ABC made ratings history with its telecast Sunday of an NBA game, ESPN and ABC Sports reported. The game between the Miami Heat and the Los Angeles Lakers was the networks’s most viewed non-Christmas Day regular-season NBA game in history….
NBC scored a big win in Monday’s prime-time ratings, with “The Voice” and “Smash” both posting solid gains, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. NBC easily won the night in the key 18-49 demo, averaging a 4.9 rating to trounce ABC (2.1 average), Fox…
The Super PACs have finally put to rest fears that they’re not in a spending mood this year. In the runup to today’s Super Tuesday elections, the political funding organizations loosened the purse strings and shelled out more than $6…
Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution announced that it has sold the broadcast television syndication rights for the sitcom “The Middle” in more than 92% of the U.S. Making the announcement today were company President Ken Werner and Executive Vice President/General…
The bloodbath continues for conservative talk host Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, which continues to lose advertisers — and now has lost two radio stations — in the wake of a verbal attack by the host on a law student who…
Two tech milestones have been reached, one by Twitter and one by Apple. On the Twitter side, Lady Gaga is the first person to have more than 20 million followers, The Huffington Post reports. The other milestone involves Apple’s apps. Over this…
The Federal Communications Commission has been asked by a trade group to eliminate the rule that bars companies from owning a TV station and a daily newspaper in the same market, Bloomberg reports. The Newspaper Association of America filed the…
Advertisers have been bailing out on Rush Limbaugh’s long-running radio talk show in response to his harsh criticism of a law student who testified before lawmakers about contraception. AOL today became the eighth advertiser to drop the show, USA Today…
Cable Networks are ready to present their programming to advertisers in the upfront, but there’s at least one problem: All the shows are starting to look the same, Advertising Age reports. The trend has been toward look-alike auction, pawn, bargain-hunting…
NBC’s new series “Awake,” premiering against repeat programming on CBS and ABC, was a case of good news/bad news for the Peacock Network, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. The good news is the show did better than the 1.4 for “The Firm” in…