PBS Struggles, Pressed by Right and Competitors
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PBS is suffering from an identity crisis, and it goes deeper than the announcement by Pat Mitchell that she would step down as the network's president.
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A growing number of advocacy groups are blurring the distinction between legitimate media and propaganda to promote their causes.
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The race for ratings among the four top U.S. television networks has turned into a tooth and claw battle, with NBC at risk of losing the top spot as ABC makes a surprise comeback, according to media experts.
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Journalism fellowship programs are feeling the fallout of the media industryâs turmoil.
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Sometimes a TV series needs a tune-up. Tweak the plots, juice the promotion and it may end up a challenger in the ratings race.
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ABC television, backed by Republican Sen. John McCain and other leading conservatives, sought on Thursday to keep nervous affiliate stations from deserting a Veterans
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There are changes afoot as PBS' "Now" begins its new season.
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ABC suits scrambled Wednesday to try to contain the mutiny among stations that refuse to air Thursday nightâs broadcast of the unedited âSaving Private Ryan,â citing indecency concerns.
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Howard Barkerâs 1981 political drama about a dissident cartoonist provides more questions than answers about the challenges facing truly free speech.
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A gift of free air time to GOP candidates from a Fresno-area broadcaster drew challenges on several fronts Thursday, as Democrats tried to stop the ads from running in key areas before Tuesday's election.
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Since the invention of the remote control, political campaigns have had a tough time persuading viewers to sit and watch their television ads rather than switching to another channel.
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By DAVID BAUDER  NEW YORK - ABC faced growing pressure Friday about its planned miniseries on the buildup to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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With "American Idol" and Jay Leno back on the air in January, it may seem that all is right with television. But the industry is facing its worst labor crisis in two decades, a crippling writers strike that's reshaping the business of TV and threatening to permanently shift the viewing habits of millions of Americans.
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Despite major deals, satellite radio still faces an uphill battle against entrenched broadcast giants.
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The BBC is about to come under renewed pressure to sell off more of its commercial assets, despite proposals to reshape the corporation unveiled by Mark Thompson, its director general, this week.
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Institute for Policy Innovation's Bartlett Cleland says FCC has it partly right and partly wrong when it comes to fostering video competition.
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They are running for the hills but the end of the trail is Little Big Horn, where Custer made his last stand, and lost his life. Of course the Indians didn't do too well either. AP: "Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections." Please oh Netflix strategy gods, get a copy of Marketing Warfare and read it. Netflix owns what used to be a great hill, for some it might still be one, the movies-by-mail hill. They obviously feel they need to be in the Internet movie business, and in that they have a huge head start that they aren't using. They are being too damned fair to their competitors.  Give the users the ability to grant other sites access to their movie ratings. Build Netflix into the social network of movies. You're already there, but you need to make every other social network connect up to Netflix. You need to be the hub for movie-watching on the net. You're lucky that so far that's what you are. But soon you will have to fight for that too, and then it will be too late to try to force your competitors to connect to your site. They will have data that you want. Then the nature of the negotiating will change. Right now you have the data. Use that power! Make the users everyone think of Netflix as the place on the Net for Flix.