“Today” show mainstay Matt Lauer may be forced to take a cut in his hefty salary as the NBC morning show suffers through a ratings slump, the New York Daily News reports. A rep for the show denied the rumor,…
TV stations stand to make a lot of money on the presidential election if they happen to be located in certain areas, NPR reports. The story cites as an example Colorado Springs, Colo., where four years ago — when the…
NBC is making a big move in the executive ranks of its advertising sales operation, giving veteran ad sales exec Linda Yaccarino oversight of all ad sales for NBCUniversal, reports our good friend Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. The move puts Yaccarino in…
About three months after NBC’s morning program "Today" pushed out co-host Ann Curry — a move that was apparently designed to recharge ratings for the show — the program is dropping even further in the ratings, reports the New York…
NBC’s "The Voice" has two music superstars lined up to replace Cee Lo Green and Christina Aguilera on this season’s second edition of the music reality show. Joining the lineup will be Usher and Shakira. Both Green and Aguilera are "expected to…
Cable networks booked almost $9.8 billion in upfront sales this year, surpassing the broadcast upfront, reports Jon Lafayette in B&C. The growth rate for the 2012-13 upfront was 5%, lower than the double-digit gains recorded during the two previous years,…
Advertising sales at ABC over the summer were softer than had been predicted, cautioned Walt Disney Chief Financial Officer James A. Rasulo, who spoke at a Wall Street conference Thursday, The New York Times reports. "We did not see the…
In a heated war of words, Dish CEO Joe Clayton is not being intimidated by CBS chief Les Moonves. CBS " ‘would be well advised to tune into the consumer,’ Clayton said at an event introducing an October 2 broadcast…
CBS CEO Leslie Moonves threatened to drop the network from satellite operator Dish Network unless Dish gives up its Auto Hop ad-skipping device, MediaPost reports. “CBS is in litigation along with other networks trying to thwart the device, but even…
Viacom’s cable networks are expected to post advertising declines into the middle of 2013, reports the New York Post, citing a Wall Street analyst. The current quarter will also likely post lower ad sales, with Pivotal Research analyst Brian Wieser…