CBS easily won the Sunday night ratings, getting a strong performance from the “Academy of Country Music Awards,” TVbytheNumbers.com reported. CBS averaged a 2.9 rating for the night in the 18-49 demo, topping ABC (2.2 average), NBC (2.1) and Fox…
Women in Cable Telecommunications has announced that applications for the Betsy Magness Leadership Institute’s Classes XXIV and XXV are being accepted through May 13, 2011. The institute is named in honor of Betsy Magness, who helped build TCI into a…
Saturday’s CBS coverage of the two semifinal games in the “March Madness” NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament attracted about the same viewership as last year’s games, TV Guide reported. The two games averaged 15.4 million total viewers. Mike Aresco, CBS Sports…
Charlie Sheen’s “Violent Torpedo of Truth” tour got off to a disastrous start Saturday night in Detroit, where the former “Two and a Half Men” star was heckled and loudly booed virtually from start to finish, according to The Detroit…
Less than five years after she became the first sole woman to anchor a network evening newscast, Katie Couric is leaving her job at "CBS Evening News," reports the Associated Press. Couric is expected to debut a syndicated talk show…
Another public television station in a top 20 market is leaving the PBS fold, reports Elizabeth Jensen in The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. The station is WMFE-TV in Orlando, Fla., which is being purshased by an undisclosed buyer….
A new over-the-air television channel is in the works from a group headed by former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and Martin Luther King III, B&C reports. Bounce TV, based in Atlanta, is aimed at African-American viewers, primarily in the 25-54…
After the unscripted show "Mobbed" performed well in its Thursday debut, Fox is ordering eight more episodes of the show hosted and executive produced by Howie Mandel, reports B&C. The debut episode earned a 3.8 rating among viewers 18 to…
TiVo is reporting that an "unauthorized person" gained access to email addresses and the first names of its customers after a security breach into a database, according to Multichannel News. TiVo said the security breach happened at a third-party marketing…
Citing the successful takeover of NBCUniversal, Comcast announced that it boosted Chief Executive Brian Roberts’ 2010 pay, reports Bloomberg. The company increased Roberts’ compensation by 14% to $31.1 million, according to the story. Roberts and other Comcast executives "successfully managed…