CBS gained an easy ratings victory for the week ending Jan. 23, due to Sunday’s AFC Championship Game (44.3 million viewers) followed by the impressive debut of its new crime drama “Numb3rs.” Though “Numb3rs” lost about half the game’s audience,…
Charter Communications’ former chief financial officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal fraud charge in connection with an accounting scandal uncovered in 2001.Kent Kalkwarf, 45, pleaded guilty in a federal court in St. Louis to a single felony count of…
CNN will add two former CNNfn business programs–Dolans Unscripted,” with hosts Ken and Daria Dolan, and “Open House,” with host Gerri Willis–to its Saturday lineup at 10 a.m. and 9:30 a.m., respectively, starting Feb. 5. “Dolans,” a live hour-long show,…
FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps is calling for rules setting aside a quarter of prime time for programming from independent producers.Speaking Wednesday via satellite from Washington to the NATPE convention in Las Vegas, Mr. Copps said, “It is long past…
New Line Television announced Tuesday that the second season of “The Twilight Zone” has been renewed by Tribune stations in New York (WPIX-TV), Dallas (KDAF-TV) and Houston (KHWB-TV). In addition, the Forest Whitaker-hosted anthology has been cleared in Minneapolis/St. Paul…
Twentieth Television and Verizon Wireless will bring two direct-to-mobile filmed series to Verizon’s cellular phone customers. The Jan. 24 announcement was from Bob Cook, president and chief operating officer of Twentieth Television; Lucy Hood, senior VP of content and marketing…
President Bush on Wednesday said a controversial decision by the Department of Education to give Armstrong Williams $241,000 to promote the No Child Left Behind Act with advertisements and commentaries on TV was a mistake, one the president said he…
Gannett reported Wednesday that its broadcast group, which includes 21 network-affiliated television stations, posted a 19 percent rise in fourth-quarter revenue to $233.4 million, driven largely by robust political advertising spending in the period.For the year, the broadcast unit reported…
Buena Vista’s rookie talk strip “The Tony Danza Show” has received a second season on Post-Newsweek’s NBC affiliate WDIV-TV in Detroit and LIN Television’s CBS affiliate WISH-TV in Indianapolis. The show will remain in its 11 a.m. and 10 a.m….
Officially getting the anti-indecency ball rolling in the new Congress, Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., introduced legislation Tuesday night that would raise the cap on fines for off-color broadcasts from $32,500 to $500,000.The congressman’s bill includes a three-strikes-and-you’re-out provision that would…