Even after striking out last year with an ill-fated attempt to separate two parts of its business, Netflix continues to explore related strategies. One move the online-streaming and video-rental service is considering is a new website design that separates television…
NBC completed its upfront advertising sales for the 2012-13 television season, tallying a total sales figure that is bound to please executives at the ratings-challenged network, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder. NBC sold about $1.8 billion of commercial…
Fox has completed its upfront negotiations, with its $1.98 billion to $1.99 billion in advertising commitments roughly flat with last year, reports Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. The close of Fox sales wraps up the upfront session among broadcasters, concluding…
CBS will get its hearing against ABC’s "Glass House" as the Tiffany Network seeks to torpedo the new show before it gets on the air. The dispute over the show, which CBS thinks is too much like “Big Brother,” will…
CNN announced today that it is pulling the plug on a show that has been a staple of the evening lineup, TVNewser.com reports, citing a story in The New York Times. The cable news channel is canceling "John King USA,"…
The re-election campaign for President Obama has opened up its coffers and is spending heavily on television advertising, Politico.com reports. The Obama campaign spent almost $14 million on a new multi-week wave of TV ads, according to the story. For…
ABC has completed its upfront ad sales period, Advertising Age reports, racking up commitments totaling a little less than the $2.3 billion to $2.4 billion it secured last year. The report notes: “The figures further illustrate the tougher market TV…
20th Century Fox TV has signed a new multiyear agreement with "How I Met Your Mother" executive producer Chuck Tatham, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Tatham will remain with "HIMYM" as an executive producer and will develop other projects for…
"The Justice Department is conducting a wide-ranging antitrust investigation into whether cable companies are acting improperly to quash nascent competition from online video, according to people familiar with the matter," reports The Wall Street Journal. [Note: The WSJ is behind…
The opening game of the NBA Finals, in which the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Miami Heat, generated ABC’s best-ever overnight ratings for a Game 1, the network reports. The broadcast averaged an 11.8 household rating in metered markets, peaking…