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2017: How did we do?
Back a year ago, yours truly did a look ahead into 2017. So how did everything turn out? I have the answers right here! 1. The FCC under a Trump administration. With a 3-2 FCC majority, issues the FCC...
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Super Bowl LII ratings couldn’t match last year’s
But 103.4 million viewers isn’t bad Super Bowl LII gave us what we wanted in a football game – a close contest throughout, an exciting finish, and best of all, the Philadelphia Eagles beating the...
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Kelly Clarkson’s new talker signs NBC O&O deal
New daytime show to air on NBC 5 locally; replaces Steve on NBC O&Os In a deal before the fall season begins, NBCUniversal Television Distribution has struck a deal with the NBC-owned stations to...
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DMA Report: Chicago continues to lose ground, but less so
Most top markets lose TV homes as streaming, other alternatives take hold New York, Miami, Orlando only markets in top twenty to post gains while last year’s big winners slipped As a nation, it looks...
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Super Bowl ratings: Super Dud
Viewers tune out Patriots-Rams; lowest ratings in over a decade Thanks to numerous punts and less-than-inspiring play, Super Bowl LIII turned into a Super Dud. In the lowest-scoring game in Super Bowl...
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25 years ago: The deal heard around the world
25 years ago this week, Fox’s Rupert Murdoch changed the TV world by inking a deal to trigger the biggest affiliation switch in history. It goes back to what happened on December 17, 1993. The...
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CBSN to expand to other markets, including Chicago
Local news streaming service to be based out of CBS 2 Chicago is about to get its first local news streaming service. As announced on Thursday, CBS Television Stations and CBS Interactive announced an...
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Replace “Ellen”? Questions abound for Warner Bros., NBC-owned stations
In 2019, “Ellen” announced a three-year renewal for the show thru 2022. Internet’s having fun on who would replace her after several high-profile miscues, but with a contract running through 2022, it...
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Ellen DeGeneres to end daytime talk show run
Announcement gives NBC-owned stations time to develop a replacement in ’22 We now know the fate of Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show as she is officially calling it quits after next season, with the...
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Kelly Clarkson to take over Ellen DeGeneres’ 3 p.m. slots on NBC-owned...
Includes NBC 5 in Chicago Quickly removing any speculation, the NBC-owned stations announced they were slotting sister company NBCUniversal Syndication Services’ Kelly Clarkson Show in the time period...
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