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Earlier this month the FCC said it will propose new rules governing negotiations between television broadcasters and cable providers for the carriage of their channels. The FCC is looking to prevent circumstances that outcome of broadcast channels being pulled from cable providers which, in turn,...

Benefiting from a 50-minute NFL overrun on Sunday evening, Fox (NASDAQ: NWS) launched into first place in Week 8 with a 2.8 rating, up from 2.2 the prior week, Goldman Sachs reports. The NFL overrun posted a 6.3 rating, making it the #2 show of the week. Glee delivered a 4.6 rating, matching its...

The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP) has entered into an agreement with the ABC television network to extend the affiliation of six Scripps stations with ABC through Jan. 31, 2015. The new agreement includes a license fee paid by Scripps to ABC for the network's programming. Since the expiration of...

Deutsche Bank has published a research report for its Entertainment Spotlight segment, focusing on CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS) and the Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS). The report included results from week 1 of the "ratings race" from which it concluded that "overall, CBS appears stable, impressive...

Needham analyst Laura Martin reiterated Needham's Buy rating for CBS Corp (NYSE: CBS) and recommended that investors buy shares of CBS Corp before the broadcaster's earnings report today at 4:30pm. Martin said, "We recommend investors buy CBS going into earnings because we believe consensus...