Sirius Satellite Radio CEO Mel Karmazin said Wednesday he doesn’t expect to compete with DirecTV Group and EchoStar Communications in delivering satellite-based video content to households, preferring instead to focus on opportunities that might exist in automobiles.Mr. Karmazin, who has…
LIN TV Corp. signed a definitive agreement Wednesday to purchase two UPN-affiliated television stations from Viacom for $85 million, as LIN continues to move ahead with its strategy to create duopolies in its markets.Separately, LIN reported that it swung to…
With Super Bowl XXXIX driving its ratings engine, Fox easily won the week ended Feb. 6 in both the adults 18 to 49 demographic and total viewers.Sunday’s Super Bowl, featuring the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles, scored a 33.2…
George Herman, the first CBS News correspondent to file reports from abroad that included audio and video, died Tuesday. The longtime political reporter, who was also the longest-serving moderator of “Face the Nation,” was 85 and lived in Washington. The…
NBC is expected to announce today that Chris Noth will return to the “Law & Order” franchise next season.Mr. Noth will reprise his character, Det. Mike Logan, which he originated on “Law & Order” in 1990, for the franchise spinoff…
Buena Vista Television is renewing its talk strip “The Tony Danza Show” for a second season. The announcement was made Tuesday by Janice Marinelli, president of Buena Vista Television. The live daytime talker has station renewals in 115 markets, representing…
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will stage the first Emmys En Español during its annual trustees dinner June 3 in San Antonio. Six or seven leading Hispanics in the Spanish-language television business in the United States, some…
ABC Family has ordered eight episodes of an original one-hour scripted series called “Beautiful People” (working title). The Sony Pictures Television series follows a single-parent family moving from a small town to New York. The series is slated for a…
CBS and Raycom Media have signed new long-term affiliation agreements covering seven Raycom-owned CBS affiliates: WOIO-TV in Cleveland; WTVR-TV in Richmond, Va.; KOLD-TV in Tucson, Ariz.; KFVS-TV in Cape Girardeau, Mo.; KSLA-TV in Shreveport, La.; WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge, La.;…
The truce between a group of dissident shareholders and The Walt Disney Co. appeared to be fraying Tuesday after two former Disney board members who last year led a revolt against CEO Michael Eisner said they would withhold their votes…