News Corp. said News International CEO Tom Mockridge will leave the company at year-end, reports Deadline.com. The departure isn’t surprising given that Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson is in line to take over the publishing unit when it’s…
Gannett and DirecTV reached a last-minute retransmission agreement, allowing DirecTV to continue retransmitting signals from Gannett’s 23 television stations, reports Deadline.com. Gannett had warned viewers that a signal disruption was possible if the two companies couldn’t break an impasse over…
A new milestone has been reached in the age of the digital video recorder. Multichannel News reports that more than half of all pay-television households now include a DVR. The number of pay-TV homes with DVRs jumped to 52% from…
NBC announced a number of scheduling moves as it scrambles to resuscitate its Thursday night lineup, which has been getting battered in the ratings. “NBC‘s experiment with a newsmagazine in the iconic Thursday 10 p.m. time slot is over,” Nellie…
Two NBC series hit all-time lows as the network sank to a distant fifth place among the broadcast networks for prime time overall Thursday night, based on Nielsen overnight figures. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that “The Office” and “Parks & Recreation” both…
The news team at Tribune station WGN-TV in Chicago was caught this morning by what turned out to be a fake plane crash being staged for a TV show. WGN posted video of its report on the incident, which can…
CBS has set the date for the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards broadcast, with the program set to air from L.A. Live’s Nokia Theatre Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Nominations will be announced July 18. The 2012…
Fox is adapting a popular telenovela for English-speaking audiences, putting in development an hourlong series based on the 2004 show "Rubí,” reports Deadline.com. The project focuses a beautiful but penniless woman who wants to become rich, even if it means…
The abrupt decision to dump Chevy Chase from NBC’s "Community" will not cause disruption in the writers room, reports TVLine.com. It turns out that the show had already filmed a season finale in which the fate of several characters is…
There may be more to Angus T. Jones’ YouTube video meltdown than religious conversion, according to a report by Newsweek’s Daily Beast. The controversial video focused on the young “Two and a Half Men” star — which you can see…