Lifetime’s "Dance Moms" premiered its third season to a series high in total viewers, reports Deadline.com. The show’s 2.8 million viewers represented a 33% increase from its summer 2012 season premiere, the story notes. After "Dance Moms," Lifetime aired a…
Media stocks performed well during 2012, with most of them beating the upswing in the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 index, Deadline.com reports. The S&P was up 13.4% during the year, the piece notes, but pacing the big media conglomerates…
ABC’s New Year’s Eve broadcast "Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest" pulled its largest audience ever on ABC, and also marked the first year without Dick Clark, reports Deadline.com. Clark, known for hosting “American Bandstand,” died…
Cablevision customers avoided a blackout of Viacom networks on New Year’s Day after the companies reached a new carriage deal following two months of negotiations, reports the New York Post. The companies, which issued a statement late Monday night about…
Tribune Co., which emerged from bankruptcy on Monday with new owners and board of directors, is expected to focus on television but may eventually become a smaller company, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. The new Tribune’s board…
Pumping up the volume on the Super Bowl XLVII halftime show, set to air Feb. 3 on CBS from the New Orleans Superdome, Pepsi announced plans today for a contest that will give 100 fans the opportunity to join Beyonce’s…
Showtime has announced plans for its biggest free preview weekend ever, sending out its programming lineup to more than 80 million U.S. homes during the weekend of Jan. 11-13, 2013, Multichannel News reports. “The network currently attracts 22 million subscribers…
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As incoming CNN chief Jeff Zucker prepares for his new role in turning around the cable news channel, he’s eyeing some ABC talent, including "20/20" co-anchor Chris Cuomo, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. Zucker is searching for an…
The National Football League said that its games accounted for 29 out of the top 30 most-watched TV shows this fall, reports B&C. The only non-sports program on the list was the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, which drew 22.4 million…