60 Minutes Returning To Wilmington Sunday
“60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley will update viewers on Wilmington unemployment Sunday (7 p.m., Chs 12, 7) for the second time this year. Pelley and “60 Minutes” gave Wilmington’s plight the...
View ArticleCould You Be On Undercover Boss Sunday?
You might… if you stopped last July at the White Castle on Third Street in Covington, or the new one on High Street in Hamilton, when a crew was filming the “Undercover Boss” episode airing this Sunday...
View ArticleHow To Watch NCAA Games Today
16 games on four channels — here’s how to find the NCAA basketball tournament today on CBS (WKRC-TV Channel 12), TNT, TBS and tru TV. FRIDAY 12:45 P.M. UPDATE: I just added the Saturday TV lineup...
View ArticleHow’s Your March Madness?
I’m not asking about your brackets….. I mean your TV remote. Did you wear out the batteries clicking between TNT, TBS, CBS and tru TV? Did you find tru TV? What did you think of the new four-channel...
View ArticleHow To Watch NCAAs this weekend
TV-wise, we’re gone from the First Four to the Top Two networks – CBS and TBS — for the Sweet 16. Starting Saturday, we’re down to the Big One for the rest of the NCAA tournament, with all games on...
View ArticleUpdate On TV Renewals, Goners, New Shows
Goners include The Event and V. Possibly coming back to life are CBS’ Jim Belushi’s The Defenders and #$%& My Dad Says. Here’s the latest TV news about your favorite TV shows from Deadline.com...
View ArticleCBS Fall: Moving Good Wife, CSI
CBS also has five new shows…. but loyal fans of “The Good Wife” and the original “CSI” will want to know that their favorite shows are moving. Julianna Margulies’ “The Good Wife” moves from Tuesday to...
View ArticleNo Zits For CBS
At least no “Zits” sitcom for CBS, based on Jim Borgman’s cartoon with Jerry Scott. Borgman, the former Pulitzer Prize-winning Enquirer political cartoonist, tells me that CBS turned down a TV...
View ArticleNo TV record for Super Bowl XLVII
Nielsen says 108.41 million people watched the Baltimore Ravens 34-31 victory over the San Francisco 49ers Sunday, failing to match the 111 million viewers last year and in 2010. But 108.41 million...
View ArticleCongrats to Collinsworth, a 14th Emmy!
Cris Collinsworth won his 14th Sports Emmy last night — and his fifth consecutive for Outstanding Sports Personality-Sports Event Analyst – for his work on NBC’s top-rated “Sunday Night Football.” The...
View ArticlePlease bring back the July 4th Boston Pops fireworks!
For the first time in more than two decades, the July 4th Boston Pops concert and fireworks didn’t air on national TV because CBS didn’t renew the contract. (I explained it all on my blog Tuesday....
View ArticleTime Warner could lose Showtime here Monday
Friday noon update: Now my Time Warner contact says all customers COULD lose Showtime Monday afternoon — and only Showtime – if CBS doesn’t reach a new retransmission agreement with Time Warner. Sorry...
View ArticleUpdates on CBS-Time Warner, Fox19-Dish talks
The latest this morning on the TV retransmission negotiations: CBS-Time Warner: No deal yet on an agreement which covers Showtime nationwide, and CBS programing in 7 cities. The deadline has been...
View ArticleDish pulls Fox 19 – get used to it!
If you’re a Dish Network customer, and want to watch Fox affiliate WXIX-TV (Channel 19) today, get an antenna… or a new TV provider. And if you’re not a Dish customer, be prepared for it to happen to...
View ArticleTime Warner loses Showtime, TMC, Flix in CBS dispute
Update at 2 p.m. Monday Aug. 5: Nothing new in the Time Warner-CBS/Showtime retransmission compensation dispute. CBS’ Showtime networks and Smithsonian Channel remain blacked out here since Friday on...
View ArticleFox 19 back on Dish Network, no good news on CBS-Showtime-Time Warner
Raycom, WXIX-TV’s owner, reached a new retransmission agreement with Dish Network last night. Fox 19 and about 35 other stations were restored to Dish about 10:30 p.m. last night. Here’s the Variety...
View ArticleCCM grad writing CBS show for Spielberg
CBS has ordered a sci-fi series for next summer called “Extant” written by CCM grad Mickey Fisher (BFA 1995). The Ironton native also will executive produce the drama with Steven Spielberg and others...
View ArticleShowtime back on Time Warner
Time Warner restored Showtime at 6 p.m. today here, after reaching a new retransmission agreement with CBS. Time Warner pulled Showtime and the Smithsonian Channel nationwide a month ago — on Aug. 2 —...
View ArticleEsiason, Wilcots doing Bengals-Bills Sunday
Two Bengals in the booth? When CBS’ studio analysts are sent out to help call games Sunday, Boomer Esiason will join Kevin Harlan and Solomon Wilcots doing the Bengals at Bills 1 p.m. Sunday (Channel...
View Article‘We Are Men’ canceled, Mike and Molly returns
A second one bites the dust…. CBS canceled the awful “We Are Men” Monday night comedy after two episodes, and will return “Mike & Molly” to Mondays for November sweeps. “2 Broke Girls” will move...
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