Gannett and DirecTV reached a last-minute retransmission agreement, allowing DirecTV to continue retransmitting signals from Gannett’s 23 television stations, reports Deadline.com. Gannett had warned viewers that a signal disruption was possible if the two companies couldn’t break an impasse over…
A new milestone has been reached in the age of the digital video recorder. Multichannel News reports that more than half of all pay-television households now include a DVR. The number of pay-TV homes with DVRs jumped to 52% from…
NBC announced a number of scheduling moves as it scrambles to resuscitate its Thursday night lineup, which has been getting battered in the ratings. “NBC‘s experiment with a newsmagazine in the iconic Thursday 10 p.m. time slot is over,” Nellie…
Two NBC series hit all-time lows as the network sank to a distant fifth place among the broadcast networks for prime time overall Thursday night, based on Nielsen overnight figures. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that “The Office” and “Parks & Recreation” both…
TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross has some very specific ideas, that might surprise you, about how to fix CNN, which you can read if you click here.
VH1 has made the decision to pull the plug on one of its series, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The cable network won’t be bringing back “Mob Wives Chicago,” a spinoff of its New York-based series “Mob Wives,” for a second…
CBS is breaking out of the mold of its trademark police procedurals with a new drama series from Steven Spielberg and Stephen King, Deadline.com reports. The network gave a straight-to-series order for 13 episodes of “Under the Dome,” based on…
Mega-producer Harvey Weinstein talks about his hassle with NFL Network over his new movie “Silver Linings Playbook” — among other hot topics — in a new interview video posted by Reuters TV. Deadline.com reports that NFL Network canceled a scheduled…
The big four broadcast networks finished in a tight four-network pack in the prime-time ratings race Wednesday night, based on Nielsen overnights. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that Fox and ABC both finished with 2.8 average ratings for prime time in the key…
The CW has canceled the series that reportedly had the lowest-rated premiere of the fall season, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. The show is the freshman medical drama "Emily Owens, M.D.," which stars Meryl Streep’s daughter Mamie Gummer…