It may be the end to the presidential campaign, but Tuesday’s vote kicks off a high-stakes battle over media issues in the next Congress and administration. Broadcasting, advertising and consumer groups say that no matter who wins the presidency, there…
Tuesday may be Election Day, but at the U.S. Supreme Court the focus won’t be on Obama vs. McCain. Rather, it will be on the Federal Communications Commission’s stepped-up indecency enforcement efforts. In a case that could have a dramatic…
“The Bachelor” producer Mike Fleiss is back in business at CBS, landing a seven-episode order for a new competition-based reality show. The untitled project will feature families, all of whom live close to each other, competing for a large cash…
Sen. John McCain’s appearance last night on the final “Saturday Night Live” before the election lifted the series to its second-highest overnight rating since December 1997. Drawing a 9.0 rating/20 share overnight household rating in 56 markets, last night’s “SNL”…
NBC has decided to show some patience with low-rated new comedy “Kath & Kim,” giving the series a full-season order. The network late Friday ordered nine additional episodes of the Universal Media Studios/Reveille-produced half-hour, which stars Molly Shannon and Selma…
Univision’s WXTV 41 is the most-watched TV station in New York by adults 18-49 during the 6-8 p.m. weekday time period, an October audience survey found. WXTV attracted 147,000 viewers ages 18-49 in the time period, with WABC-TV coming in…
The 2008 Breeders’ Cup World Championships, which aired Oct. 24-25 on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2, attracted 19.8 million viewers. The horse-racing championship was up 62% in viewers from last year’s 12.2 million viewers. The event also attracted a 0.7 household…
The federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., today ruled to uphold the FCC’s decision to require cable systems to make the digital signals of local broadcast must-carry stations viewable to all subscribers, including analog subscribers. The decision was made despite…
ABC is giving a vote of confidence to second-year comedy “Samantha Who”? The network has ordered seven additional episodes of the Christina Applegate series, bringing to 20 the total number of episodes it plans to produce. While full-season orders usually…
Video technology company Clearleap has secured $3.3 million in venture debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank. The funds will go toward enhancing development of infrastructure and business management products for television service providers and media content owners. Clearleap, whose platform…