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Update: The Murdochs' trial began on September 16th TO A CASUAL observer, the media industry's most consequential succession battle looked to be over. In September 2023 Rupert Murdoch https://www.economist.com/business/2023/09/22/rupert-murdoch-isnt-going-anywhere-just-yet of [...]

Byline: Kevin Oklobzija With cable provider Charter Communications and entertainment conglomerate Disney stalemated over programming rights fees, state Sen. Jeremy Cooney (D-Rochester) is calling on the Public Service Commission to [...]

[down arrow] MSNBC moves the host's daily version of Meet the Press off of its daytime linear TV lineup to a streaming-only offering, reducing visibility of the show. Please Note: [...]

Would AT&T have greenlit him? hbo's boss resigns, raising questions about WarnerMedia's strategy for streaming ON THE EVENING of February 28th Casey Bloys, president of programming for HBO, a television [...]

Women make up more than half of the U.S. population and are making progress across the business world. But in television, scattered gains don't add up to overall parity on [...]

The behind-the-scenes story of HBO's nearly 50-year history is chronicled in investigative reporter James Andrew Miller's latest book, Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers. Miller--the former Washington Post reporter [...]

If it wasn't clear before, Comcast's deal to acquire a big chunk of Icontrol Networks delivered a powerful message to the home-security and automation sector: The cable industry is through [...]

A&E Networks Sales Point Person: Mel Berning, executive vp, national ad sales Programming: New: The Cleaner (A&E), Tougher in Alaska (History) Returning: Intervention (A&E), Ice Road Truckers (History) Analysis: Over [...]

On March 23, 16 meeting planners arrived in New Orleans on a fact-finding mission organized by Successful Meetings and our sister publication, MeetingNews, through a partnership with the Krisam Group, [...]

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the TV's top drama show is into its sixth season. The changes to the plot of the show is discussed, where CSI detectives reorganize into one team at the start of the season

Comcast, a Philadelphia-based company, whose 21.5 million customers make it the nation's largest cable operator, as a multiyear $38 billion makeover of its vast fiberoptic network heads toward completion. However, Comcast is on course for at least two or there years of 20%-to-30% annual growth in free cash flow, as it scales back capital spending and ramps up its new services.

Opportunities. Possibilities. Growth potential. New markets. Those are words that have been used for years to describe home shopping in the United States. These days, those same words are now [...]

THIS TIME LAST YEAR, as Discovery Networks was entering its first upfront with Billy Campbell and Joe Abruzzese at the helm, a noticeable tension ran through the executive ranks of [...]

Michelle Sie Whitten may appear diminutive among satellite dishes that pull television signals from the sky. But as CEO of Encore International Inc. her market is almost as big as [...]

By day, MSNBC is a first-rate news operation. At night, it gets hysterical-witness Michael Savage's self-immolation, Chris Matthews' high-volume interrogations, and Joe Scarborough's Fox-inspired swagger. An NBC in-house study suggests [...]

In early June, I found myself on assignment for The Advocate at the Playboy Mansion, at a party celebrating TNN's relaunch as Spike TV, a network for men. After rubbing [...]

TV networks will pay out about $5.8 billion on sports rights next year. The Big Four broadcasters will spend almost as much on sports as they do on sitcoms and [...]

They compete on a daily basis to land precious channel slots for their networks, and they are the targets of MSO ire over spiraling program costs. A veritable Who's Who [...]

Henry Schleiff isn't a practicing lawyer, but he plays one in the TV world. His expansive corner office overlooking Manhattan's Third Avenue resembles that of a partner in a white-shoe [...]

Under the unapologetic guidance of Chris Albrecht, HBO has consistently green-lighted edgy breakout hits that the broadcast nets can't help but admire--and envy. Advertisers may put their money in broadcast-network [...]

LIKE many others around the world in September 2001, I watched the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on my local television station in `real time'. All of the [...]

As the residential market grows, it is important that we are all aware of issues that need to be addressed to get the market from an early-adopter stage to maturity [...]

THE BIRTH DATE OF THE music video is generally accepted to be 1975. Bruce Gowers' film to accompany the Queen single, Bohemian Rhapsody was the first real pop promo. But [...]