A top executive of NBC, which has been struggling with diminishing ratings, said viewers are being undercounted as television viewing increasingly shifts to DVR playback, the New York Post reports. Ted Harbert, chairman of NBC Broadcasting, urged the television industry…
ABC, which is presenting its 2012-13 lineup today at its upfront in New York, is bringing back six freshman series for fall — more than any other broadcast net, USA Today reports. Returning are “Once Upon a Time,” “Revenge,” Suburgatory,”…
CNN is trying to lure a key on-air personality from ABC News, reports FishbowlDC. CNN Worldwide Executive VP and Managing Editor Mark Whitaker and CNN Senior VP Amy Entelis have been trying to woo ABC News senior White House correspondent…
As the upfront presentations roll out this week, along with networks’ 2012-13 television schedules, it’s becoming clear that broadcasters are turning to a familiar strategy in an effort to improve their ratings, reports The New York Times. The strategy is…
NBC and its affiliates continue to move toward a deal that will enable the network to negotiate retransmission deals on behalf of affiliates, B&C reports, and both sides reported progress this week — if only a little. The story reports:…
A former News Corp. executive will be charged with perverting the course of justice, becoming the first person to be charged in the company’s phone-hacking scandal, reports the U.K. paper The Guardian. Rebekah Brooks is the former head of News…
A long-running prime-time reality show aired its season finale Sunday night and wound up with the lowest ratings for a finale in the show’s history, according to Nielsen overnights. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that CBS’s “Survivor” averaged a 2.8 rating in the…
Despite "dismal" ratings, the Brian Williams-anchored newsmagazine "Rock Center" will remain on NBC’s schedule, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker. "Rock Center" averaged fewer than 4 million viewers this season, less than half the turnout for NBC’s legal drama…
NBC’s cancellation of a series appears to have had an unexpected ripple effect, causing the stock price of an Internet company to fall, Deadline.com reports. Stock prices for Ancestry.com suffered a 12% dip in pre-market trading this morning, following word…
A new device that automatically skips commercials in recorded prime-time programming from the big four broadcast networks came under fire from NBC Broadcasting Chairman Ted Harbert, the Los Angeles Times reports. "I think this is an attack on our eco-system,"…