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David Leatherby Sr. is a popular guy in Sacramento, maybe more so than Governor Pete Wilson himself. 'I was at the governor's birthday party, getting my picture taken with him,' [...]

CHICAGO IS NBC'S KIND OF TOWN. Just before Halloween, Jennifer Salke, president of NBC Entertainment, hosted a dinner at the renowned steak-house Chicago Cut for the casts and crews of [...]

IT'S TIME TO TAKE THE multicast channel business seriously. After the digital broadcast transition, a bunch of channels lit up on the secondary signals of TV stations. Some showed 'classic' [...]

THIS IS BEING called the golden age of TV programming for scripted shows, in particular. More shows than ever are being produced, viewers are binge watching them hours at a [...]

WHILE 'UNLOCKING THE MYSTERY' is part of the appeal of finally getting a glimpse of Netflix viewing numbers, the actual numbers themselves will prove valuable in many quarters. Those will [...]

DAVE SHULL, president of The Weather Channel, knows how distributors treat independent networks like his. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In his previous job as chief commercial officer at Dish Network, [...]

MORE VIEWERS ARE saying 'yes' to TLC. At a time in the cable-network business when flat is the new up, TLC is up a whopping 16% so far this year. [...]

THE ADVERTISING LANDSCAPE has been disrupted by digital advertising, slowing the growth of all-powerful television and causing marketer dollars to stream to online video options. B&C business editor Jon Lafayette [...]

WITH RATINGS down across the landscape, cable networks are looking for new and different ways to work with their advertising clients as the upfront market approaches. While network sales executives [...]

FREEWHEEL, the technology company that helped enable the growth of premium video on demand, has reached two important milestones. It recently turned 10 years old and it served up its [...]

CONSOLIDATION OF the local TV station market is on again with a vengeance following Nexstar Media Group's agreement to buy Tribune Media for $6.4 billion, a deal that would create [...]

DISCOVERY IS studying consumer behavior and employing artificial intelligence as it creates new customized apps for its numerous networks. One function for some of the new apps will be instant [...]

WALL STREET IS cautiously upbeat about the media industry as companies in the TV business get ready to release their earnings for the third quarter. What had been dark clouds [...]

WITH TELEVISED debates and polling, Telemundo's local stations have stepped up their political coverage and are tapping into the big money being spent on election campaigns. Since becoming part of [...]

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- AT&T, founded by telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell, has unveiled Xandr, a company that seeks to reinvent advertising. At what it called a Relevance Conference here, [...]

LEAVE IT TO A REPORTER to find a good navigation tool. Former CBS News and CNN executive Jon Klein believes the TV business needs artificial intelligence to compete with the [...]

FOX IS KICKING OFF a search for a new president for the Big Ten Network. Mark Silverman has been president of the channel, the first network built around a college [...]

FACING A GENERATION that's cutting the cable cord but is glued to its iPhones, the ABC Owned Television Stations Group is creating a new brand designed to appeal to mobile [...]

AT&T IS gathering some of the top people from the media world to christen its new advertising business and debate the state of TV advertising. The unit, headed by former [...]

THERE ARE BIG CHANGES ahead for one of the Big Four broadcasters. For more than 20 years, CBS Corp. was personified by chairman and CEO Les Moonves, booster of broadcast, [...]

THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TALK in the television business about cutting back on commercials, but so far, there's been little progress. In fact, by some measures, the number of [...]

SUDDENLY, IT'S GETTING EASIER TO picture chairman and CEO Les Moonves leaving CBS, even if it's hard to imagine the company without him. The ebullient Moonves turned CBS, an old-fashioned [...]

AMID ALL THE TALK ABOUT CORD-CUTTING, the majority of television consumers say they plan to keep their pay TV subscriptions, although the number of cord-keepers is slowly shrinking, according to [...]

AS A STRONG UPFRONT WRAPS UP, one of the smallest cable programmers might have gotten the biggest greeting from advertisers. Crown Media, which runs the Hallmark Channels, posted a double-digit [...]

AT A TIME WHEN MUCH of the television business is discussing which type of research currency to use to measure TV viewership for advertisers, interactive TV company iPowow is looking [...]

ROOKIES AREN'T THE ONLY ONES trying out new moves in the NBA Summer League. The NBA is using broadcasts of the games to try out ways to keep viewers tuned [...]

