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The premiere of Fox’s “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader” broke ratings records Tuesday night, becoming Fox’s highest-rated series premiere in 13 years. Powered by an “American Idol” lead-in, the half-hour game show scored an 11.2 rating among adults…
MTV Networks announced a new structure for its ad sales and affiliate sales divisions. The revised ad structure, as expected, focuses on three clusters, for kids, music and entertainment. Those clusters will work with specialized units called Digital Advertising Sales,…
Mobile video company MobiTV said it doubled its subscriber base in less than one year and now counts more than 2 million customers worldwide.The growth is due in part to new content deals, overseas expansion and the additional $100 million…
TV One plans to air the famed miniseries “Roots” beginning April 8. The 12-hour, award winning epic, which originally aired in 1977 and set ratings records on ABC, will be supplemented by original content produced by TV One. The network…
Joe Uva, head of media buyer OMD and a former senior executive at Turner Broadcasting, was named chief executive of Univision.The largest Spanish-language broadcaster in the United States, Univision is in the process of completing a deal to be acquired…
The chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., offered a new call to revive the Federal Communication Commission’s fairness doctrine, which required broadcasters to offer competing viewpoints in a balanced manner when presenting controversial…
In TVWeek.com’s exclusive Backlot Talk podcast, Manny Coto — co-executive producer and the writer on Fox’s “24” — describes the logistics of how the writers plot each episode without being able to focus on an overall season arc.“On other shows…
NBC is betting on a fifth season of “Las Vegas.”Although the series recently hit a season ratings low, the network has renewed the veteran drama for a fifth season. The show averages a 2.8 rating among adults 18 to 49…
NBC’s new mob drama “The Black Donnellys” got off to a disappointing start Monday night. The show lost nearly half of its “Heroes” lead-in and scored fewer viewers than the premiere of “Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip” in the…
CBS Corp. posted annual and fourth-quarter profit Tuesday, largely driven by its television, publishing and outdoor advertising divisions. The company, which split from Viacom, Inc. at the beginning of 2006, posted a fourth-quarter profit of $335 million (43 cents per…