After Fox said in May it would give its network affiliation to another station in the No. 113 market, the former Fox station says it now plans to become independent, reports B&C. The station is KTRV-TV in Boise, Idaho, which…
McGraw-Hill has announced that it wants to divest its broadcasting group and has retained Morgan Stanley to make that happen, B&C reported. The company said in a statement that its four stations "are in desirable markets and should be attractive…
Speaking today at Cable Show 2011 in Chicago, Time Warner Chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes proposed a simple solution to current content and distribution issues: Make all content available on all devices, all the time, Multichannel News reported. Bewkes has…
The former president of television for Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Peter Traugott, got an offer he couldn’t refuse and has jumped to Universal Media Studios, reports TheWrap.com. Traugott said in a statement that the lure of working with NBC Entertainment Chairman…
ABC’s reality lineup–two hours of “The Bachelorette” and an hour of “Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition’–was strong enough to beat NBC’s Stanley Cup Finals, Game 6, on a night when the other networks aired mostly repeat programming, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. ABC…
This is a busy week for one cable channel, which announced it is picking up four new series and renewing two others, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The channel is Nat Geo Wild, where one of the new shows will…
Comcast Corp. and Skype have announced a strategic partnership between the two companies to create an HD video calling service that will work through customers’ television sets using a broadband connection. Customers “will soon be able to make and receive…
Former “Two and a Half Men” star Charlie Sheen reportedly has a new sitcom in the works for broadcast TV, with a fast-track target date of January 2012, TMZ.com reports. Sheen’s representatives are in negotiations and could have a deal…
Actress and talk show host Ricki Lake has been sued for allegedly starting a house fire that destroyed the Malibu home she was renting, ABC News reports. The owner of the house, Hovsep Kousayan, filed suit in connection with the…
A recent survey of Netflix streaming video customers revealed a change that providers of cable, satellite and telco TV services are likely to find troubling: The rate of pay-television cord-cutting is accelerating, reports TheWrap.com. Almost one-third of Netflix streaming customers…