HBO Sports and ESPN have announced a multiyear agreement to present and promote boxing programming across multiple platforms. Joining for the joint announcement were ESPN’s Marie Donoghue, senior vice president of global business strategy & development, and Mark Taffet, senior…
With a batch of premieres this week and last week, the daytime TV landscape has new syndicated talk shows popping up like mushrooms — and one of them is already way out in front of the pack, TheWrap.com reports. The…
The debut of Michael Strahan last week as the new co-host with Kelly Ripa on “Live!” gave the syndicated morning talk show a ratings boost. The Los Angeles Times reports that the show had its highest premiere-week ratings in six…
With the new television season set to officially get under way in two weeks, NBC and ABC are developing aggressive strategies for wooing viewers, reports Joe Flint in the Los Angeles Times. In contrast, Fox and CBS are playing things…
A new report from Nielsen shows that U.S. homes that don’t receive television service often still own TV sets, reports David Bauder at the Associated Press. About 5 million homes don’t get TV signals through pay-TV providers or over the…
Viacom’s cable networks are expected to post advertising declines into the middle of 2013, reports the New York Post, citing a Wall Street analyst. The current quarter will also likely post lower ad sales, with Pivotal Research analyst Brian Wieser…
Chuck Lorre is bringing aboard a new boss at Chuck Lorre Productions as the company adjusts to its newly expanded deal with Warner Bros. TV. Joining the company is Bob Broder — the agent who negotiated the Warner Bros. deal…
Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced today that it has agreed to a deal with the CBS Television Network that extends affiation agreements for eight Nexstar-owned stations. The stations are KLBK-TV in Lubbock, Texas; KLST-TV in San Angelo, Texas; KTAB-TV in Abilene-Sweetwater,…
Two words are putting fear into agency and marketing executives, according to Advertising Age. The two words are "media rebates." “The Association of National Advertisers reported in July the eye-opening results of a survey indicating that 28% of respondents are…
A family comedy set in the 1980s from "Breaking In" co-creator Adam F. Goldberg has received a production commitment from ABC, shifting the project from Fox, reports Deadline.com. The project is described as "The Wonder Years" set in a dysfunctional…