A special results episode of “American Idol” and the finale of “Skating With Celebrities” gave Fox the top spot among networks in the adults 18 to 49 demographic, with the season’s traditional Thursday-night winner, CBS, coming in second in the…
Former Adelphia Communications chief operating officer Michael Rigas will serve 10 months of home confinement and two years of probation for signing false documents that helped lead to the collapse of the cable company, a federal judge ruled Friday.Mr. Rigas…
NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution’s entertainment newsmagazine “Access Hollywood” is making daily video podcasts available through the iTunes Music Store. The podcasts will consist of “Access Hollywood” moments, extended interviews and more. The “Access” announcement comes the same week CBS…
The new-network affiliate wars heated up with the announcement Thursday that Fox’s MyNetworkTV has signed as affiliates 17 of the 24 Sinclair Broadcast Group owned-or-operated stations that have been affiliated with The WB or UPN, which is merging into The…
Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications reported a sharp slide in fourth-quarter profit compared with a year earlier, as charges related to investments, job cuts and its ongoing fight with Mexican media company Grupo Televisa weighed on results.The Los Angeles-based company, which…
Debar-Mercury is partnering with writer and actor Tyler Perry to develop a half-hour comedy for first-run syndication.Mr. Perry, a well-known playwright and stage actor on the urban theater circuit whose feature films “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” and “Madea’s…
“Good Morning America” co-anchor Charlie Gibson, a 31-year veteran of ABC News, will receive the Paul White Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association at a dinner April 24 during the RTNDA@NAB convention in Las Vegas.“Charles Gibson brings tremendous experience…
NBC’s “Today” show skated to a big ratings win for its final Olympics-driven week in Italy, averaging more than 6.9 million viewers, according to data from Nielsen Media Research. The performance was the NBC’s morning show’s best Olympics week ever…
A study by the watchdog Parents Television Council released Thursday said that entertainment programming for children on major broadcast and cable TV networks includes an average of 7.86 violent incidents per hour-almost twice as much violence as prime-time network programming….
Jean Pool, chairman of the American Association of Advertising Agencies Media Policy Committee, called Thursday for traditional media to fully disclose measurement research, including commercial ratings in addition to program ratings. “Traditional media has had commercial ratings data for years…