For what it’s worth, NBC got a win Monday night in the Nielsen overnights, even while averaging a modest rating for prime time in the key 18-49 demo, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. NBC’s 1.9 average in 18-49 was easily the best of…
CBS has had enough of a popular television movie series even though it has attracted decent audience numbers, Variety reports. Among the problems: The audiences are too old. The series is the “Jesse Stone” movies, starring Tom Selleck. The most…
Three television stations may go dark as an impasse is looming in retransmission consent talks between Media General and Cox Communications, reports B&C. The affected stations would be WSLS-TV (NBC) in Roanoke, Va.; WJAR-TV (NBC) in Providence, R.I.; and WKRG-TV…
Britney Spears’ $15 million paycheck for "The X Factor" was spurred by the amount of money another famous singer earned for a season as a judge on a singing competition, TMZ.com reports. Jennifer Lopez’s $12 million earnings for her first…
Apple’s Chinese manufacturing partner is said to be in the "trial production stage" of the company’s Apple TV set, reports CNET.com. The development, which was reported by China Business News, should be taken with a grain of salt, the story…
The daytime talk landscape appears to be in good shape after the departure of the syndicated mainstay “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” Variety reports. The programs that took over many of the former “Oprah” afternoon time slots — Sony’s “Dr. Oz”…
ABC quietly rolled out two new series Thursday night — the network may not have intended to do it quietly, but that’s how it turned out, if the Nielsen overnights are an indication. The network’s new singing competition “Duets” had…
The highest-paid chief executive in corporate America has declined a $75 million dividend in equivalent payments on stock that he is due to receive over time, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The executive is Apple CEO Tim Cook. In March,…
NBCUniversal may buy out its partner in MSNBC.com, with the two sides in talks about the purchase, reports Bloomberg. NBC and Microsoft started MSNBC in 1996, creating a 24-hour news channel and a website. NBC bought the cable network in…
J.J. Abrams’ Fox series "Fringe" has sold its off-network syndication rights to a cable channel that may come as a surprise — the Discovery Communications channel Science, B&C reports. The cable channel’s programming traditionally focuses on science — not science…