Examples of the trend include “CSI: Cyber,” “Madam Secretary” and “Scorpion” on CBS; “Allegiance,” “Odyssey” and “State of Affairs” on NBC; and a potential series on TNT, “President X.”
Ms. Walters has been the queen of the TV celebrity “get.” But stars and politicians no longer need the networks to reach their public.
The network announced a fall schedule with shows about singing knights, a modern-day Eliza Doolittle and a medical examiner who appears immortal.
The networks will spotlight their strengths and cast their weaknesses in the most favorable light this week in their pitches to potential advertisers at the annual upfront presentations.
Mr. Kimmel, the late-night host on ABC, is in his 11th season on the network.
Television broadcasters are challenging Aereo, an Internet start-up that uses arrays of small antennas to stream over-the-air signals to subscribers.
The case has a little bit of everything, including the first big test at the Supreme Court of who owns and has rights to things stored in the cloud.
NBC has been the leader, but in the last two weeks ABC has managed to draw more viewers among the audience that advertisers favor.
The ABC News star will end her career on May 16, with a two-hour special on prime time.
Josh Elliott, the former “Good Morning America” anchor hired Wednesday by NBC Sports, is a reasonable candidate to replace Bob Costas as the prime-time Olympic host when he decides to step aside.
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Josh Elliott ends a three-year run as the ABC program’s news anchor during which the show defeated its NBC-owned rival, “Today,” amid fierce competition.
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Ben Sherwood, who will head the ABC Television Group, has drawn attention for his work at the news operation, notably the rise of “Good Morning America.”
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Spillover from ABC’s Oscar coverage led the show to its biggest weekly audience average since Nielsen began keeping electronic ratings records.
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The case has significant implications for a TV industry undergoing profound changes, as well as challenges from upstart competitors like Netflix and Amazon.
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NBC’s morning show last week managed to best the recent ratings leader on ABC — 6.221 million viewers, compared with 6.010 million.
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Chet Kanojia’s company, Aereo, has figured out how to grab over-the-air television signals and stream them to subscribers on the Internet. It is an invention that could topple TV titans.
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Juan Pablo Galavis, the current star of ABC’s long-running reality show, told a journalist he opposed putting a gay man at the center of the program.
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The league is interested in selling the rights to several of the Thursday night games that are now shown on NFL Network.
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Katie Couric’s syndicated talk show, which began with enormous fanfare in September 2012, will cease production at the end of the current season.
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Commercials featuring cast members of shows were common when advertisers and agencies owned the programs they sponsored, but the concept is now enjoying something of a comeback.
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