Executives Tony Petitti and Rob McGlarry talk about the highs (and lows) that came with launching the baseball-focused network.
NEW YORK (AP) — Audio has emerged of Louis C.K. apparently mocking the students-turned-activists from the Parkland, Florida, school shooting. The sound-only recording was posted Sunday in a since-removed YouTube […]
Seth MacFarlane’s Fox sci-fi series builds on its season one finale, but falls well below its series premiere in fall 2017.
KLAS New Year’s Eve Special Airs In 11 Cities
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Reporters will be the guests of honor at the New Year’s Eve party in New York’s Times Square on Monday, in what organizers said was a celebration of press freedom after an unusually deadly year for journalists at U.S. news outlets.
Fade To Black: Remembering Those Who Died
In 2018, TVNewsCheck reported the deaths of outstanding men and women who shaped television as actors, lawmakers, producers, business people, journalists and on-air personalities. Here’s a look back at some of those influencers.
LONDON (AP) — British actress and comedic star June Whitfield, whose long career included memorable roles in TV series “Absolutely Fabulous” and “Terry and June,” has died. She was 93. […]
ESPN says the culprit is lopsided games that weren’t played on New Year’s Day. The best television ratings for the College Football Playoff came in the first year, when Florida State and Oregon played in the Rose Bowl and Alabama and Ohio State played in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1, 2015, and both games were competitive into the second half.
‘I Feel Bad’ Ends Quietly On NBC
NBC’s first-year comedy I Feel Bad finished its season on an even keel Thursday — which is to say it didn’t draw much of an audience. The first of two episodes drew a 0.5 rating among adults 18-49 and 2.5 million viewers, improving a little bit on the show’s last episode (0.4 and 1.86 million on Dec. 13). It was I Feel Bad‘s most-watched episode since its time-period premiere in early October.
WBTS Airing Boston’s New Year’s Eve Celebration
The year in scripted television provided viewers with many memorable moments — and characters. Here are our favorite series characters, spanning several genres and broadcast platforms, who made watching their shows really interesting.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the New York Yankees are in talks with Amazon and Sinclair Broadcast Group about partnering to bid for the team’s regional sports network YES, according to people familiar with the matter. Journal subscribers can read the full story here.
‘The Voice’ Finale Helps NBC To Weekly Win
Nearly 10 million viewers watched Chevel Shepherd win the singing contest, making it last week’s most popular entertainment show. Shepherd, of Farmington, New Mexico, was coached by another talent show discovery: inaugural “American Idol” victor Kelly Clarkson.
Christmas Day has come and gone and the New Year is right around the corner — and so is midseason TV. While fall brought with it the returns of your favorite broadcast shows — and the debuts of several new ones — the colder months mark the time when many of those series go into hibernation and fresh programming wakes up.
Good Week For Talkers And Judges
The top talk and court shows had hot hands in the session ending Dec. 16, with leaders Doctor Phil and Judge Judy both scoring double-digit increases. Phil surged 11% to […]
Kennedy Center Honors Slip To Demo Low
CBS’s annual Kennedy Center Honors broadcast improved a little in viewers vs. last year’s all-time low, but its adults 18-49 rating fell to the special’s smallest ever. The two-hour special — the only original show on the broadcast networks Wednesday — drew 6.58 million viewers, a 7% bump from the 2017 show. Its 0.6 rating among adults 18-49, however, is down a tenth of a point from a year ago and a new low for the honors.
Television, already bursting at the seams with peak programming and lots of filler, finally blew apart this year, fragmenting into a dizzying constellation of nearly 500 new original series and destinations we’ve yet to explore (the forthcoming launch of subscription streaming services from Apple, Warner Media, Disney and, yes, Costco and Walmart), plus a whole lot of space debris that includes “Terrence Howard’s Fright Club,” a Fox Nation cooking show and 98% of the offerings on YouTube TV.
Hosts remained obsessed with President Trump’s Twitter feed and behavior, with the occasional nonpolitical joke feeling like water in the desert.
Twenty-five years ago this month Fox won the rights to broadcast NFL games for $1.6 billion over four years. Besides its personalities, the network has given us the scorebox, audio that brings viewers closer to the game, the one-hour pregame show, and a big production feel for sporting events.
‘Tis the season for cable carriage fights, with Dec. 31 a common expiration date for major deals, and the latest battle is brewing between Disney and Verizon FiOS. The media company has started airing ads aimed at the 4.5 million subscribers to FiOS. The spots carry the message “don’t lose your shows.”
CBS, ABC and the CW are having a rough go of it so far as the first third of the 2018-19 television season draws to a close. NBC is hanging tough on a year-over-year Nielsen basis, and it has landed two new dramas — “Manifest” and “New Amsterdam” — in the top 10 in the adults 18-49 demographic. Fox is showing renewed signs of life thanks largely to the influx of Thursday Night Football viewers.
LONDON (AP) — Sister Wendy Beckett, an art historian and critic who rose to prominence on TV late in life, has died. She was 88. The Carmelite Monastery of Quidenham […]
NBA Posts Strong Christmas Day Numbers
The NBA dunked on its Christmas night competition, posting strong ratings for ABC in primetime. The Los Angeles Lakers’ 127-101 victory over the Golden State Warriors delivered 6.39 million viewers and a 2.1 rating for ABC, pending updates for the live broadcast. That’s a 17% improvement from the preliminary 5.46 million and 1.8 Christmas night in 2017.
