The prime-time "stars" of this summer are regular folks willing to humiliate themselves on national television.
Broadcast networks are the place to be for prime-time competitions -- if little else.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The NFL Network and Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN are in talks about a partnership, a person familiar with the talks told The Associated Press.
The NFL Network and Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN are in talks about a partnership, a person familiar with the talks told The Associated Press.
Like the dramatic final scene of "The Sopranos," if you haven't adequately prepared for the transition to digital television on Feb. 17, 2009, your television screen could fade to black.
Hey you, media consumer. You used to be a TV watcher. But an excess of choices has left you changed -- and perhaps spoiled.
In the aftermath of the writer's strike - and with ever-increasing competition from the Internet, cable channels and digital video recorders - primetime network television isn't the all-powerful medium it used to be.
The future of television is changing before our eyes, as media giants scramble to stake their claims in the wilderness of Internet video.
So much for a weak dollar and stronger global economy helping to lift results for large multinational companies like General Electric.
General Electric's latest attempt to revive its troubled NBC television unit with a 65-week "superseason" of fresh programming is grabbing a lot of headlines these days. But some investors wonder if it's worth the conglomerate's trouble.
The prime-time "stars" of this summer are regular folks willing to humiliate themselves on national television.
Broadcast networks are the place to be for prime-time competitions -- if little else.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The NFL Network and Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN are in talks about a partnership, a person familiar with the talks told The Associated Press.
The NFL Network and Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN are in talks about a partnership, a person familiar with the talks told The Associated Press.
Like the dramatic final scene of "The Sopranos," if you haven't adequately prepared for the transition to digital television on Feb. 17, 2009, your television screen could fade to black.
Hey you, media consumer. You used to be a TV watcher. But an excess of choices has left you changed -- and perhaps spoiled.
In the aftermath of the writer's strike - and with ever-increasing competition from the Internet, cable channels and digital video recorders - primetime network television isn't the all-powerful medium it used to be.
The future of television is changing before our eyes, as media giants scramble to stake their claims in the wilderness of Internet video.
So much for a weak dollar and stronger global economy helping to lift results for large multinational companies like General Electric.
General Electric's latest attempt to revive its troubled NBC television unit with a 65-week "superseason" of fresh programming is grabbing a lot of headlines these days. But some investors wonder if it's worth the conglomerate's trouble.
It's no secret that the Internet, digital video recorders and video games are sucking audiences away from broadcast television and radio. Just how painful that shift is for traditional media hit home Tuesday when CBS, owner of the country's most popular television network, released its earnings.
Last year featured a number of intriguing storylines in American MMA. The UFC established itself as the number one MMA brand in this country, if not most of the world, while PRIDE was dismantled. Steroids became a major topic as high-profile fighters failed drug tests. And, for the first time in this country, a MMA fighter succumbed to injuries suffered at a sanctioned event. So, what are some potential storylines in 2008? Here are five things to look for as we begin the new year.
This is "Green Week" at NBC Universal, a seven-day revelry of environment-themed content spread across the company's various TV channels and other properties. The 150 hours of programming - integrated into everything from news and sports to soaps and entertainment - is certainly a first for a major media company.
General Electric won't make a decision on whether or not to sell its NBC Universal unit until after it is done broadcasting the 2008 Olympics from Beijing, according to a published report.
With many viewers apparently outside enjoying summer's last hurrah, the broadcast television networks hit a negative ratings trifecta only a few weeks before the start of the fall season.
Walt Disney Co. reported a 4.7 percent increase in net profit Wednesday, driven by strong television program sales and higher receipts at its theme parks.
The Fox Broadcasting Co. Monday named Kevin Reilly, the recently ousted programming chief at rival television network NBC, as entertainment president, pairing him with his former cable TV boss, Peter Liguori.
Cable television shows, unless they are the series finale of "The Sopranos," often don't generate the types of ratings that come anything close to what even the least-watched programs on the free broadcast networks get. But cable TV is actually among the hotter segments of the media business these days.
It has already revolutionized the music business with its iPod device and iTunes music store. Now will Apple help kill the television's industry historic reliance on the 30-second TV commercial to help pay the bills?
The hunt is still on for Web giant Google to find a willing television partner, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
Verizon Wireless is expected to announce Sunday that it will offer full-length programming to its cellular subscribers from major U.S. television networks, The New York Times reported Saturday.
Greek authorities are investigating one of the country's most mysterious murder cases after a family of hunters was killed over the weekend while pursuing their hobby in the plains of central Greece.
Most media stocks have enjoyed a revival on Wall Street this year after a disappointing 2005. But whether or not the group finishes the year on a strong note will largely depend on what three industry leaders say in their upcoming earnings releases.
When FORTUNE caught up with YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen a few days after Google purchased their company for $1.65 billion, they had few insights to share--even about what it feels l...
When Carl Icahn tried to force Time Warner to split into four companies in February, it was easy to suggest that Icahn was being unfair in his criticism of the media giant.
