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.

• Fox Plays Up ‘Idol’ Emotion
  Fox is thinking small in its efforts to promote the biggest show on television. It’s not that the network is scaling back the breadth of... More »
• Newsman Koppel Takes Stock
  Ted Koppel sounded like a young boy who’s just been told that the rest of the school year will consist only of snow days. In... More »
• Ratings Declines Define Nov. Sweeps
  This year’s November sweeps ratings period, buffeted by economic upheaval and declining statistical relevance to networks, saw ABC and CBS on top in adults 18-49... More »
• Panic, Pause, Invest: VCs Bet on Web Video
  Memo from venture capitalists to online video entrepreneurs: Contrary to early indications, the spigot has not been turned off for 2009. Despite the credit crisis... More »
• Obama Focusing on DTV Transition
  As President-elect Barack Obama juggles a cratering economy and two wars, broadcasting and consumer groups are throwing him another sticky issue—the impending switch to digital... More »
• Ads to Women Key in Crisis
  NBC Universal is touting new research that shows marketers should maintain their advertising to women because they control the bulk of household spending and are... More »
• A Sports Menu for Digital Channels
  Among the programming options being developed for television stations with subchannel space to fill due to the digital transition is one geared specifically to NBC... More »
• Viewers Discovering THIS TV
  MGM’s THIS TV, a programming package that can run on subchannels that broadcasters will gain after the digital conversion in February, is slowly making ratings... More »
• Women Aren’t Afraid of ‘Ghost’
  As it hunts for ghosts, NBC Universal’s Sci Fi Channel is scaring up larger numbers of female viewers. “Ghost Hunters,” now in its fourth year... More »
• The Insider: A High- to Low-Brow Night
  The evening started with a mad post-work dash to the International Press Freedom Awards dinner, the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 18th annual benefit. The event... More »
• Strike Could Hit Actors Hardest
  Screen Actors Guild President Alan Rosenberg says he’s going to his union members seeking a strike authorization vote in December, but he may want to... More »
• Ad Frequency Irks Viewers
  Think how many times in the last few weeks you’ve been subjected to a modern Christie Brinkley reinserted into footage from the 1983 film “National... More »
• Column: Give Broadband a Sporting Chance
  On any given Sunday, millions of Americans sink into their couches and watch football on their gigantic plasma-screen high-definition television sets from morning until night.... More »
• Directories Lead the Way for Early Adopters
  What’s the next big thing in online video? Niche video sites that offer editorial guidance on what to watch. The same online early adopters who... More »
• Sell-Off Speculation Swirls Around CBS
  Pity poor CBS Corp. Investors are speculating that embattled executive chairman and controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone may be forced to sell the broadcast giant to... More »
• Stations’ Car Trouble
  In the past decade, New York’s TV stations have survived lousy network programming, a vanishing prime-time audience, media fragmentation, the economic fallout of Sept. 11... More »
• The TV Ad of the Future Begins Now
  It makes me smile when I read about how the era of the 30-second TV commercial is ending. I have been in the television industry... More »
• Editorial: A Bad Time to Choose: Why SAG Should Delay
  Once again, the gun is loaded, cocked and pointed straight at the television industry’s head. Will its leaders once again pull the trigger? Will a... More »
• Diverse Voices: Multicultural Casting Thrives in Sci-Fi Shows
  When it comes to stories about the strange and unusual, nothing beats science fiction. Whether it’s exploring the mystery of life on other planets, in... More »
• TV Plays Music in New Ways
  Since the beginning of TV, music programming has been an integral part of the success of the medium, from “Your Hit Parade” to “American Bandstand,”... More »
• BET Looks Ahead
  BET is one of the top television networks when it comes to music programming, reaching more than 84 million homes in the United States, Canada... More »
• A Rich Musical Tapestry on TV
  A random sampling of upcoming programming proves music lovers have a lot of choice on TV. CBS is expanding on its Feb. 8 Grammy Awards... More »
• Searching for TV’s News Elite
  Drawing up an unassailable list of the next generation of television news stars is a near-impossible and inherently suspect task, if only because the prescribed... More »
• Joel Brown, CBS Newspath Correspondent
  Background: Mr. Brown got his professional start early. TV News Talent Searching for TV’s News Elite . . . More » Joel Brown . .... More »
• Seth Doane, CBS News Correspondent
  Background: After a year as field producer for Fox flagship station WNYW-TV’s special projects unit, Mr. Doane was hired in 2001 as an anchor and... More »