This Week's Edition

TelevisionWeek is published every Monday, either in print or online. Started in 1982 as Electronic Media, the weekly newspaper covers the TV industry. Below are all the stories that appear exclusively in the weekly edition, either online or in print.

• Ad Sales Tagging Up in All-Star Game
  With a salute to the final season of play at Yankee Stadium anchoring this year’s Major League Baseball All-Star Weekend, broadcasters are all but sold... More »
• TV Geeks Out at Comic-Con
  The TV industry’s takeover of Comic-Con could reach a critical mass next month. Over the last decade, television has crept more and more into the... More »
• HD the New Route to Carriage
  A new cable network about fishing found the right lure to get national carriage: content in high definition. The Toronto-based World Fishing Network was one... More »
• Cable Nets, Web Presence Bolstered by Scripps Split
  With this week’s splitting up of E.W. Scripps, HGTV, Food Network and Scripps’ other cable properties will be free of their old-media cousins. “I think... More »
• The Insider: 'NewsHour's' Lehrer A(orta)-OK
  Eight weeks after undergoing aortic valve replacement surgery, Jim Lehrer was back at the anchor desk of public broadcasting’s “The NewsHour” June 26. The Insider... More »
• ‘Access’ Shares Content With Station Sites
  “Access Hollywood” is spreading the wealth, in a manner of speaking. Affiliates around the country are adapting the long-running newsmagazine show’s three-tiered syndicated approach to... More »
• Online Video Competitors Still Playing Nice, But For How Long?
  Blip.tv is lining up additional distribution partners for the episodic content it carries, a move that could turn the Web video service into a more... More »
• Florida Moves to Tax Advertising
  Florida is reviving its two-decade-old movement to implement service taxes, and broadcasters and media groups who fear the worst—a major new tax on advertising revenues—are... More »
• Universal Sports Adds Outlets in New York, L.A.
  Universal Sports, the newly formed channel that is a joint venture between NBC Sports and InterMedia Partners, has landed key deals with outlets in Los... More »
• Possibility of Actors Strike Casts a Giant Shadow
  Hollywood is once again holding its breath. With the 100-day writers walkout still fresh in the town’s collective memory, TV networks and studios are trying... More »
• Discovery’s Ford: Network to Double Production
  Even if testosterone TV—shows like “Deadliest Catch” that feature manly men doing dangerous jobs—goes limp, Discovery Channel president John Ford says his network will... More »
• Nielsen to Track Link Between Viewing and Spending
  The Nielsen Co. is showing off a new measurement service that links viewing of a particular show or network to consumer spending on particular products... More »
• ‘GMA’s’ Murphy Pauses to Relish an Emmy Win
  ABC’s “Good Morning America” may run second to NBC’s “Today” in the ratings but the ABC morning show is two for two in the first... More »
• Program Partners to Launch Fall Syndie Package
  National syndicator Program Partners is set to launch a package of programming this fall featuring two new series for local stations, makeover show “Style by... More »
• Focus Put on Efficiency at Promax
  An increasingly fragmented marketplace increases the demand for effective TV marketing with every passing year, but most network marketing budgets are failing to rise in... More »
• Sternberg Forms Documentary Division
  Scott Sternberg, whose company produces reality shows such as “Shootout” on AMC and “The Academy” on Fox Reality Channel, loves documentaries. Now with a half-dozen... More »
• Smaller Cable Nets Suffering in Upfront
  With the upfront rolling ahead at full speed in most quarters, sales executives at some second-tier cable networks are sweating over the kind of price... More »
• Tip Sheet: New-Media Numbers
  Numbers and studies proliferate daily in the new-media business. Researchers release data at a rapid speed and the sheer amount of numbers can make the... More »
• Sony Pictures Television Re-ups Weiser
  John Weiser has been re-upped for four more years as president of distribution for Sony Pictures Television. Mr. Weiser will oversee domestic sales operations for... More »
• The Insider: An Inconvenient Awards Truth
  Not all award winners are created equal. Some give acceptance speeches that imprint themselves on the brain and the heart, that evoke a reaction, that... More »
• Entertainment Studios Entering Online Syndication
  Television producer and syndicator Entertainment Studios plans to give away its content on the Web starting this week, as the studio takes a big step... More »
• Slow Summer Start for Broadcast Nets
  Network TV’s post-strike malaise has turned into an early-summer slump. Hoping to shake off the Nielsen blues caused by the 100-day Writers Guild of America... More »
• Chart: Discovery by the Numbers
  Discovery By the Numbers Financials for year ending Dec 2008     Net Ad Revenue $437.0 +12.2% Net Total Revenue $764.3 +9.4% Programming Expenses... More »
• Checking Out The CW
  While The CW has cut back on programming and is being pestered by bloggers saying that entertainment President Dawn Ostroff may bolt for the Oxygen... More »
• Unsinkable Upfront Defies the Prophets
  A writers strike couldn’t kill it. Nor could a shaky economy, a shortage of pilots, lower ratings, higher prices and fewer gigantic shrimp. The upfront,... More »