ABC‘s Thursday 8 p.m. slot has claimed another drama victim. The network is pulling new series Zero Hour after three low-rated airings. For the next two weeks, encores of Shark Tank will air in the hour.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Walters says she’s returning to “The View” on Monday. She’s been sidelined for several weeks. But now she’s “had enough rest and it’s time to […]
it was the most-watched Oscars telecast in three years. Last year’s show, when The Artist won best picture, had an audience of 39.3 million people. After bringing in Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane as host this year, ABC saw an 11% ratings boost over 2012 among viewers ages 18 to 49 years old.
The Academy Awards will be breaking new Web ground this year. For the first time, ABC and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will make the full Oscar telecast available for streaming in the U.S. on Monday across multiple platforms.
Although 30 seconds of commercial time on this year’s Oscars broadcast sold for $1.65 million to $1.8 million, demand was the strongest “in over a decade,” according to ABC.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Miss America, Atlantic City’s prodigal pageant, is coming home, and the spectacle that became synonymous with the New Jersey seaside resort is being assured all […]
Happy Endings Moves to Fridays while Celebrity Wife Swap will take over Tuesdays at 8 p.m., with The Taste pushed back to 9 p.m.
The new English-language news and lifestyle network for U.S. Hispanics launches in the second half of 2013. Five cable operators are already onboard.
Targeting consumers at the pump, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The View and more ABC content will now screen on Outcast Media displays.
ABC Sells Out Academy Awards Telecast
ABC has sold all of its commercial time for this month’s Academy Awards telecast. Walt Disney Co. CFO Jay Rasulo announced the milestone Tuesday during a conference call with Wall Street analysts. ABC’s ad sales team established the quickest pace for the Oscars ad sales in more than a decade.
NBC, CBS and ABC were to hold settlement talks with Dish Network regarding their litigation over the Hopper DVR. But the networks wanted to cancel and a meeting was postponed until a ruling on a preliminary injunction.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — ABC says Barbara Walters is out of the hospital and recovering from chicken pox at home. ABC said Tuesday that the 83-year-old host on “The View” […]
Eight episodes of the low-rated sophomore comedy will remain unaired, while its lead-in, Happy Endings, will air the rest of its order ahead of Dancing With the Stars taking its slot in March.
ABC’s attempt to double-up on originals of Happy Endings and Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23, before the Tuesday sitcoms make an early exit from the schedule in March, has been cut short.
The debate over violence on TV is heating up, with the Parents Television Council attacking ABC for a “graphic and disturbing” torture scene on the political drama Scandal.
The annual Academy Award telecast is a financial juggernaut for ABC, which has worked behind the scenes to ensure that the program has commercial appeal that goes well beyond the art-house crowd. Advertising sales for the 85th Annual Academy Awards already have been robust with the Walt Disney Co.-owned network garnering substantial rate increases over last year.
