baltimoresun.com - TV & Media

Is Leno Effect a long-term loss of viewers?

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:54:00 -0500

NBC affiliates keeping hopes up -- and, maybe, fingers crossed

The November sweeps ratings period is one of the first major milestones of the TV season. If you are an NBC affiliate manager such as Jordan Wertlieb at WBAL-TV in Baltimore, you are more interested in talking about December when the other networks will mostly be in reruns. The reason for that: Right now, your late local news is getting thrashed in the ratings like never before thanks to Jay Leno's failure to attract a large lead-in audience at 10 against first-run competition.

Rihanna, Brown and Oprah

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:43:00 -0500

Z on TV: Assault as a TV topic

Suicide prevention groups protest 'The Office'

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:46:00 -0500

Some suicide prevention groups aren't laughing over a scene in "The Office" in which Steve Carell's character tries to scare young children by struggling in a hangman's noose.

Voltaggio brothers causing a stir in Frederick

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 11:58:00 -0500

The high school culinary arts teacher who taught Bryan Voltaggio how to put together a good bearnaise watched him "deconstruct" the sauce on national TV.

Kim Zolciak sings...sort of

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:18:00 -0500

Sawyer scores sweeps coup: Rihanna 'breaks silence'

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 08:51:00 -0500

'Top Chef' reunion: Fabio's no Padma

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:34:00 -0500

Group urges CW stations not to air 'Gossip Girl'

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 08:48:00 -0500

On-air promos for a sexual threesome on an upcoming episode of "Gossip Girl" have spurred the Parents Television Council to ask affiliates of the CW network to pre-empt the show.

'Big Brother 9' winner formally charged over drugs

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 08:42:00 -0500

The winner of the CBS reality TV show "Big Brother 9" has been formally indicted in federal court for illegal possession of oxycodone pills with intent to distribute.

Sesame Street's 40th anniversary

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:50:52 -0500