Craig Kilborn, who has been entertaining his fans with a “Countdown to Obscurity” this week, will bid bye-bye to “The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn” and CBS Aug. 27. Mr. Kilborn’s contract negotiations with CBS and David Letterman’s Worldwide…
Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said Thursday that team owners have approved plans for a baseball channel for cable television. “The Baseball Channel is another in an ongoing series of changes to help grow the sport and make it…
Bob Woodruff and Terry Moran will split “World News Tonight” weekend anchor duties for ABC News. Mr. Woodruff, the correspondent who had been sharing Saturday night duties with Elizabeth Vargas since 2002, now is the primary Saturday anchor. Mr. Moran…
In a new report looking at the upcoming season, media buying agency Carat predicted that about one-third of the networks’ new fall series will be canceled by January. Among those likely to vanish are ABC’s “Rodney” and “life as we…
If two members of the Federal Communications Commission have their say, all 219 of CBS’s affiliates could have to pay a price for Janet Jackson’s breast flash during the network’s Super Bowl coverage in February. That was one of the…
Court TV has recruited Fuse President Marc Juris as general manager in charge of programming and marketing. Mr. Juris brings a maverick attitude to the Court TV management roster. At the upstart Fuse music channel, he used cheeky, sometimes not-so-tasteful…
The early local news bird doesn’t always catch the ratings worm, according to the latest update of Katz Television Group Programming’s early fringe local news expansion index, which first was published in 1996 and examines performance back through 1994. Expansion…
The four major television networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox — are compliant with the Ad-ID initiative, which puts a unique code on each advertising message, the Association of National Advertisers and the American Association of Advertising Agencies said…
NBC’s prime-time Olympics broadcast Tuesday jumped to an 18.3 national Nielsen rating and 30 share, the highest ratings from Athens so far, and up 18 percent from the Sydney games four years ago. Tuesday’s broadcast drew an audience of 71…
A California Superior Court Judge refused Wednesday to grant an emergency injunction preventing Fox from launching its boxing reality show “The Next Great Champ,” but granted producers of the rival boxing show “The Contender” a hearing on the matter Sept….