A cable network that has been getting a lot of mileage out of a reality franchise has been cited as the most effective network for product placement, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. The network is Bravo, which…
Ownership of television sets in the United States has declined for the first time in almost 20 years, reports The New York Times. The reasons behind the decline include poverty, with some low-income households no longer owning TVs, and technological…
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…
Fox has renewed one of its series, reports our good friend Mike Schneider at TVGuide,com. According to Mike, "After another down-to-the-wire negotiation, Fox and 20th Century Fox TV are expected to announce a firm one-year renewal for ‘Bones’ later this…
Sounds like CBS News can’t wait for Katie Couric’s contract to end. In an interview in B&C, CBS News President David Rhodes was asked by B&C’s Andrea Morabito– referring to the on-air personnel who reported the bin Laden story for…
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…
As we previously reported, President Obama showed no mercy to Donald Trump in a presentation during the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, reaping comedy gold from the birther issue and Trump’s executive experience as host of “Celebrity Apprentice.” Here’s the…
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…