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TVNewsCheck - Power Failure Knocks Out Nielsen
TVNewsCheck | 5 days 16 hours 49 minutes ago
Nielsen announced to its clients this morning that the Nielsen data center in Oldsmar, Fla. was hit with a power outage this morning.

TVNewsCheck - Comcast To Offer Cable Shows Online
TVNewsCheck | 33 days 10 hours 16 minutes ago
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — You'll be able to watch popular cable television series such as HBO's "Entourage" and AMC's "Mad Men" on your computer by the end of the year without paying extra - as long as you're a Comcast Corp. subscriber watching at home.

List of top 15 cable shows in Nielsen ratings
Boston Globe, The | 32 days 16 hours 55 minutes ago
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Oct. 12-18. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses: 1. NFL Football: N.Y. Jets vs. Miami (Monday, 8:30 p.m.), ESPN, 9.65 million homes, 13.13 million viewers.

TVNewsCheck - Corning 3Q Profit Off, But TV Glass Demand Grows
TVNewsCheck | 27 days 16 hours 16 minutes ago
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Corning Inc. said Monday that demand is rebounding for its flat-screen television glass but the specialty glass maker's third-quarter profit fell 16 percent from a year ago as overall sales slipped.

TVNewsCheck - Dow Slips 14, Nasdaq Finishes Down 11
TVNewsCheck | 2 days 13 hours 32 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market ended a down week with light selling as investors grew uneasy about a rising dollar and spiking demand for the safest government debt.

TVNewsCheck - Country Music Awards Hit Chord For ABC
TVNewsCheck | 3 days 23 hours 56 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) - Country music helped ABC to its best ratings week in more than a year.

TVNewsCheck - Dow Ends Down 11, Nasdaq Also Drops 11
TVNewsCheck | 4 days 13 hours 29 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks drifted lower Wednesday after an unexpected drop in home construction and disappointing forecasts from technology companies added to worries about the economic recovery.

TVNewsCheck - Smith Goes To Work On Genachowski
TVNewsCheck | 23 days 23 hours 42 minutes ago
Newly installed NAB President Gordon Smith met with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski for the first time on Wednesday, making broadcasters' case for relaxation of the local broadcast ownership rules.

TVNewsCheck - NBC's Brian Williams Gets ASU's Cronkite Award
TVNewsCheck | 3 days 23 hours 45 minutes ago
PHOENIX (AP) — NBC newsman Brian Williams received the first Walter Cronkite Award for his work in journalism Wednesday since the veteran anchorman's death this summer.

TVNewsCheck - AOL Offers Buyouts To 2,500, 1/3 Of Its Work Force
TVNewsCheck | 3 days 14 hours 55 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — AOL LLC, an Internet company struggling to adapt to an advertising-driven economy, is looking to shed more than a third of its work force as it prepares to spin off from Time Warner Inc. next month.

TVNewsCheck - MNT's Latest Incarnation May Be A Winner
TVNewsCheck | 4 days 22 hours 32 minutes ago
Three of the major broadcast networks would like to be doing as well. CBS is down 1 percent, to a 3.2 rating. ABC is down 8 percent, to a 3, and NBC is down 10 percent, to a 2.7, according to Nielsen.

TVNewsCheck - Sinclair Counters Cash-For-Spectrum Plan
TVNewsCheck | 3 days 18 hours 27 minutes ago
The FCC cash-for-spectrum proposal has stirred up broadcasters as little else has over the past several years. It has also brought them together in opposition to the proposal, despite its promise that stations would share in the proceeds from the auctioning of the spectrum to wireless operators.

TVNewsCheck - Media General's Move: Market Over Media
TVNewsCheck | 5 days 10 hours 22 minutes ago
Last July, Media General cast off its image as a staid, old-line newspaper publisher and broadcaster by radically reorganizing itself.

TVNewsCheck - Oprah To End Her Talk Show In 2011
TVNewsCheck | 3 days 10 hours ago
CHICAGO (AP) — "The Oprah Winfrey Show," an iconic broadcast that began as a local Chicago talk show and grew over two decades into the foundation of a media empire worth billions, will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air, Winfrey's production company said Thursday night.