Time Warner is reportedly putting together a list of potential executives to take over CNN Worldwide with the goal of ending the network’s ratings plunge, according to the New York Post. Because of the ratings slide, Time Warner executives are…
The two men who have co-hosted one of NPR’s mainstay programs for the past 25 years announced today that they’re leaving the show. NPR confirmed in a press release that Tom and Ray Magliozzi — aka Click and Clack, the…
The former chairman of ABC Entertainment said the television industry’s adherence to business models that will soon be out of date is "madness," reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. Lloyd Braun, who now is a partner in the…
With less than two weeks until a new ABC reality show debuts, CBS has asked a court to block the premiere, reports EW.com’s Inside TV. An outside attorney for the network filed a temporary restraining order in U.S. District Court…
Some advertising buyers are pushing back against cable demands, as the cable networks start selling their upfront inventory, Brian Steinberg and Jeanine Poggi report in Advertising Age. Time Warner’s Turner and NBCUniversal’s cable networks have started making deals for commercial…
The ABC drama "Body of Proof" has dropped more actors as the show deals with a reduced budget, Deadline.com reports. As previously reported, the series dropped John Carroll Lynch, who played Det. Bud Morris. The actor is moving to a…
The CW broadcast network has completed its upfront sales, and in a sign that the TV ad market may not be as robust as it was a year ago, the network was able to secure CPM increases in the 6.5%-to-7.5%…
Wednesday’s prime-time ratings were effectively uncontested, with ABC and NBC in all-reruns and CBS rolling out just one fresh program — the low-rated “Dogs in the City.” That left Fox to take it home with a two-hour “So You Think…
A former Showtime executive has been hired by NBC for the newly created role of executive vice president of digital media, reports Deadline.com. Robert Hayes, who was senior vice president and general manager of digital media at Showtime, replaces longtime…
The media landscape has changed dramatically, with television now driving profits at media conglomerates, a far cry from the past, reports TheWrap.com. An analysis of the 2011 annual reports of five top media companies shows that TV divisions created a…