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Old sources of funding drying up for Community Access Television Once graced with a steady and secure flow of funding, Nashville Community Access Television (CAT) must now search for new [...]

Granite Broadcasting did some fancy footwork to land the NBC affiliate in the fifth market Don Cornwell, CEO of Granite Broadcasting (No. 11 on this year's BE INDUSTRIAL/SERVICE 100 list [...]

Although Austin's television business has been slumping along with the rest of the nation's television industry, observers believe the city's five major stations will maintain slow but steady growth. The [...]

Television stations, strapped for cash, are increasingly using barter to finance syndicated shows. For years the practice was limited to weekend shows, which realized little ad revenue, but after projected increases in ad revenue never materialized, barter was extended to top-rated shows. A typical episode of 'Roseanne,' for instance, includes at least 30 seconds of barter. First-run shows, which typically lose money in their first year, have also become the object of this sort of deficit financing., In the syndication business, cash has always been king. But in today's TV market barter is quickly joining the royal ranks. Hammered by the recession and strapped for cash, stations [...]

Broadcast TV Revenues Drop NEW YORK-Broadcast TV revenues for the first half of 1991 were down 4.9% from the same period a year ago, according to the Television Bureau of [...]

Manual helps nonprofits to use cable access TV Because of the amateurish image of many local cable access channels, nonprofits tend to overlook them as a resource for fundraising or [...]