Television advertising executives are biting their nails this year as advance ad sales fall short of last year's tally, according to a report Wednesday.
There has been a lot of chatter about how network television is starting to lose some of its allure thanks to the growing popularity of online video and digital video recorders that allow people to fast forward through ads.
Sluggish. Challenging. Difficult.
CBS gets a bad rap.
The major TV networks trotted out their biggest stars and presented their fall schedules to advertisers this week during lavish presentations in New York City known as the upfronts.
Walt Disney, one of the world's largest media companies, reported better than expected fiscal second-quarter earnings Tuesday thanks to strength in its network TV and cable business. But revenues were a bit lower than analysts were hoping for due to sales declines in the company's film studio and consumer products businesses.
Leslie Moonves has spent his entire career trying to get people to watch television. He's been pretty good at it too. When he was president of Warner Bros. Television in the early '90s, he oversaw ...
Leslie Moonves has spent his entire career trying to get people to watch television. He's been pretty good at it too. When he was president of Warner Bros. Television in the early '90s, he oversaw the development of hit shows like Friends and ER, which became part of NBC's Thursday night "Must-see TV" lineup. He leaped to CBS in 1995 and proceeded to break the Peacock network's hold on Thursday night with phenomenally popular shows like Survivor and CSI.
Is the old-fashioned 30-second TV commercial destined to go the way of the dinosaur, the wooly mammoth and the dodo?
On 52 nights last season the most watched television network among 18- to 34-year-olds was not ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, or even youth-oriented outlets like the WB and UPN. It was Univision, the Spanish-...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Once again, there are six major TV networks. Or is it five and a quarter?
CBS is looking to sell its theme parks, which account for about $1.1 billion in annual sales, according to a published report.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Who will be the big winner from the creation of the new CW television network? Here's a hint. It might not be CW or even the other major TV networks.
We all know the type. He's a 25-year-old dude who spends about four hours a week playing videogames. Squanders five or so more hours each week watching movies. Fritters away another nine hours on t...
Drugmakers have cut television ad spending by 10 percent in the first quarter from a year ago, the sharpest decline in two years, a newspaper said Tuesday.
Two major TV networks agreed to run a new campaign for Trojan condoms on primetime Tuesday, according to the New York Post.
The U.S. advertising market is looking increasingly like a tale of two cities.
ABC, the Walt Disney-owned network that pulled itself out of a ratings slump this year, has lined up initial ad sales at higher rates than last year, according to a new report.
The long running "Monday Night Football" has found a new home, moving from the Disney-owned ABC network to the company's sister cable channel ESPN in 2006, according to a news report Monday.
As the world watched Iraq's historic elections Sunday, Arab media weighed in with a mix of hope, concern, and skepticism. The following is a selection of quotes from Arabic newspapers as well as TV networks:
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. said late Thursday it will replace Sharon Patrick with former ABC Entertainment president Susan Lyne as its new president and chief executive officer.
"Lost," "Desperate Housewives" and "Wife Swap." Desperate measures for desperate times -- the long-struggling ABC network took a gamble this season with risky, edgy shows, and it's paying off.
Russia said it still has concerns about the draft U.N. resolution on Iraq proposed by the United States and Britain and that it "needs some hard work," according to Interfax.
The Arabic-language television network Al-Jazeera showed video Wednesday of three Italian hostages taken captive in Iraq nearly two months ago. In the video, one of the men said the captors were treating them "excellently."
What do you get when you mix spouse-swapping, anxious housewives and yet more lawyers behaving badly?
The Triple Crown of advertising sales kicked off Monday and all bets are on cable channels to make further strides against major broadcast networks.
The annual Preakness Stakes of advertising sales kicks off Monday and all bets are on cable channels to make further strides against major broadcast networks.
Former U.S. vice president Al Gore announced Tuesday that he and entrepreneur Joel Hyatt plan to launch their own cable television network by buying cable television channel NewsWorld International from Vivendi Universal for an undisclosed sum.
The ABC television network, owned by The Walt Disney Company, shook up its entertainment division Tuesday, announcing a series of major changes led by the departure of ABC Entertainment Television Group Chairman Lloyd Braun and ABC Entertainment Television President Susan Lyne.
Citing reports by Arabic-language television networks they considered erroneous, U.S. military representatives urged Tuesday that reporting from some news organizations not be taken at face value.
Victoria's Secret, owned by Limited Brands Inc., is dropping its racy televised fashion show this year, but a spokesman for the company told CNN/Money on Monday that it has very little to do with Janet Jackson's breast-baring move at this year's Super Bowl.
All night long the fax machine at Jay Leno's house spits out jokes. It delivers jokes about President Bush, the Democrats who want to unseat him, Martha Stewart, Michael Jackson and his sister Jane...
Ah, the laments that have been lamented for the broadcast television networks. They were going to be nibbled to death by cable. They were going to be obsoleted by interactivity. They would be swept...
Last December, some of the biggest names in the television business gathered in a brownstone on Manhattan's Upper East Side for Viacom's annual Christmas party. It was the company's first holiday c...
