on the Internet.The setup: Bank of America’s purchase of MBNA in January generated higher earnings for the banking giant, and that stirred some corporate loyalists to break out…

Starcom to Take TNS Second-by-Second Ratings

Starcom USA has signed up to receive second-by-second audience viewing data from TNS Media Research that can be used to generate commercial ratings.Networks and ad buyers are wrestling with Nielsen to see if it can generate useful commercial ratings. TNS…

Cablevision Plans 1.1 Percent Cable Rate Increase for 2007

Cablevision said Friday it will raise rates on its cable TV service an average of 1.1 percent next year, but that its high-speed Internet and phone service prices will remain unchanged. “Because of the strong growth of our cable business…

Google Video Showing School Spirit

Google Video has turned to college football to augment the variety of content on its online video service.The site added a new feature Thursday that lets fans upload their own college football-related videos. The videos will live alongside content that…

New MySpace Tool Protects Copyrighted Content

MySpace is testing a new copyright protection tool with Fox and Major League Baseball Advanced Media that the video site says will make it easier and faster for rights holder to remove unauthorized content. MySpace said it will expand the…