NETFLIX'S HIGH-FLYING STOCK remains a favorite of Wall Street as the streaming leader gets set to release its second-quarter financial results on July 16. Credit Suisse, for one, expects Netflix [...]

THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT has thrown a monkey wrench into the TV business by saying it would appeal the court decision permitting AT&T to acquire Time Warner. In addition to creating [...]

LIKE ITS CABLE NETWORKS MTV and Nickelodeon, Viacom's branded content unit Velocity puts a premium on understanding youth culture. It isn't easy to keep up. Members of Generation Z and [...]

NICOLLE PANGIS, named CEO of NCC Media in March, is bullish on addressable advertising. Pangis had been a programmatic pioneer at media buying giant GroupM, where most recently she was [...]

THE BALL IS now in Comcast's court. Brian Roberts, Comcast's chairman and CEO, must decide if it's a good idea to reach deep into the cable giant's wallet for the [...]

TO GET PRIMETIME ADVERTISERS to focus on its highest-rated programs, Discovery Inc. has put together a new package of premiere episodes of series from eight of its networks. Discovery has [...]

JUST BECAUSE YOU'VE CUT THE CORD doesn't mean you don't want sports. Recognizing that idea, online sports network Stadium is ramping up its over-the-air carriage to provide more viewers with [...]

SCHLAGE, the lock company, found a quick key to making its advertising more effective--switching to programmatic TV. At a time when many networks are trying to persuade major advertisers to [...]

IT'S HARD TO PUT TOO MUCH ANALYSIS into the first-quarter earnings of the TV business when so many of the industry's companies are in the process of being taken over. [...]

IT WAS CLEAR at the NewFronts in New York last week that as TV becomes more mobile and on-demand, the gap between traditional and digital video is shrinking. Viacom officials [...]

PROVING WHAT SHAKESPEARE said about 'all the world's a stage,' a new outfit is creating an over-the-top subscription network dedicated to the theater. Stage plans to launch in two phases. [...]

In a move that could advance advanced advertising, NBCUniversal has agreed to join with 21st Century Fox, Turner and Viacom, the partners in OpenAP, a consortium designed to standardize and [...]

TWO FORMER BOUNCE TV EXECUTIVES have formed a new business that creates family-friendly original content for African-American viewers and promotes diversity and cultural relevance as an effective marketing tool. Ri-Karlo [...]

MORE DATA can mean more ratings for local stations. Sorenson Media, which gathers data from smart TVs, works with about 120 local stations. It can update viewer information on an [...]

AFTER CLUTTERING UP SHOWS with commercials, promos and announcements, programmers seem to be flocking around the radical notion that fewer ads = better ads. For instance, Fox's Sunday shows this [...]

IF YOU WANT TO SELL PICKUP TRUCKS, the first place you think to advertise might not be the TLC series Sister Wives. But these days, with data driving more and [...]

AMC NETWORKS IS expecting the return of its monster hit The Walking Dead to give a lift to its premium subscription service AMC Premiere. AMC Premiere, which costs $4.99 a [...]

EVEN THE OLYMPICS can't slow down the NBA's fast break. Commercials during the league's All-Star Game on Turner's TNT, to be played on Feb. 18--in the middle of the Winter [...]

WITH THE BACKDROP of a plunging stock market in the background, media companies are reporting calendar fourth-quarter earnings propped up by corporate tax cuts and trying to convince investors there [...]

THOSE 'REAL MEN WATCH BRAVO' T-shirts that are already a top seller on the network's website might become an even hotter item, thanks to a new promotional campaign the network [...]

CORD-CUTTERS SAY they are saving an average of $115 per month according to a new survey conducted by personal finance website LendEdu, which also found that within five years more [...]

WHILE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS got ready to watch the Super Bowl this past weekend, Dish Network was selling commercials programmatically in the programming on its Sling TV streaming platform leading [...]

AFTER OUSTING founder Roger Ailes and top-rated on-air host Bill O'Reilly in response to sexual harassment charges, Fox News Channel filled several top posts with senior women executives, including Marianne [...]

THERE WERE ONLY NINE MINUTES of commercials in last week's premiere of Waco, the first piece of high-profile, big-ticket programming on Viacom's new Paramount Network. The low advertising load--with half [...]