Oprah Cancels Herself
Despite the fact that it was a modest hit, and won its time slot on Sunday nights, the reality show Oprah’s Big Give will not return to ABC next year.
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Despite the fact that it was a modest hit, and won its time slot on Sunday nights, the reality show Oprah’s Big Give will not return to ABC next year.
The CW is programming just 10 hours of the week, and the focus of the fledgling network with this fall’s season is the young, female audience.
'Christine' returns after all CBS is the only network planning to air two full nights of comedy in the fall season. The network is building on its Monday block of four comedies, adding two on Wednesday night.
The strike impaired ABC’s development of new television shows, and the network plans to unveil only two new series in the fall - and only one of them scripted.
NBC’s unusual upfront garnered mixed reviews from the media crowd; some blamed the network for using the new format to draw attention away from a weak programming slate, while others liked the innovative format.
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NBCU produces nearly 100 health video clips per week across its various networks, local stations and web properties. Now, the network plans to package and distribute them across a network of niche websites.
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The May sweeps are down by 7 million viewers compared to November 2007 sweeps, and many of the networks’ most popular shows are drawing between 2 million and 3 million fewer viewers than in the fall.
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Nielsen’s C3 ratings, which will be used as currency during the upfront (taking place as we speak) for the second year in a row, have failed to achieve accreditation from the Media Rating Council.
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Fallon When Conan O’Brien steps off NBC’s Late Night stage to take over the Tonight show from Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon will step into the spotlight.
NBCU plans to launch a 24-hour cable news channel in New York in November, covering the New York region, including New Jersey and Connecticut.
Gas consumers across the country increasingly have something to occupy their time beyond fuming about rising fuel prices as they pump gas. Three companies are now offering news and entertainment at the pump.
ABC has chopped Men in Trees from its schedule, deciding not to renew the hour-long comedy that has seen six different time slots in its two-year run.
NBC plans to tell advertisers next week that, if they want to get an ad in the Super Bowl, they must pony up $3 million - a price increase of more than 10 percent, roughly double the annual increase.
Product placements for the first quarter of 2008 rose 6% on primetime programming for the 11 measured networks on broadcast (ABC, CBS, CW, FOX, MNT, NBC) and cable television (A&E, Bravo, HGTV, MTV, TLC), according to Nielsen, writes MarketingCharts.
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TV Guide Network promised - and apparently delivered - higher ratings to NBC if the network advertised within the pages of the TV Guide magazine and on the TV Guide Network.
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Networks are bulking up their summer skeds with reality programming and game shows, along with a smattering of scripted fare.
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TNS, the research company that has been pushing into the ratings space via digital TV set-top data, has turned down a $1.87 billion buyout offer from WPP Group.
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Time Warner Inc., following news that it slipped 36 percent in Q1 earnings from a year ago, announced that it will spin off the rest of its cable TV biz.
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The WB, the television network that was dissolved nearly two years ago when it became part of the CW, is being reborn online.
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The C3 metric has benefited the television industry, according to a panel of buyers and sellers at MediaPost’s Outfront event on Thursday.
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