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The CW announced the signing of 17 affiliates last week, including seven owned by Acme Communications. Four separate deals announced last week lifted clearances for The CW to more than 58 percent of the U.S. TV universe, including 19 of…
Fox is ordering a full season of its medical drama “House” for the 2006-07 broadcast season. It will be the series’ third season. The NBC Universal Television Studios one-hour has been a strong performer on Tuesdays in the post-“American Idol”…
National Association of Broadcasters President and CEO David Rehr said Friday that one of his top goals as the association’s new chief will be to promote station efforts to get retransmission consent compensation from cable. “It is only a matter…
After “Joey’s” underwhelming performance this week, NBC is pulling the “Friends” spinoff after only one airing in its new Tuesday 8 p.m. (ET) time slot. For March 14 and March 21 NBC will run an episode of the reality series…
NBC is adding an additional eight episodes to its initial season order of its game show “Deal or No Deal” and will now officially schedule the hour-long series on two nights, Mondays and Fridays at 8 p.m. The extra episodes…
Robert Alter, the founder of the Cabletelevision Advertising bureau, died at home in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., on Thursday from the effects of ALS. He was 77. Mr. Alter served as the CAB’s first president and CEO from 1980 to 1991. Most…
Coming off a year that its chief executive described as “a perfect storm of negativity,” Young Broadcasting said Friday that it posted a wider fourth-quarter loss, hurt by a weak advertising market, a decline in network compensation and an absence…
Bravo has acquired the exclusive rebroadcast rights to HBO drama “Six Feet Under.” Bravo plans to run all 63 one-hour episodes of the series beginning this fall. “‘Six Feet Under’ represents the artistic, creative and critically acclaimed series that defines…
Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine signed into law Friday a bill designed to simplify the process of obtaining a video franchise license by ensuring local governments approve franchise applications more quickly.The new law mandates that local governments in the state approve…
Shares in Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications were up more than 3 percent Friday amid speculation that a group of private-equity firms were teaming with Mexican media company Grupo Televisa to make a bid for Univision.Univision shares climbed $1.09, to $34.01…