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Fewer than one in 30 school staff regularly watch Teachers' TV, a TV station for teachers which receives UKPd20 million/yr funding from the Department for Education and Skills. For its first six months, the channel had an average of just 280,000 viewers/month, but the channel's governors claim they are pleased with the audience figures, contending that they show the channel to be a cost-effective method of providing teacher training.

The details on the increase of annual programming budget to More4 by Channel 4 are examined.

With less than two months until lilt general election. President George Bush and Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry are dominating the airwaves in newscasts and commercials in a campaign that [...]

NEW YORK -- After months of discussions, CBS announced Monday that its affils have agreed to share the cost of the net's $6.2 billion NCAA basketball deal over the next [...]

Thanks to the sagging local ad market, TV-station groups are starting to post weak third-quarter results, but the first round of reports don't show any disasters. The first TV groups [...]

TORONTO -- Canadian broadcaster Craig Media Inc. is scheduled to launch a new Toronto TV station Sept. 19 and said it will invest nearly $10.7 million over five years in […]

There is nothing quite like a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to shed light on a company's finances. Take for example KARK-TV, Channel 4. It was owned [...]

TEL AVIV, Israel -- Israel's second commercial broadcaster, Channel 10, got a temporary reprieve from bankruptcy proceedings when a Tel Aviv District Court accepted a plan presented by the controlling […]

Boosted by a strong prime-time network lineup and the Winter Olympics, NBC's owned-and-operated flagship WNBC in New York held on to its position as the country's top-billing TV station in [...]

Tribune Co. reversed last year's loss with first-quarter earnings that benefited from increased revenue from its 26 television stations. Chicago-based Tribune, also a publisher and entertainment firm, said it earned […]

KICU-DT San Jose, Calif., raised a few eyebrows at the FCC last week by reporting that it took in $90,000 over 12 months for its digital-data-transmission service. That kind of [...]

PRAGUE -- Central European TV stations group CME announced operating profits of $16.3 million for the third quarter of the year. Speaking with shareholders, prexy-CEO Fred Klinkhammer said the results [...]

Belo Corp. reported a sharp increase in third-quarter earnings Wednesday, reflecting revenue momentum from its 19 television stations. The Dallas-based company said it earned $28 million in the quarter, compared [...]

Another small-market network affiliate has dropped out of the news business. WBKP-TV, an ABC affil serving most of Michigan's upper peninsula, including the city of Marquette, last week said it […]

A weak economy, the high expense of converting to digital TV and the end of network compensation has impacted most TV stations -- but affils in tiny markets have been [...]

When free-TV channel City TV went dark on January 12, 2002, Kenneth Tan, the chief operating officer of Singapore's Media Corporation of Singapore, blamed the economic climate for the channel's [...]