Hasta La Creative!

When the cable news channel begins broadcasting on Tuesday, “there will be less opinion, less yelling and fewer celebrity sightings,” its chief says.

Despite Time Warner’s blocking of CBS in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, the network beat its rivals in total viewers and in important ratings categories.

Eli Manning’s rapping ability in a DirectTV video that went viral was the topic of conversation at Giants training camp.

Both sides in the standoff over programming fees for CBS content on Time Warner Cable claim to be defending the consumer. It doesn’t wash.

Recent earnings reports from the television distributors have contributed to the growing speculation among industry analysts about the declining number of cable subscribers.

A high-stakes battle between the cable company and CBS over fees caused the network’s programming to be blacked out in some cities for a half-hour.

Netflix has given a good shaking to the settled world of television: it has provided its own series, streamed them over the Internet and made them available all at once everywhere.

The network and cable company announced late Wednesday that they had agreed to an extension of their current contract, as they continue to wrangle over fees for CBS programs.

In an ad campaign, the network is trying to enlist the help of cable subscribers to push a fee deal through for stations in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas.

The company has begun talks with major media companies about licensing TV channels, according to people with knowledge of the meetings.