Andrew Heyward is leaving CBS News after almost a decade as its president and a quarter-century in its ranks, and CBS Sports President Sean McManus will assume the additional title of CBS News president, effective Nov. 7. The announcement came…
CBS won the week ended Oct. 23 in both the adults 18 to 49 demographic and in total viewers, but ABC scored three of the top five shows in both categories.In the 18 to 49 demo, ABC’s Sunday night drama…
CNN is lopping an hour off “American Morning” in mid-October to lighten the load on co-anchors Soledad O’Brien and Miles O’Brien.“I just don’t want to burn the guys out. The O’Briens are only human,” CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein told TelevisionWeek…
Part one of Lifetime’s first miniseries, “Human Trafficking,” was the most-watched original cable movie of the year, the network announced Tuesday. The program averaged 5.1 million viewers during its Monday debut, winning its time period against all of ad-supported cable….
Warner Bros. Entertainment has created a new division, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, and has appointed Kevin Tsujihara as its president.Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group encompasses distribution operations via home video, online, wireless, games and emerging technologies, and includes responsibility…
If the telephone industry helps broadcasters win federal legislation requiring cable TV operators to carry all programming streams multicast on digital TV channels, broadcasters will help phone companies get a law clearing them of the obligation to obtain local cable…
YES Network said Monday it plans to launch a new sports film package called “Yogi at the Movies,” featuring Yankee great Yogi Berra. Films in the weekly series include “The Natural,” “Bad News Bears,” “The Babe” and “A League of…
The family controlling Cablevision Systems withdrew its proposal to take the cable company private late Monday, instead recommending the cable operator pay a special dividend valued at $3 billion.According to a statement released by the company Tuesday, Cablevision officials received…
A Fox News Channel contingent of about 10 people staying at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad were reported safe after three large vehicle bombs exploded Monday near the hotel, at which many Western journalists stay. According to the Associated Press,…
A panel formed when the Local People Meter controversy was beginning to boil over in 2004 released a report Monday recommending structural changes in the research industry watchdog Media Rating Council that it says would improve minority audience measurement.The Independent…