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Media consolidation had a big impact on BROADCASTING & CABLE's Top 25 Media Groups this year: Twenty positions were occupied by different companies last year. Just last week, Vivendi closed [...]

Digital cable is all the rage in cable these days. Big operators are fixated on it; programmers are cobbling together new networks to fill the extra channels it creates. But [...]

BROADCASTING & CABLE'S powers that be are topped by Time Warner, whose TV networks, cable systems, movie studio, books and magazines generated more than $20 billion last year. But look [...]

Earlier this year, it seemed that it might happen: As the broadcast networks struggled with a difficult ad climate, a number of analysts predicted that home shopping network QVC might [...]

Sports Net, broadcast division capitalize on 'patriotic and very American' game With plenty of big story lines heading into the playoffs, Fox Sports' baseball coverage has scored higher ratings, and [...]

Since re-branding, the Hallmark Channel has raised what was Odyssey Channel's household ratings by 50% and key female demos by more than 300% over last [...]

CNN feels the heat, USA continues to decline in July cable ratings Helped by the Chandra Levy mystery, Fox News Channel is continuing its ratings tear, besting CNN for the [...]

THE MARKET DMA rank 13 Population 3,986,000 TV homes 1,510,000 Income per capita $18,886 TV revenue rank 16 TV revenue $319 million COMMERCIAL TV STATIONS Rank [*] Ch. Affil. Owner [...]

Minneapolis and St. Paul have sort of a split personality. While the two comprise the Largest urban center in Minnesota and are home to many Large corporations, they are also [...]

Web Watch TV-NEWS SITES March 2001 Ranked by gender composition Rank Site Males 18+ Chg. [**] 1 BLOOMBERG.COM 71.8 up 2 CNNFN.COM [*] 70.5 down 3 FOXNEWS.COM 67.4 up 4 [...]

Women's net hits No. 1 for month in cable Nielsens USA Networks' loss of the World Wrestling Federation is causing the expected shakeup in the cable Nielsen rankings, with Lifetime [...]

DEMO TRACKER: MALES 50 PLUS Following are the top 10 basic cable programs for the week of Jan. 8-14 ranked by rating. Cable rating is coverage area rating within each [...]

CABLE'S TOP 20 Following are the top 20 basic cable programs for the week of Jan. 8-14 ranked by rating. Cable rating is coverage area rating within each basic cable [...]

Cable Watch DATE DEC. 25-31 Cable programing ratings according to Nielsen Media Research CABLE'S TOP 20 Following are the top 20 basic cable programs for the week of Dec. 25-31 [...]

Morgan Stanley financial analysis of the eight largest cable operators puts Comcast on top Cable can look like a pretty homogeneous business. Systems offer a rather similar lineup of cable [...]

The ratings boost from covering two weeks of presidential uncertainty has led CNN to reconsider its show Lineup. Commentary and single-anchor news shows with the likes of Greta Van Susteren [...]

The inaugural episode of the WWF's Raw is War on TNN pulled in a 5.5 rating for the network--not a stunning number for the franchise itself, but certainly on par [...]

Early ratings suggest summer broadcast onslaught was toothless This summer's broadcast blitzkrieg barely bruised cable. Despite the fascination with Survivor and Big Brother on CBS; despite the continuing power of [...]

Few networks have had as tumultuous a recent past as Court TV, and few have made turnarounds as dramatic as the basic cable network founded by Steven Brill in 1991. [...]

Coca-Cola--sponsored 'Young Americans' debuted Wednesday on The WB to respectable ratings success. In households, the show posted a 2.3/4 share, which was 44% higher than its Dawson's Creek lead-in. More [...]

PEOPLE'S CHOICE Trailblazers' Brian Grant reaches for a win against the Jazz, snatching the No. 5 spot for TNT with a 3.6 rating/5.8 share. The NBA hoisted TNT to five [...]

PEOPLE'S CHOICE MTV's 'Jailbait' scored Sunday night with a 3.5 rating/5.1 share. The movie reached 3.9 million viewers, beating out ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and The WB among 12- to [...]

NAACP report card slams cable hiring, buying Cable operators received mediocre scores on hiring and other support of minorities as the industry became the latest targeted by the NAACP. The [...]

In last week's story on page 47, 'Sweeps swept cable,' all ratings cited were for prime time. In the People's Choice ratings box on page 55 of last week's issue, [...]