What's the old saying? Be careful what you wish for? If America Online and Time Warner think they've had an agonizing time getting their merger past Washington regulators--and yes, they have--just ...
I predict that mass culture will persist.
One of the notable things about the presidential primaries so far is the largely superficial treatment given to the candidates' economic views. Charges and countercharges about tax reform, tax cuts...
Flying to Europe these days is like landing in Silicon Valley circa 1998. Office parks outside capitals from Stockholm to Rome are filling up with media companies and tech startups. Cafes are packe...
When Steve Case applied for a job at Time Inc.'s cable TV network, HBO, in 1980, he was fresh out of college and brimming with big ideas about the future. Brashly, he predicted that "innovations in...
Whenever a couple of media titans are spotted having lunch, Wall Street analysts and the press start blurting out the "s" word. It happened most recently when CBS and Viacom announced their $36 bil...
Michael Eisner, the famously hands-on CEO of Walt Disney, is up to his old tricks. Last night he screened a rough cut of Dinosaurs, Disney's big animated movie for next summer; he loved the story b...
With the broadcast networks losing market share and making slim profits, you'd think they'd be focused on creating new hits. Alas, programming a TV network in a world of clashing media titans isn't...
Barry Diller doesn't blink. When you meet him, that's the first thing you notice. His stare feels demanding--though some of the many journalists who have called on Diller in the past have described...
Considering Scott Sassa's career, you might think his main talent is failing his way to success. He got fired from Fox Broadcasting by Barry Diller, squeezed out of Time Warner by Ted Turner, and n...
In a good week, NBC sells $100 million of TV advertising. That's more than Yahoo has sold so far this year and about four times what MSNBC.com has sold since its launch two years ago--evidence that...
Wall Street's favorite TV show these days is not Seinfeld, ER, or the CNBC stock ticker but a CBS drama that we'll call The Mel and Les Show. It stars Mel Karmazin, 54, the pugnacious radio mogul w...
Michael Jordan, the CEO of CBS, had lots to celebrate the week after Thanksgiving. His network had just won the November sweep, toppling NBC to become America's most-watched broadcaster. Flanked by...
Traditionalists at NBC were appalled. General Electric CEO Jack Welch had announced that he was changing the name of the landmark RCA Building at 30 Rockefeller Center to the GE Building. This was ...
Last winter, Disney's power Michaels, Eisner and Ovitz, were eager to get a big star onto their newly purchased network, ABC. So they flew the star's people out to L.A. Met for lunch in the Disney ...
Leslie Moonves can't escape his job as president of CBS Entertainment. His home fax machine beeps at dawn with the overnight Nielsen ratings. He spends evenings poring over scripts and screening vi...
Shaped like a snub-nosed bullet, the ruthless billionaire who controls CBS may be the world's worst broadcaster, but Laurence A. Tisch is close to making a killing from the Tiffany Network's tatter...
HE HAS BEEN LAMPOONED, vilified, and skewered for pulling apart CBS and turning television's Tiffany network into costume jewelry. For Larry Tisch, heading CBS must sometimes seem like a long run t...
ON THE WALL of Rupert Murdoch's office at Twentieth Century Fox are four clocks, keeping track of the time in Los Angeles, London, Sydney, and Hong Kong. They remind visitors that here resides a gl...
SELLING to customers in the Nineties is like running a hurdle race. In the Eighties, Americans wanted quality, paid up for it, and -- lucky for marketers -- even flaunted it. Now consumer-products ...
ACCORDING TO Robert Wright, CEO of the National Broadcasting Co., here's how network television works: ''We're buying the most expensive programming available and taking it off the air quickly.''
With the audience for network TV declining, NBC President Robert C. Wright has been itching to get into cable. He plans to provide 24 hours of programming -- business news in the daytime and sports...
There must be a media company somewhere that Rupert Murdoch does not want to get his mitts on, but trying to name it would be foolish.
The battle for the rights to televise National Football League games is as intense as sudden death overtime. A weak advertising market and the emergence of upstart cable and independent TV networks...
The U.S. will soon have what is billed as a fourth TV network. Fox Broadcasting Co., the subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. that operates the six TV stations formerly owned by Metromedia, wi...
THE TELEVISION networks are well aware of viewers' complaints that their favorite programs are submerged in a sea of commercials, station breaks, and promotional spots. But under prodding from adve...
$ Viacom International consolidated its position in the fast-shifting tangle of cable television by buying the half of Showtime/The Movie Channel it didn't already own and all of MTV Networks, prod...
NBC TELEVISION owes Atlantic Richfield Co. a lunch, a debt incurred by Thornton Bradshaw early in 1981 as he was preparing to leave as president of the oil company to take over at RCA Corp., NBC's ...
ROBERT C. WRIGHT, president of NBC, is the luckiest guy in network television. His company takes in 40% of the industry's revenues, earns about 70% of the profits, and broadcasts the four top-rated...
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