Topic: FOX Broadcasting Company
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Mark Burnett is back in the game-show business, two months after one of his projects was scuttled by Fox amid allegations that it might have been rigged. The man behind "Survivor" and "The Apprentice" has received a pilot order from ABC for "Trust Me, I'm a Game Show Host." In a format twist, the show ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A coalition of cable and satellite companies will this week call on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to create a new process to resolve increasingly bitter disputes over carriage fees paid to broadcasters. The group, which includes rival TV distributors such as Time Warner Cable Inc <TWC.N>, DirecTV Group <DTV.O> ...
While special events are doing very well for broadcasters — capped off by an Oscars telecast that was the most-watched entertainment program in five years — their day-to-day schedules are hurting. The Nielsen Co. said Tuesday that 41.7 million people watched the Academy Awards on ABC on Sunday ...
