Al Gore has been hit with a lawsuit seeking more than $5 million over the sale of his Current TV to Al Jazeera, which was brokered for $500 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Hollywood, Esq. The lawsuit claims Gore…
Fox Business is going for the jugular against CNBC, airing ads that mock its bigger rival’s swing into reality programming, reports Advertising Age. The ads are airing on Fox News and Fox Business — as well as on CNBC, the…
Amazon.com is working with one of the top suppliers of children’s programming on a new project aimed at kids. The New York Times’ Media Decoder reports that the online firm is partnering with WGBH-TV, one of the biggest providers of…
Tuesday was another night of landmark ratings for the broadcast networks — and not in a good way. A number of shows sank to all-time lows in the key 18-49 demo, based on Nielsen overnights. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that NBC’s “Smash”…
A number of the most successful programming chiefs in basic and pay cable recently met to talk about issues including the rapidly changing business landscape for cable, the challenges presented by new models such as Netflix and how they approach…
The top five broadcast networks have ordered almost 100 pilot episodes for the start of the 2013-14 television season, up significantly from a year earlier, TV critic Mike Hale writes in The New York Times. And last year, Hale notes,…
As "Today" struggles with losing its morning dominance to ABC’s "Good Morning America," NBCUniversal has tapped a new executive to take over ad sales for the NBC show, reports Jon Lafayette at B&C. David Barrington, a vice president at NBC…
Jon Stewart is taking an extended break from Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” and if you haven’t already heard the reason, it will probably surprise you: Stewart is taking the summer off to direct a movie, according to The Hollywood…
"The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed today at 14,253.77, topping the previous record high in 2007 — and other benchmarks aren’t far behind," writes our friend David Lieberman at Deadline.com. The story continues: "The widespread momentum contributed to the continuing…
Earlier today we ran a story from the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper about the local NBC affiliate there, WKYC-TV, pre-empting part of NBC’s Thrusday prime-time lineup recently to run a 21-year-old episode of "Matlock," starring Andy Griffith. Brooke Spectorsky, the president…