LOS ANGELES (AP) — Analysts on Monday praised a reported deal for CBS Corp. to buy up to a 50 percent stake in the TV Guide Network, which it would ...
I was comfortable with my kink, but tired of all the work it took to maintain it.
I was addicted to the London Olympics... in fact, so was my whole family. Don't feel bad. The truth is you are only one of close to 5 billion people who, at one time or another during the event, tuned in and viewed the games and all the resultant hoopla.
NEW YORK (AP) — Defying trends that have hurt the news industry, the average broadcast television station in the United States has added nearly an h...
Expressing opinion in journalism isn't a fault in itself. But the veiling of that opinion behind a supposedly right vs. wrong debate of ever-increasing decibels, over-simplifications and extreme biases is.
Over the past several weeks, my television has been receiving high-definition feeds of ABC, Fox, NBC and CBS, even though I haven't paid Comcast or Ti...
Cable and the Internet permanently took viewers away from the broadcasters, while the time-shifting magic of DVR technology makes watching any scheduled television show outside of sporting events a rarity.
Unmentioned is that the payroll-tax cut bill, by bipartisan agreement, sets in motion a much larger transfer of public assets to the top 1%.
PHILADELPHIA -- The nation's first free broadcast network targeting African-American audiences arrived in the nation's fourth-largest media market on ...
On the bottom of the front cover was his picture in a mug shot. As the legendary attorney Frank Haddad said, "no one looks good in a mug shot." John Boel didn't either. The Louisville news anchor who won seventy Emmy awards had a problem.
It's not every day that you can celebrate a win for the public over big media. But on Thursday a federal appeals court threw out an attempt by the FCC and industry titans to gut media ownership limits.
It stands to reason that as America grows more multilingual, we'll hear more Spanish on the airwaves. And some of that Spanish will be of the naughty variety.
By Maura Kelly The headlines about the Irish economy may be all doom and gloom but there is a magical side to it if you look at its exports. Namely, ...
Here we go again. People who aren't "broadcasters" are messing around with the broadcast signal, all to make it more convenient to "watch TV." You know what that means -- lawsuits.
Forty years after the federal government ruled that broadcast networks could not own cable systems, the FCC decided that Comcast, by far the largest of all cable system companies, could take control of NBC Universal, Inc.
NEW YORK — For years, executives at ABC, Fox and NBC essentially stopped caring about television viewers once they had reached 50 years old. Yo...
Positioning themselves as David to the broadcasters' Goliath, Ivi TV has launched a streaming TV service built around their own player and clearly tapping network TV channels in New York City and Seattle.
NEW YORK — Americans avoided television in historic levels over the past week. CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox together had the smallest number of prime-...
Our ability to respond to fast-moving changes in the global technological and demographic environment is hampered by chronic functional problems with the organization in charge, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG).
The media have adopted the GOP's propaganda that whether health care reform passes or fails, it will be bad for the president and the Dems. The more they repeat this, the more people believe it's true.
He's far less sanguine about free TV--a dinosaur awaiting a meteor strike. "The broadcast networks have fewer people watching, for shorter times of...
CNN started out by merely being good (remember?), an antidote to the hoary network news bureaus. But with success comes hubris and imitators and competition and eventual madness.
Alex Jones writes that the implosion of the business model for traditional media is creating a vacuum in the type of news gathering, analysis or revelatory investigation which is in the public interest.
Wikipedia defines this word as: "... American political jargon that is used as a strong pejorative description of some kind of attack that the speaker...
Cronkite heralded an age that ha fallen by the wayside for ratings. The bitter irony is that the issues are as compelling today as they were fifty years ago, and we hunger for information and commentary that we can trust.
