CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves has been offered a four-year production deal, Deadline.com reports. The deal with CBS would be available to Moonves if he decides to step down as CEO when his contract expires in 2015, the story reports….
A show that has been struggling this season on ABC may get a new life on cable, Deadline.com reports. The bubble show "Cougar Town" is in talks to move to TBS, with negotiations focused on a possible two-season pickup of…
CBS has sent off a warning letter to ABC over plans for a new reality show, warning execs at ABC that they “will be acting at their own peril if they continue to proceed" with a show that is too…
Discovery Communications may have lost as much as $330 million from the inception of Oprah Winfrey’s OWN cable channel in 2008 through Dec. 31, 2011, reports Bloomberg Businessweek. Although OWN is expected to make money in 2013, the costs are…
Dish Network is telling customers it plans to drop AMC and several other cable networks amid a growing fight with AMC Networks, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder. Dish said Friday that it has opted not to renew its…
The upfront advertising market is likely to be a "summer slog," writes Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. "Buyers are betting that economic factors crimping marketing budgets will force sellers to keep TV price hikes to a minimum. Dig below the…
Comcast’s NBCUniversal unit has exercised an option to sell a "substantial portion of its stake in A&E Television Networks, reports The Wall Street Journal. (Please note that The WSJ is a subscription site and not all readers may be able…
The veteran CBS newsmagazine "60 Minutes" is proving aging isn’t inevitable on television, with its current season drawing more viewers 25 to 54 even as its total viewer rating remains the same, reports The New York Times. “It’s hard in…
LIN Television announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to buy a TV station group for $330.4 million, Deadline.com reports. The group, owned by New Vision Television, has 13 network affiliates — including 10 affiliates of big 4 broadcast…
NBC’s troubled first-year fantasy crime drama “Awake” continues to lower the bar in the prime-time ratings. The series set a new low Thursday night in the key demo, TVbytheNumbers.com reports, sinking from last week’s already problematic 0.8 average rating to…