Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s speech during Wednesday night’s Republican National Convention bested Democratic speeches from Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and, in some cases, Barack Obama in preliminary ratings. Speaking last night, along with former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani,…
Fox News Channel was back in its familiar driver’s seat at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. Fox easily dominated Tuesday night’s cable and broadcast ratings in the 10 o’clock hour with 6.2 million viewers, according to the…
Digital video recorder maker TiVo and DirecTV will develop a high-definition DVR featuring TiVo service for customers of the No. 1 U.S. satellite service, marking an extension of their business relationship that began eight years ago. TiVo plans to build…
LG Electronics, which doubled its first-half 2008 liquid-crystal display television sales from a year earlier, said this week that it will boost its display sales by 30% to $20 billion by 2010. The gains, which LG aims to achieve by…
HD programming picks for Sept. 4-10: “Redskins vs. Giants,” “Franklin’s Lost Expedition,” “Mrs. Doubtfire” Washington Redskins vs. New York Giants (NBC). Thurs., Sept. 4, 7 p.m. ET. The National Football League’s 2008 regular season opener features the NFC East’s Redskins…
HDTV Recipients to Jump Sevenfold Within Five Years About 280 million worldwide households will receive some form of high-definition television service in 2013, up from about 40 million last year, IMS Research said in a report last week. More than…
How do you get to the center stage of the Republican National Convention to sing the National Anthem for a nationwide audience? First you tag along, from age 5, at Democratic and Republican conventions covered by your network news producer…
Among the many folks doing cartwheels over the strong debut numbers for “90210”: David Stapf, president of CBS Paramount Network Television. Mr. Stapf, along with CW Entertainment President Dawn Ostroff, was one of the driving forces behind the revival of…
Sundance Channel, acquired by Cablevision’s Rainbow Media unit in June, reset senior management and laid off about a dozen employees, or about 10% of the staff. The most senior executive leaving Sundance is Kirk Iwanowski, who was executive VP of…
An estimated 21.5 million people watched the second night of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. on six television networks, according to preliminary local data from Nielsen Media Research. That measurement—which includes ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News…