Chicago’s NBC owned-and-operated station WMAQ-TV saw a lift from the severe summer storms during the recently completed July sweeps (July 10 through Aug. 6), particularly on weekends in the region this summer. Its Saturday morning news at 9 a.m. checked…
If TNT’s television movie “Door to Door” wins any of the dozen Emmys it’s nominated for, Barbara Walters and HBO could be thanked.The idea for “Door to Door” came to a couple of Hollywood TV producers after they saw a…
A number of leading broadcasters are seeking congressional support for what they say is the only true economic relief for local station owners: a mandatory payment of cash retransmission fees by cable operators.These large-market TV station owners say they already…
WEEK-TV plays in Peoria. The Granite Broadcasting-owned NBC affiliate in East Peoria, Ill., reached the peak of news success 25 years ago and has remained at the summit since then. WEEK has been rated No. 1 in nearly every newscast…
Sony Pictures Television is revamping its lineup for “eBay-TV,” which is being developed for fall 2004. The distributor has reshot the pilot and added veteran television broadcaster Ahmad Rashad as co-host. Mr. Rashad joins the previously announced Molly Pesce to…
What if there were an auction, but nobody bid? That is the question facing Vivendi Universal as it awaits the arrival of a second round of bids due by Aug. 18 for Universal’s U.S. entertainment assets. It is possible there…
Raycom Media-owned NBC affiliate WMC-TV in Memphis signed on in 1948 as the first station in Tennessee, and it has been No. 1 for most of its 55 years. Its 5 p.m. news has claimed victory in every book since…
Fox stole a page from cable’s playbook and was rewarded with a ratings bump for “The O.C.”After airing the first episode three times in one week, Fox ran the second episode of “The O.C.” and saw a 21 percent bump…
After Carson, Calif., factory worker Patricia Frierson won $91 million in the California SuperLotto Plus game, she was asked who she would be supporting in the gubernatorial recall election. She thought for a second and then said Arnold Schwarzenegger, “because…
Vivendi Shares Decline as Bidding Deadline Arrives Shares in Vivendi Universal slipped more than 2.5 percent Monday to close at $17.06 as Wall Street awaited word on who would be entering the second round of bidding for Vivendi Universal Entertainment….