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President Barack Obama will address the nation Wednesday (8 pm/ET, all major networks, except Fox), with a speech focused on his first 100 days in the White House.In addition to covering the press conference, some networks are devoting special attention to the milestone. CNN will broadcast The CNN National

The Virginia couple that crashed President Barack Obama's state dinner are shopping their story to networks for hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to The Associated Press.Representatives for Michaele and Tareq Salahi have been urging networks ...

The channels of Turner Networks (disclosure: a division of Time Warner, which owns TIME) have been making the case loudly that advertisers should consider large cable networks (like them) equal to broadcast networks (like NBC) that have been getting smaller and smaller. TNT's The Closer, for instance,

TV News: Top 35 cable networks are up 7% in viewers -- The top 35 ad-supported cable networks are up 7% in total viewers this season, according to a report released Wednesday by Turner Networks' research department.

With the networks poised to begin unveiling their plans for the 2009-10 TV season, we thought it time to begin keeping tabs on exactly which shows have earned a pick-up, which have already gotten the hook, and which are still in a state of limbo. We're focusing on the major broadcast networks, to keep

Today, of course, news organizations like this one are in overkill mode dissecting President Obama's first 100 days in office. The broadcast and news networks will all be covering tonight's Presidential press conference (except Fox network, which will mark Tim Roth's first 100 days in Lie to Me). While

Like a much-hyped drama debut shedding viewers to find its level, President Obama's press conferences are drawing fewer viewers each time out. The President's Wednesday night outing drew 28.8 million viewers on all networks covering, down 29% from his March conference and down from 49.5 million for his

Exec Shuffle: Exec named exec VP of Emerging Networks -- Discovery Communications has promoted Deborah Adler Myers to a newly created position as Science Channel general manager and exec VP of Discovery Emerging Networks.

TV News: 'Idol's' absence boosts other nets -- President Obama's hourlong press conference Tuesday night averaged 40.35 million viewers on nine broadcast and cable networks, according to Nielsen estimates.

President Barack Obama will hold a press conference Wednesday night, the White House announced on Twitter. Among the Big 4 TV networks, ABC, CBS and NBC will all carry the press conference live at 8/7 CT, while Fox is sticking with a regularly scheduled broadcast of So You Think You Can Dance and directing

TV Networks covering the Iranian protests are smuggling news out of the country with cell phones, amateur video, and social networks — the same tools used by protestors still packing the country's streets."If this happened 10 years ago you wouldn't have the video phones, or even five years ago

Sons of Anarchy isn't taking its hand off the throttle.The FX biker drama has been averaging around 4 million viewers all season, but Tuesday's episode — which pulled in 3.7 million viewers to handily win the night among cable channels — was competitive with the major networks in the adults

In times past, journalists have complained that Presidents have been too unavailable to take questions from the press. This year, TV broadcast networks have had the opposite complaint—that President Obama's prime-time addresses have too frequently cut into valuable airtime, costing millions in unrecoverable

TV News: Government can threaten networks with fines -- The Supreme Court ruled that the FCC could punish broadcast networks even when a single curse word was uttered on live television.