NBC and HBO each earned seven wins at the Sports Emmy Awards on Monday night, making them the most recognized networks, according to The Hollywood Reporter. CBS followed with six awards, while ESPN earned five. HBO’s "Hard Knocks: Training Camp…
The broadcast networks are quickly arranging prime-time news specials for tonight to cover the killing of Osama bin Laden, Entertainment Weekly reports. Initially, both CBS and ABC announced plans to send anchors to Ground Zero in New York for one-hour…
President Obama’s announcement that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a U.S. raid in Pakistan disrupted prime-time broadcasts in varying degrees in different time zones, and ensured that final results won’t be known for a while, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. But…
FEARnet made a number of programming announcements today, adding that it has secured long-term carriage agreements with Time Warner and Verizon Fios and has begun its linear carriage rollout with Comcast. With the new agreements, the network said it will…
[UPDATED 1:15 p.m. PT to rewrite headline and clarify story to reflect that story is based on rumors.] Reports surfaced last week that Sony TV, the production company behind NBC’s "Days of Our Lives" and CBS’s "The Young & the…
The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton wasn’t enough of a draw to rouse most Americans from their beds early Friday morning, reports The New York Times’ ArtsBeat blog. An average of 22.7 million viewers at home in the…
Judy Sheindlin, star of the syndicated court show "Judge Judy," has inked a new deal to remain at the gavel through 2015, reports the AP. Sheindlin’s long-running court series for CBS Television Distribution has grown among all daytime syndicated programming…
While USA Network has become the No. 1 cable channel thanks to lighter dramatic fare such as "Burn Notice" and "Psych," the net is making an effort to expand into sitcoms with its latest acquisition, "The Dicocco Brothers" from Kelsey…
Dish Network announced today that it has appointed a president for its new Blockbuster subsidiary, Multichannel News reported. The company gave the assignment to the executive VP of its Commercial Services division, Michael Kelly. Kelly has also led the Direct…
ABC News made a decision to stick with covering the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed on Sunday night following President Barack Obama’s press conference, while CBS and NBC returned to reality TV programming, reports EW.com’s Inside TV…