Network news stalwart “NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams” remained the most watched of the broadcast networks’ flagship newscasts in the third quarter, drawing an average of 8.6 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.The third-quarter ratings performance extended “Nightly’s”…
Owners Threaten Lawsuit If FCC Does Not Relent
Summer has long been a time cable TV programmers try hard to shine. During the third quarter of this year, those efforts paid off with some top-rated dramas, but many of the reality show entries shriveled in the sun. TNT’s…
Discovery Mounts Big Campaign
NBC is shuffling its Wednesday prime-time lineup, flipping the 8 p.m. reality series “Apprentice: Martha Stewart” with the 9 p.m. Pentagon drama “E-Ring.”Starting Oct.5, “E-Ring” will air at 8 p.m., with “Martha” moving to 9 p.m. “Law & Order” will…
Fox has ordered four additional scripts for the Thursday 9 p.m. (ET) one-hour “Reunion.” The Warner Bros. drama, which profiles a year in the life of a group of high school friends each episode, scored a 2.3 in the adults…
David Courtney, TiVo’s chief financial officer and group executive for corporate products and services, said Friday that he was stepping down effective April 15, 2006, to pursue other interests.“In light of the company’s recent accelerated achievement of its profitability target,…
Verizon Communications said Friday that it filed for a state-issued franchise with the Texas Public Utility Commission to begin offering its FiOS video service to 21 communities in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area as part of a strategy to speed…
Two Hollywood talent agencies have filed suit against Paramount Pictures Corp., accusing the production company of misrepresenting how much net profit it made from the long-running television comedy “Frasier.”The Jim Preminger Agency and the Kaplan Stahler Gumer Braun Agency, which…
ABC’s “Lost” and “Invasion” were the two top shows for Wednesday in the adults 18 to 49 demo, giving the network an easy win for the night in the advertiser-friendly demo.At 9 p.m. (ET) “Lost” scored a 9.4 preliminary national…