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Recent media reports suggesting television reality series are losing popularity are overblown, a panel of reality programming panelists said at TelevisionWeek and AOLTelevision’s latest Power Breakfast Series.At the Oct. 25 “Reality Television: How Far Can You Push the Envelope?” panel…
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said Wednesday that the agency plans to consider new regulations in November that could make it easier for telephone companies to roll out video services. “I believe that new video entrants, regardless of the…
The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved legislation late Wednesday that would set the deadline for the digital TV transition at Dec. 31, 2008, and provide up to $990 million to subsidize digital-to-analog converter boxes for analog-only sets.Committee Democrats had…
The Federal Communications Commission late Tuesday asked the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to throw out a request by The Walt Disney Co. seeking a stay of the agency’s new children’s TV rules or an order forcing the agency…
The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 28-21 along party lines Wednesday to reject a package of legislative amendments by committee Democrats that would have provided whatever it cost — estimated by Democrats to be up to $4 billion —…
Internet company Google and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation have formed a joint effort to make the foundation’s Archive of American Television interviews available for free viewing on Google Video. This collection includes interviews with notable television…
Warner Bros.’ “The Tyra Banks Show” was the only nationally rated debuting strip to see gains for the week ended Oct. 16, while Twentieth Television’s “Judge Alex” and NBC Universal’s “Martha” were both even.“Tyra” scored a 1.8 national household rating,…
Andrew Heyward is leaving CBS News after almost a decade as its president and a quarter-century in its ranks, and CBS Sports President Sean McManus will assume the additional title of CBS News president, effective Nov. 7. The announcement came…
CBS won the week ended Oct. 23 in both the adults 18 to 49 demographic and in total viewers, but ABC scored three of the top five shows in both categories.In the 18 to 49 demo, ABC’s Sunday night drama…
CNN is lopping an hour off “American Morning” in mid-October to lighten the load on co-anchors Soledad O’Brien and Miles O’Brien.“I just don’t want to burn the guys out. The O’Briens are only human,” CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein told TelevisionWeek…