The cable ratings went to the dogs last week as USA's annual presentation of the Westminster Dog Show ranked Nos. 4 and 5--a combined 7.7 rating/11.7 share. Following are the [...]

For the week ended Jan. 23, long-running Studios USA action hour Hercules: The Legendary Journeys struck its final blow with a season-high rating of 3.9, to place it in a [...]

On the strength of Pokemon, Kids' WB! captured the fourth-quarter ratings crown among all networks, broadcast and cable, on Saturday mornings in kids 2-11. Kids' WB! averaged a 4.2 rating/18 [...]

The James Bond marathon helped TBS shake. and stir last week's cable ratings. Sean Connery's 'Diamonds Are Forever' was the highest rated film, with a 3.6 rating/5.4 share. Following are [...]

Barry who? As the Detroit Lions scored over Tampa Bay, ESPN scored in the cable ratings. Its Sunday night telecast was atop, with an 8.2 rating/13 share. Following are the [...]

B&C 1999 TV news director survey finds NBC 'strongest,' 'Nightly News' 'best'; CNN moves into second place NBC News is the best TV news organization in the land, according to [...]

The Weather Channel coverage of Hurricane Dennis Aug. 28-29 resulted in the seventh-highest weekend rating in six years for the network, according to Nielsen Media Research. Viewership peaked on Saturday [...]

TBS hit the proverbial jackpot with its premiere of the Chevy Chase comedy 'Vegas Vacation.' Two airings both cracked the top 10, with a combined 7.8 rating/14 share. Following are [...]

TNT'S original drama 'The Hunley' was the highest rated movie in last week's cable ratings. It ranked No. 3 with a 4.2 rating and a 7.3 share. Following are the [...]

While ET on MTV has the Entertainment Tonight brand all over it, the show feels totally MTV. But the point of putting FT on MTV. as well as on its [...]

CNBC's ratings rose in the 7:30 p.m. weeknight slot last week when it replaced Great Stuff, a show about high-priced gadgets and lifestyle perks, with the political-issues talk show Equal [...]

With a historic vote last August, the FCC rewrote the rules of children's programing for broadcasters. But the new three-hour weekly standard for children's educational fare isn't the biggest concern [...]

USA Network's $175 million original programing strategy has yet to pay dividends in the ratings department. For its third quarter ended Sept. 30, USA's daypart and prime time Nielsen ratings [...]

Gavel-to-gavel coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial by cable networks and some broadcast stations took its toll on syndicated ratings in February, particularly in afternoon time periods. That's the conclusion [...]

Syndication, cable prepare to make their marks in May Syndicators are supercharging their game shows, series and talk shows for this month's sweeps with special guests and events, including a [...]

SCI FI CHANNEL's newest miniseries, Battlestar Galactica, which aired Dec. 8 and 9, averaged a hearty. 4.2 million viewers and a 3.5 rating, the net's highest rating for [...]

Cable consolidation opponents clearly lacked a kitchen sink or they would have tossed that in along with everything else they threw at the industry in a scathing report labeled 'The [...]

ESPN is ready for a different breed of football with Playmakers, its first original scripted series, bowing Aug 26 at 9 p.m. ET. The 11-part drama chronicles a fictional pro [...]

While there are few syndicated launches slated for fall 2003, 2004 already is hopping. Coming next year is Twentieth's still untitled show with American Idol star Ryan Seacrest, NBC Enterprises' [...]

If you watch HBO, you know you can depend on seeing some pretty good television. Some of the television is better than most of the movies. But I would. like [...]

The post office sells books of stamps, and had CBS News just spent an extra 37 cents, it could have kept itself off of the front page of The New [...]

Never one to miss an opportunity to take a shot at cable, NAB President Eddie Fritts did just that in his state-of-the-industry address at the annual convention last week. 'The [...]

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (above) has written CEOs of the top five cable companies praising the Cablevision/YES sports channel deal as one that 'appears to provide consumers with [...]

There's an old sick joke about a man applying for a job at the railroad, who's asked by the boss what he'd do if he saw two trains heading for [...]

The first family David Scott worked for in the cable business was the Horvitzes: Harry, Bill and Leonard Horvitz, who spent 10 years fighting in court until a judge ordered [...]

When another of those bleed-for-me/cry-for-me/vomit-for-me geek shows that pass for reality TV was demonstrating what a sleazy carnival sideshow the TV medium can be, we caught a repeat of Door [...]