For the third week in a row CBS has taken the top spot in the adults 18 to 49 demographic and total viewers, but ABC walked away with the highest-rated program in both demos. For the week ended April 10,…
Veteran daytime personality Linda Dano is joining CBS’s “Guiding Light,” the longest-running daytime drama on TV. Beginning Friday Ms. Dano will play a murderess who shares a jail cell with Harley Cooper (“Guiding Light” longtime cast member Beth Ehlers).The Emmy-winning…
The live finale of “The Ultimate Fighter” last Saturday on Spike TV drew 2.6 million viewers, making it the second-most-viewed original program in Spike’s history, trailing the last episode of the first season of “Joe Schmo.” The 2½-hour presentation drew…
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has asked MTV Networks Vice Chairman Bill Roedy to lead a committee of media executives in the fight against HIV/AIDS. On Tuesday in Cannes, France, Mr. Annan and media executives laid out plans to increase…
HBO will run “Tracey Ullman: Live & Exposed,” a new autobiographical special from the comedienne, beginning May 14. The special was taped in February before a live audience at the Henry Ford Theatre in Los Angeles. Other HBO run dates…
Spike TV has hired former A&E scheduler John Griffin as VP of programming, the network announced Tuesday. “John was instrumental in the recent resurgence of A&E, and he brings with him a different perspective, a wealth of programming experience and…
Media General, a newspaper and broadcasting company that owns 26 network-affiliated television stations, on Tuesday swung to a first-quarter loss, hurt by a $325.5 million charge related to an accounting change.The Richmond, Va.-based company posted a loss of $316.2 million…
The impact of the lack of political advertising spending on first-quarter earnings began to take shape Tuesday after Gannett Co.’s broadcast group reported revenue and operating cash flow declines.The company’s broadcast group, which includes 21 network-affiliated TV stations and office-building…
The Federal Communications Commission’s crackdown on indecent broadcasting since Janet Jackson’s exposure of her breast during the Super Bowl halftime show last year has won the agency a Muzzle award from the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free…
Don’t Count Us Out, the advocacy coalition formed a year ago to fight the rollout of Nielsen Media Research’s Local People Meter service, marked its first anniversary with the announcement Monday that it is taking out print and online advertising…