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Fox News Dominates GOP Convention Ratings, Beats Broadcast Nets and Trounces Cable Rivals

For the two nights of coverage of the Republican National Convention so far, Fox News Channel has been burying the competition in the ratings, Deadline.com reports. The cable news channel averaged 7.70 million total viewers Wednesday night in the 10…

Shakeup at Ratings-Challenged Nickelodeon: Top Exec Behind ‘Dora the Explorer’ Franchise Gets the Boot

Nickelodeon, struggling to find its footing amid a persistent ratings slump, has shaken things up in the executive ranks, pushing out Brown Johnson, the network’s animation chief and the executive most responsible for the channel’s hit cartoon "Dora the Explorer,"…

Charlie Sheen Poised for Massive Payday After FX Picks Up ‘Anger Management’ for 90 More Episodes — and Sheen’s Dad Will Get a Little Something Too

FX is picking up the huge back-90 order for “Anger Management,” putting star Charlie Sheen in a position for what could turn out to be an even bigger payday than he had in store had he survived on the CBS…

HBO’s ‘Newsroom’ Wraps Up First Season on a High Note; Numbers Are In for ‘True Blood’ Finale Too

HBO’s "The Newsroom" delivered a series ratings high for the show’s Sunday finale, reports B&C. The season finale drew 2.3 million viewers, the story reports. That compares with the 2.1 million viewers who tuned in for the show’s June 24…

Housecleaning Continues at Nickelodeon: Cable Channel Cancels Another Show

Nickelodeon has pulled the plug on another series, on the heels of the cable network’s decision two weeks ago to cancel “Victorious,” as previously reported. The latest series to fall is “How to Rock,” which will go away after just…

Losing Viewers, Viacom Cable Nets Shoehorn More Commercials Into Programming

With some of Viacom’s cable channels shedding viewers during the past year, the media conglomerate is turning to another method of maintaining advertising sales: shoehorning more commercials into its shows, reports The Wall Street Journal. (Please note that The WSJ…

Cable Channel Has Its Highest-Rated Series Premiere in History

A cable channel is touting Sunday’s premiere of a new drama series as the highest-rated series premiere in the channel’s history. The channel is BBC America, which rolled out the new period cop drama “Copper” to record numbers. “Copper,” from…

Fox Promotes Former NBC Exec Kevin Reilly

Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly, formerly a top exec at NBC, has been promoted to Chairman of Entertainment for the Fox Broadcasting Co., reports Deadline.com. The move puts Reilly in the job formerly held by Peter Rice, who was recently…

ABC’s ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Moving to 11:35 p.m., Swapping Places With ‘Nightline’

ABC is shuffling its late-night lineup, moving “Jimmy Kimmel Live” from its current midnight slot to a position where it will go head-to-head with late-night talk fixtures “Late Show with David Letterman” on CBS and “Tonight Show with Jay Leno”…

Report: Jay Leno Takes ‘Tremendous’ Pay Cut; 20 or More ‘Tonight Show’ Staffers Cut

"Tonight Show" host Jay Leno took a "tremendous" pay cut to help save the jobs of employees at his show, but NBCUniversal still cut about 20 to 25 employees at the program, reports Deadline.com. Producers on the show reportedly were…