President Bush said Thursday he supports the concept of indecency standards for cable TV and satellite. In remarks before the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention in Washington, the president also said parents share a responsibility over the kind of…
Public TV stations and cable multiple system owners reaching more than 80 percent of cable homes have ratified a deal that will ensure carriage of public broadcasting’s digital TV signals on systems serving “the vast majority of the nation’s cable…
Angry about the undisclosed use by TV outlets of Bush administration video news releases, Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., vowed Thursday to promote legislation that would require broadcasters and cable operators that use government-sponsored VNRs to continuously…
The Federal Communications Commission late Wednesday unanimously agreed to give Tribune Co. a temporary waiver to keep its Waterbury, Conn., station WTXX-TV at least until April 2007. A federal judge recently ordered Tribune to sell the station because its ownership…
The E. W. Scripps Co. on Thursday reported a slight decline in first-quarter profit, though revenue surged largely due to the strength of the company’s cable networks.The Cincinnati-based company reported a profit of $70 million, compared with a year-earlier figure…
The New York Times Co., the newspaper company that owns eight network-affiliated television stations, on Thursday said its television stations reported flat revenue growth for the first quarter, as a drop in political advertising was offset by gains in other…
Neither Carole Black nor Betty Cohen were at Lifetime’s upfront presentation Thursday morning, but a standing-room-only crowd got a look at a full slate of new original programming, including the network’s first miniseries and limited series.Lifetime Television Network Executive VP…
Emmis Communications, a broadcasting company that owns 16 television stations, reported Thursday that it fell deeper into the red in the fourth quarter, due to a $303 million accounting charge.The Indianapolis-based company recorded a net loss of $266 million, compared…
Sci Fi Channel has made a deal with Michael Douglas to produce a new series based on the stories of Shirley Jackson, author of “The Haunting of Hill House.” The deal was announced at an upfront briefing by the network…
Spike TV is teaming up with Major League Baseball for a weekly half-hour series, “Maximum MLB.” Each episode will focus on three games from the previous week, aided by exclusive interviews and amusing game clips from players who have been…