USA Network is readying the kind of marketing push normally reserved for first-run shows to support its acquisition of reruns of the popular ABC comedy "Modern Family," reports Jeanine Poggi in Advertising Age. "There’s a lot riding on ‘Modern Family,’…
Al Jazeera America is looking for someone to run the new U.S. cable news operation, and a number of veteran TV news pros happen to be available. As it turns out, Al Jazeera has reached out to a number of…
CBS is in talks to take full ownership of TVGuide.com, after being in a 50/50 partnership with Lionsgate since spending $100 million in March to buy the stake previously owned by One Equity Partners, reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. "I’ve…
The CEO of TV-streaming service Aereo told Bloomberg that threats from networks including CBS and Fox to switch to cable are merely a bluff. Lower advertising revenue and pressure from lawmakers would make it extremely difficult for the networks to…
Scripps Networks Interactive has seen steep audience losses at one network and significant gains at another, perhaps indicating how the audience’s appetite is changing. The steep losses have been at Scripps’ Food Network, reports the New York Post. Food Network…
Al Jazeera America, the cable news network that is being made from Current TV, is opening its first U.S. news bureaus, and the channel’s initial list of sites includes places without many competitors, reports TVNewser. An unofficial list of 12…
The so-called "streamageddon" at Netflix, when the service lost hundreds of titles from its library, turned out to be not such a big deal after all, reports the Los Angeles Times. The "great ‘Netflix purge’ of 2013 was wildly exaggerated,"…
CBS’s sales team will go after the highest possible CPM increases in the upcoming upfront market, CBS Corp. President and CEO Les Moonves told investors Wednesday, Adweek reports. Moonves commented during the company’s first-quarter earnings report. Moonves said CBS has…
With a brutal season for broadcast ratings winding down, analysts are examining the results to try to find meaning — and at least one analysis came up with an interesting trend. TheWrap.com reports that while newer shows have generally failed…
CBS’s entire prime-time lineup sank to series lows Wednesday night in the key 18-49 demo, based on Nielsen overnights. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that “Survivor,” “Criminal Minds” and “CSI” all fell to all-time lows in the demo. “Survivor” kicked off prime time…