Monday, May. 22, 2023

For decades, the week in May when television executives revealed what new shows were coming and which old ones were going spoke to the power and influence that ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox had over popular culture.

This past week offered more evidence of how that is diminishing, draped in...

Monday, May. 15, 2023

The impact of the Hollywood writers strike was felt as major television networks began their annual week of sales presentations to advertisers on Monday, with news personalities like Willie Geist and Stephanie Ruhle left to hawk comedies and dramas for NBC Universal.

Fox declined to...

Monday, May. 16, 2022

Something was missing Monday when Fox announced its plans for the fall television season — a schedule.

Fox Entertainment CEO Charles Collier said that the network was trying a "new approach" and giving equal weight to its Tubi streaming service by not outlining where its shows will air in...

Thursday, May. 20, 2021

Everything old is new again on network television, and without apology.

As the TV industry rushes into the future with streaming services, traditional broadcasters unveiled 2021-22 schedules that rely heavily on familiar series brands and reboots of decades-old shows.

There's even...

Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2021

The $113 billion deal to telecast NFL games through 2033 is head-swimmingly large — until you consider that the very survival of broadcast networks as we know them may depend upon it.

The deal announced by the NFL and media companies last Thursday spreads professional football content...

Wednesday, May. 27, 2020

The winner, and still champion, is CBS.

The Tiffany network finished the traditional television season, which ended last week, as the most-watched broadcaster for the 12th consecutive year, the Nielsen company said.

CBS has won 17 of the last 18 years, the lone exception coming...

Monday, May. 11, 2020

“The Masked Singer,” an artificial-intelligence thriller and a primetime soap opera starring Kim Cattrall will be part of Fox’s fall lineup, the network said Monday as it unveiled its schedule amid the pandemic’s disruption of the TV industry.

Cattrall’s “Filthy Rich,” about a Southern...

Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019

Fueled by both college and pro football, Fox won a rare title as champ of the broadcast week among networks. 

Fox's Thursday night NFL airing of the Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bears was the week's top show of any kind with 18.23 million viewers, and its broadcast of the Big 10 title game...

Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019

Two weeks into the season, two different winners have been crowned in a tight battle for primetime supremacy among the television networks.

Fox took first place last week in the Nielsen company’s rankings, buoyed by its Thursday night NFL game between the L.A. Rams and Seattle. Late-...

Wednesday, Jul. 31, 2019

The country's biggest TV networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox — have sued Locast, a streaming service that transmits their broadcasts for free, in federal court in New York.

The companies said in the suit, filed Wednesday, that Locast is violating their copyrights and asked for its service to...

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