Fox News Channel extended its ratings win streak to five months, finishing May as the most-watched cable news network. In May, for total day, Fox averaged 594,000 viewers (up 153 percent year to year), followed by CNN with 480,000 viewers…
Karmazin promises improved network-affiliates relationship CBS affiliates expected Viacom President and chief operating officer Mel Karmazin to again tell them, “We suck less” than the other networks at this year’s CBS affiliates meeting. Instead, a more mellow Mel surprised the…
‘Osbournes’ gets 20-episode renewal MTV has made it official: “The Osbournes,” the hottest show on TV, is returning for a second season of 20 new episodes. The negotiations leading up to the deal were, by several accounts, just as idiosyncratic…
CBS affiliates: it’s thumbs up for news lead-ins this fall At the only large scale network affiliates meeting held this year, Leslie Moonves, CBS president and CEO, unveiled the network’s fall lineup Wednesday and delivered what some affiliates say are…
Brokaw to host ‘Nightly’ until 2004 Tom Brokaw will remain anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News” through the end of November 2004, when Brian Williams will succeed Mr. Brokaw on “Nightly.” In the meantime, Mr. Williams, 43, will…
Red flags are going up on Wall Street in response to a 43 percent decline this year in cable television stock prices, which industry analysts attribute to largely unfounded concerns about rising debt, costly system upgrades and the slow rollout…
Clinton. Ellen. Fergie. Cusack. Now, Stein.Talk show hosting clearly has drawn more than passing interest lately from the celebrity crowd.Call it a “changing of the guard,” but fall 2003 is shaping up as a launching pad for a new generation…
Big 4 broadcast news in the aggregate, excluding the broadcast networks’ various prime-time newsmagazine franchises, accounted for just 40.5 percent of the available TV news household gross rating points in 2001, compared with 59.5 percent for cable news in the…
Either you believe or you don’t. It’s that simple.Take this account, for example.Some years ago Alan and Sandra went to see the psychic James Van Praagh. They were very skeptical of his ability to communicate with the dead, he wrote…
You know those $2 billion deals that OMD is trying to do, one with Viacom and one with Disney? As we reported last week, it’s far more likely that OMD will consummate the deal with Disney than with Viacom.But here’s…