Six years into its run Nickelodeon’s animated daytime ratings behemoth “SpongeBob SquarePants” continues to set new ratings records. Last Friday’s Veterans Day half-hour special “Where’s Gary?” was the highest-rated “SpongeBob” ever among kids 6 to 11 (3.4 million viewers) and…
Food Network’s “Paula’s Southern Thanksgiving” on Nov. 10 whipped up the network’s highest ratings ever, drawing a 1.6 household rating, representing 1.45 million households. During it’s time period, the program was the No. 1-rated show among women 25 to 54….
U.S. Digital Television introduced its over-the-air subscription TV service Monday in the Dallas/Fort Worth television market, marking the company’s first commercial launch.U.S. Digital has been running trials of its service in three test markets-Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and Albuquerque,…
Univision Communications announced Monday that it has named Michael Wortsman as president of the Spanish-language broadcaster’s television group.Mr. Wortsman had been co-president of the television group with Tom Arnost, but Mr. Arnost resigned last week, leaving Mr. Wortsman to assume…
Broadcast Networks Push the Envelope to See How Far Consumers Will Go
Net Borrows Page From VH1 Playbook
Broadband Platform Complicates Deal-Making
Copps Nominated for 5-Year Term
It’s pop test time, dear readers. Shut your books, get out a piece of lined paper and a pencil and we’ll check your recall of last week’s most pressing morning-news questions. That is, except for the big question of whether…
America Online is using old television shows to get back into the game with two high-tech rivals, Yahoo and Google-and those rivals are paying close attention.With its revenues from dial-up subscribers hemorrhaging, AOL has opened its content to the free…