Broadcasting & Cable News

Going Out With a Bang: A Look at ‘The Big Bang Theory’ Audience and Advertisers

September 30, 2018

This week marks the beginning of the final season of the CBS smash hit The Big Bang Theory, so we partnered with real-time TV ad measurement company iSpot.tv to examine advertiser trends over the last two seasons plus the final-season premiere (we looked at first-run episodes only. The data below ...

Big Raises For Murdochs For Making Disney Deal

September 30, 2018

The Murdochs did such a good job selling asset to the The Walt Disney Co., that the three members of the family in top executive positions at 21st Century Fox got big stock awards and bonuses. Total compensation in the fiscal year ended June 2018 for CEO James Murdoch and chairman Lachlan Murdoch ...

Kavanaugh Vote Set for 1:30 p.m.

September 30, 2018

The Senate Republican Majority on the Judiciary Committee has scheduled a vote on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court for 1:30 p.m. Friday. Democrats strongly objected, but the motion carried 11 to 8, with two Democrats refusing even to vote because they said it was unfair. ...

Journalists Make Case for Trump Interference in AT&T-Time Warner Deal

September 30, 2018

Journalists are telling a federal court that there were solid reasons to believe that President Donald Trump's animus toward CNN played a role in the Administration's attempt to block the merger of CNN parent Time Warner with AT&T and that a lower court should have allowed that "selective ...

Tribune Charitable Foundation Donates $50K for Hurricane Relief

September 30, 2018

Tribune Media said its charitable foundation will contribute $50,000 to help in relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Florence. The foundation said it would earmark $25,000 for the Salvation Army and another $25,000 to The American Red Cross. According to Tribune Media, the contributions follow ...

ACA: MVPDs Should Get Priority Access to Repack Funds

September 30, 2018

The American Cable Association says MPVDs and full power and Class A TV stations should get priority access to $400 million in 2019 incentive auction relocation funds before FM radio stations or low powers and translators get a share. The latter were initially not included in the fund, set up to ...

Primetime Ratings: ‘Thursday Night Football’ Paces Fox

September 30, 2018

Fox won the Thursday ratings race by a mile, as its first night of Thursday Night Football led the network to a 3.2 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 13 share. That beat the 1.5/6 put up by ABC. Football took up the Fox prime, as the Rams won a wild one against the ...

White House Holds 5G Summit

September 30, 2018

The White House held a summit on 5G Friday, the deployment of which is a priority both for the Trump Administration and its pick for FCC chair, Ajit Pai. Not surprisingly, then, the summit heard from both the White House's chief communications policy advisor, David Redl, head of the National ...

‘King Lear’ Debuts on Amazon

September 30, 2018

King Lear, starring Anthony Hopkins as the embattled king, debuts on Amazon Prime Sept. 28. Emma Thompson, Emily Watson, Florence Pugh and Jim Broadbent are also in the film’s cast. Richard Eyre directed. William Shakespeare wrote King Lear. Set in the present, the King Lear film begins as the ...