ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox got a step closer today to shutting down Alki David’s online streaming of their shows. Judge George Wu on Thursday granted the networks their mutually desired tentative preliminary injunction against the digital entrepreneur’s Aereokiller service.
While the senior TV and media executives have been mulling over changing industry-standard TV currency to C7 — commercial ratings plus seven days of time shifting programming — one network, ABC, has quietly been making its own C7 deals with TV advertisers over the past 18 months across a number of marketers in multiple categories, according to Debbie Richman, ABC’s SVP of primetime ad sales.
When it comes to primetime non-sports programming so far this season, ABC leads in the 18-49 TV currency that matters most to advertisers — as well as getting top numbers when it comes to upscale viewers.
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The 13-episode paranormal drama series will join scripted soap Mistresses on the network’s summer schedule.
ABC’s Good Morning America has won its first television sweeps month in nearly 20 years, reflecting its newfound status as America’s No. 1 morning show. Nielsen ratings released today showed that GMA averaged 5.31 million viewers in November, 466,000 more than NBC’s Today show.
The Friday comedies, which debuted strong for the night, will have 18-episode seasons on the network.
ABC said today that Fergie and Jenny McCarthy will be hosts of a two-hour tribute to Clark that will air at 8 p.m. ET on New Year’s Eve prior to the annual Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve countdown show that will be hosted by Ryan Seacrest.
Federal judge Lawrence L. Piersol recused himself from hearing the defamation lawsuit filed by South Dakota-based Beef Products Inc. against ABC because his daughter-in-law works as a producer on Good Morning America.
The ABC television network is trying to shut down Dish Network Corp.’s ad-skipping TV recording feature two weeks after a federal judge denied a similar bid by a different broadcaster. ABC said it will seek a preliminary injunction from U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain, according to a filing in Manhattan federal court.
ABC is not going forward with freshman dramas Last Resort and 666 Park Ave., opting not to order more episodes of either show.
It joins The Neighbors and Scandal as having scored the back-nine order this fall at the network.
Throughout its programming Monday, the network urged viewers to contribute to the American Red Cross to help victims of the storm, which affected several Northeastern states. Appeals were aired all day on ABC programming, on Disney’s syndicated shows and across other Disney-owned networks.
ABC said Monday that Barbara Walters donated $250,000 to the American Red Cross and George Stephanopoulos kicked in $50,000 for Superstorm Sandy relief on ABC’s “Day of Giving.”
Following its three-script order earlier this month, ABC’s freshman comedy The Neighbors has received a back 9 order for a full-season 22 episodes run. Also getting a back 9 is sophomore ABC drama Scandal.
ABC is closing its Private Practice. The medical drama will end its run this season when it completes the 13-episode order it received in May as ABC has opted not to give it a back 9 pickup
Steve Kern follows program planning president Jeff Bader, who switched networks in August.
A U.S. District Court judge sides with ABC over The Bachelor discrimination suit on First Amendment grounds.
Today, two prominent media analysts issued reports expressing concern about the new season. So far, few new shows have taken off and ratings have tumbled at ABC, CBS and Fox in the adults 18-49 demographic that advertisers covet. Both CBS and Fox are off by more than 20% while ABC is down 13%.
Viewer defections are the chief reason for television’s changing fortunes in morning news, where ABC’s Good Morning America has ended NBC’s epic 17-year winning streak on Today. ABC is growing — GMA has 110,000 more viewers each day this year than last — but not as much as NBC is slipping (437,000 viewers a day since last year).
Breaking from two decades of tradition, this year’s election exit poll is set to include surveys of voters in 31 states, not all 50 as it has for the past five presidential elections, according to multiple people involved in the planning.
While NBC claimed its first primetime win in almost a decade in broad demos, ABC said it grabbed top results in another important advertising demo: higher-income viewers.
The American Federation of Musicians’ complaint is that its performers haven’t been given a pay raise or healthcare increases in seven years on live-audience network shows. So the AFM is protesting outside The Tonight Show, Dancing With The Stars, Today, Good Morning America, The Late Show With David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel Live.
The AP’s David Bauder questions whether ABC News devoted too much airtime to covering the bone marrow transplant of one of its own, Good Morning America co-host Robin Roberts.
