KBOI Channel 2 Avoids Its Own 'Fiscal Cliff,' Reaches Deal With Cable One
As the nation approaches a looming end-of-the-year financial deal, aptly titled the "fiscal cliff," Treasure Valley television viewers faced a programming cliff as broadcasters and Boise's CBS...
View ArticleThunderbirds, UFO Creator Dies In Britain
Who knows why Thunderbirds was such a worldwide phenomenon?It's puppetry was old-school. The dialogue was laughable. Yet, Thunderbirds was a cult-status sci-fi series that was a pretty big hit in the...
View ArticleVideo: Montana TV Station Hacked With Zombie Warning
Hackers are notorious for breaking into websites and bank accounts, but the Great Falls Tribune reports that hackers broke into a Great Falls, Mont., TV station Feb. 1 and warned of a zombie attack....
View ArticleStudy: Altering TV Viewing Habits Can Improve Kids' Behavior
Want to improve your child's behavior? You can start by grabbing the television remote. In a study published this morning in the journal Pediatrics, researchers said limiting exposure to violence-laden...
View ArticlePhilo Farnsworth, Idaho Inventor of TV, Inducted Into Hall of Fame
Tomorrow night in Hollywood, the late Philo Farnsworth—a native of the eastern Idaho town of Rigby—will be inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame. Next to the Emmy...
View ArticleSinclair Broadcast Group To Take Over Boise CBS, CW TV Stations
In a deal announced this morning, Sinclair Broadcast Group has agreed to acquire Fisher Communications—the parent company of KBOI-TV, the CBS affiliate in Boise and Boise CW affiliate KYUU-TV. The deal...
View ArticleNetflix Shares Soar In Wake of House of Cards Success
What's America's fastest growing television network? Netflix. But of course, Netflix technically isn't a network. On the heels of its highly successful launch of its streaming-only series House of...
View ArticleCNN, Turner Classic Movies Disappear From Local Cable Line-Up
UPDATECable ONE announced earlier Tuesday morning that it had hoped to retain TNT, TBS and the Cartoon Network on its schedule, but by late afternoon, the cable provider said that three networks would...
View ArticleVideo: Jon Stewart Dumbstruck By Malala Yousafzai
The Nobel Prize Committee has been busy this week, doling out honors in medicine, physics, chemistry and, just this morning, in literature when Alice Munro became the first Canadian to win the Nobel...
View ArticleCableOne, Turner Kiss and Make-Up: CNN, TCM, Cartoons Back on the Air
To borrow (and alter) a phrase from Gerald Ford: "Our long, television nightmare is over."Maybe it's not as bad as Watergate, but by the sounds of things, some CableOne subscribers were pretty ticked...
View ArticleSupreme Court Will Consider Landmark Case of Free TV Streaming
In what's expected to be a landmark ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up a case of a start-up Internet company and major broadcasting networks which claim their very survival hangs in...
View ArticleDVR Overload: Tonight's Network TV Logjam
Television DVRs were invented for nights such as this. In fact, there may be too many choices on network and cable networks this evening ... so good luck. Begin with the fact that CBS is broadcasting...
View ArticleKBOI General Manager to Staff After BW Story: 'Don't Get Distracted'
Someone's ears were apparently burning over at Channel 2. On March 5, Boise Weekly reported that KBOI-TV pulled a pair of controversial news promos that openly advocated for small government while...
View ArticleCable One, Viacom Feud Could Result in Disappearance of Comedy Central,...
Five months after a stand-off between Cable One and the Turner Broadcasting System, resulting in the disappearance of Turner's CNN, CNN Headline News, Cartoon Network, TBS, TNT and Turner Classic...
View ArticleTVCTV Losing Channel 98
Time has run out for Treasure Valley Community Television's Channel 98. The City of Boise has given Cable One permission to reclaim the channel which has been home to TCTV programming, primarily...
View ArticleFacing Possible Blackout of Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Cable One Says...
With only a few days to go before John Stewart, Stephen Colbert and SpongeBob might disappear from tens of thousands of Treasure Valley TV screens, Cable One says it continues to negotiate with Viacom...
View ArticleViacom Pushes Back Against Cable One In Stalled Negotiations
Viacom, the uber-broadcaster which includes BET, CMT, Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon among its 15 broadcast networks, is pushing back against Cable One as the two parties come down to the final...
View ArticleCable One Says It's Ready to Add BBC, Sundance, if Viacom Pulls Plug on...
Facing a midnight deadline when the current contract between Cable One and Viacom expires, Cable One is already dangling out a number of other channels that it may add to its lineup if Viacom pulls the...
View ArticleCable One Removes Viacom Channels in Contract Standoff
As threatened, Cable One announced late Monday night that it was being forced to remove a string of networks, owned by Viacom, after failing to come to an agreement with the broadcaster. Cable One...
View ArticleNetflix Will Raise New Customer Subscription Rates
Netflix is flexing more of its muscle, exploiting its ever-growing subscriber base by saying it will increase subscription prices for new customers by one or two dollars a month in the coming months....
View ArticleIdaho Woman Raising Money for 'Survivor' Runner-Up
An Idaho woman is trying the even the score—quite literally—for a runner-up in the most recent season of Survivor, the popular CBS-TV reality program. Yung "Woo" Hwang of Newport Beach, Calif., a...
View ArticleDispute Could Result in NBC Networks Disappearing From Cable One
After spending months in a feud with Viacom, which ended with Cable One pulling Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon from its lineup this past April in Boise and other markets across the U.S., Cable One is...
View ArticleVideo of Final "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for David Letterman
A nearly 30-year holiday tradition has been tucked away in the vault. David Letterman will say goodbye to the Late Show on May 20, 2015, but this past Thursday night he bid a Christmas farewell to a...
View ArticleNBC Contract With Cable One Runs Out at Midnight Tonight
NBC's broadcast plans for tonight's New Year's Eve festivities include a live broadcast from Times Square, hosted by Carson Daly. But NBC executives are also keeping a close eye on what Cable One...
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Cable One, NBC Agree to Last-Minute Extension to Keep Networks in Lineup
Some people just work better under pressure. Facing a midnight deadline, NBC and Cable One hammered out a New Year's Eve extension, just a few hours before their current agreement was about to lapse....
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