An NBC executive is said to have asked Anderson Cooper if he would consider taking Matt Lauer’s job as co-host on the “Today” show, which has slumped in the ratings.
All of the network’s top shows all were renewed, including the dramas, “NCIS,” ‘NCIS LA,” “Elementary,” “Person of Interest,” “Hawaii Five-0” and “Blue Bloods.”
Tim McCarver, 71, Fox’s No. 1 analyst since 1996, said on Wednesday that this baseball season, his 34th, would be his last.
The company said Tuesday that it had completed a deal to buy a half interest in TVGN, formerly the TV Guide Network.
Jay Leno is still the ratings king of late-night television, but his expected replacement, Jimmy Fallon, has Internet skills and cross-generational appeal.
An always-fractious changing of the guard on the late-night show will this time be accompanied by a change of scenery.
Aereo, a start-up backed by Barry Diller that captures broadcast signals to be streamed online, is sowing chaos in the cable television business.
An advertising group’s decision to combine conferences is still striving to appeal to all of the attendees, who come from media agencies and the management and creative realms.
Cable shows continue to dominate over most network offerings on Sunday nights, and Fox overtakes a flagging NBC for the season.
Turner Sports, CBS’s partner in carrying the N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament, could carry the Final Four and national championship game in 2014, instead of 2016 as originally envisioned.
The new Fox Sports 1 cable channel will present the basketball games of the seven Catholic universities taking over the Big East name, including Georgetown, St. John’s, Seton Hall and Providence.
The leader of the Paley Center for Media says that “an industry undergoing major change is the perfect place for me.”
With the spinoff of Time Inc., Time Warner has become an example of the media industry’s shift away from rapid acquisition and growth.
Content Partners has agreed to buy half of the franchise from a unit of Goldman Sachs in a deal that makes it a co-owner with CBS.
Fox’s chief executive, Rupert Murdoch, hopes to challenge ESPN for some of the lucrative revenue that the sports media giant has had largely to itself for more than three decades.
More television shows are being produced only for the Internet, circumventing existing distribution channels.
Conservatives have long considered Bob Woodward a scourge for helping to break the Watergate scandal, but this week many lauded his account of a dispute with the White House over his fiscal coverage.
Dish accused CBS of pressuring one of its stars, Kaley Cuoco of “The Big Bang Theory,” to take down a Twitter message that praised Dish’s device, called the Hopper.
For the first time since 1998, CBS will finish first during the official February sweep rating period in the most important category for advertising sales, viewers between 18 and 49.
“American Idol” is now encouraging viewers to tweet as a way to make live viewing more attractive.
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