LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bill Maher strides into the weekly writers meeting for his HBO show and puts his feet up on the table. His team of scribes, many of […]
Charter To Offer Dodgers Network To Subs
Charter Communications intends to make SportsNet LA, the regional sports network that offers Los Angeles Dodgers baseball games, to its subscribers in a few weeks’ time, potentially ending a year-long showdown that has left nearly 70% of Los Angeles-vicinity TV subscribers without access to the team.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Food Network star Sandra Lee is recovering at home after being discharged from the hospital following a double mastectomy. Lee posted photos to her Facebook page […]
Exclusives
Cable programmers have one more thing to worry about: the rise of a new crop of live-broadcasting stars on apps like Periscope and Meerkat.
NEW YORK (AP) — The Family Research Council has accepted the resignation of Josh Duggar in the wake of the reality TV star’s apology for unspecified bad behavior as a […]
Cable companies such as Comcast Corp. would be free to raise customer rates without local government approval under an FCC proposal, people familiar with the matter say. Cities, states and other localities would lose regulatory authority over basic programming packages under the plan from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, said two agency officials who requested anonymity because the proposal hasn’t been made public. Broadcasters say the change may leave cable providers free to exile TV stations from the basic cable package.
Luxembourg-based cable and mobile phone operator Altice says it will purchase 70% of Missouri-based Suddenlink with a combined debt and cash offer from existing owners BC Partners and CPP Investment Board, and company management.
WRC’s Dianna Russini Leaving For ESPN
The critically beloved AMC drama, never a juggernaut in the ratings, set personal bests in its key measure on Sunday night. The hour-and-change premiere telecast averaged 3.3 million viewers. Of that haul, 1.7 million were in the show’s targeted adults 25-54 demo, a best, and 1.4 million were adults 18-49. All three stats were highs for a finale.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Food Network television star Sandra Lee is undergoing surgery for breast cancer. Lee wrote in a Facebook message posted Monday night that her procedure was scheduled […]
This incomparable drama set in the 1960s New York advertising world concluded its seven-season run Sunday night on AMC with a resolution that rang true to its spirit and likely left its devotees satisfied, even as they bade it farewell with regret.
John Walsh ends a nearly 30-year career at ESPN as one of the most influential executives in the company’s history and as a transformative figure in sports journalism.
ABC Family Sets Dates For 5 New Summer Series
Turner To Rebrand TBS, Remake TNT
At the Turner upfront Wednesday morning, Kevin Reilly rolled out a very ambitious plan, including a rebrand of TBS, a makeover for TNT, a goal to double production of original content over the next three years, and a new ad program called the Turner Data Cloud. It’s all a part of a push by Turner, and cable TV generally over the past few years, to compete more closely with broadcast for both ratings and ad dollars.
ESPN To Share Programming With ABC
On Tuesday, ESPN introduced plans to expand two of its most valuable franchises, the ESPY Awards and the NFL playoffs, beyond cable to its sister network, ABC, which like ESPN is owned by Disney. ESPN said it will begin simulcasting the ESPY Awards, which air over the summer, on ABC. It will also simulcast one of its NFL wild card playoff games on the broadcast network, which has not had rights to the NFL since 2005.
Telemundo Readies ‘Top Chef Mexico,’ Sports
Telemundo and NBC Universo are loading up on new shows that are a big departure for Spanish-language television, from scripted drama series to shows with second-screen apps and virtual reality woven into the storytelling. And sports also is a big priority for NBCU’s Spanish-language networks now that it has nabbed the Spanish-language rights to the next three World Cup championships.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Food Network television star Sandra Lee announced Tuesday that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer and will soon undergo a double mastectomy. The popular lifestyle […]
Bank Shines A Light On ‘Light Bundling’
RBC Capital Markets securities analyst David Bank says the growth of smaller, less expensive packages of TV networks could alter the current cable business model. But, he says, both the trend and its impact on traditional programmers are “somewhat overstated.” Programmers, he says, particularly broadcasters, will handily adapt and survive.
HBO Orders Witherspoon-Kidman ‘Big Little Lies’
NEW YORK (AP) — ESPN says that it is parting ways with Bill Simmons, one of its top personalities who created the Grantland website and was instrumental in the network’s […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Money from the auction of the desk and set of “The Colbert Report” will help thousands of school kids in comedian Stephen Colbert’s native South Carolina. […]
Cablevision CEO James Dolan said Wednesday that consolidation of local marketplaces would benefit cable companies. It “would provide a great deal of ingenuity and access to much more resources for customers and lower prices,” he said. “If New York was operated like one market, you would see things like Wi-Fi distributed throughout the entire marketplace,”
