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The new-network affiliate wars heated up with the announcement Thursday that Fox’s MyNetworkTV has signed as affiliates 17 of the 24 Sinclair Broadcast Group owned-or-operated stations that have been affiliated with The WB or UPN, which is merging into The…
Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications reported a sharp slide in fourth-quarter profit compared with a year earlier, as charges related to investments, job cuts and its ongoing fight with Mexican media company Grupo Televisa weighed on results.The Los Angeles-based company, which…
Debar-Mercury is partnering with writer and actor Tyler Perry to develop a half-hour comedy for first-run syndication.Mr. Perry, a well-known playwright and stage actor on the urban theater circuit whose feature films “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” and “Madea’s…
“Good Morning America” co-anchor Charlie Gibson, a 31-year veteran of ABC News, will receive the Paul White Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association at a dinner April 24 during the RTNDA@NAB convention in Las Vegas.“Charles Gibson brings tremendous experience…
NBC’s “Today” show skated to a big ratings win for its final Olympics-driven week in Italy, averaging more than 6.9 million viewers, according to data from Nielsen Media Research. The performance was the NBC’s morning show’s best Olympics week ever…
A study by the watchdog Parents Television Council released Thursday said that entertainment programming for children on major broadcast and cable TV networks includes an average of 7.86 violent incidents per hour-almost twice as much violence as prime-time network programming….
Jean Pool, chairman of the American Association of Advertising Agencies Media Policy Committee, called Thursday for traditional media to fully disclose measurement research, including commercial ratings in addition to program ratings. “Traditional media has had commercial ratings data for years…
HBO has signed stand-up comedian Dane Cook to a production deal that includes series and specials, the network announced Wednesday. The projects include a feature-length stand-up performance film, development of a scripted series and documentary series “Tourgasm,” which follows Mr….
Digital video recorder maker TiVo said Thursday that it plans to introduce a parental-control package.KidZone, as the new product is called, will allow parents to control what their children watch through menus that are stocked with programming deemed appropriate for…
Nexstar Broadcasting Group said Thursday that it swung to a fourth-quarter loss of $6.1 million, compared with a year-earlier profit of $700,000, as the company felt the pinch of a sharp decline in political advertising revenue.The decline in political ads…