ABC wins its fifth straight Thursday
Averages a 4.0 in 18-49s, topping reruns on CBS
ABC won its fifth straight Thursday with ease last night, opposite a lineup of mostly reruns on CBS and Fox’s surging baseball. ● More from: Media Life Magazine
ABC tops ratings with ‘Grey’s,’ ‘Private’
Fox, CBS solid with baseball, repeats
Behind the strength of No. 1-rated “Grey’s Anatomy” and spinoff “Private Practice,” ABC took the Thursday night primetime race. Fox, which aired the fifth game of the American League Championship Series, was second, and CBS, despite airing two repeats, came in third. ● More from: Variety
Bill for Glenn Beck Day stuns Mount Vernon
Glenn Beck Day in Mount Vernon was an expensive lesson for this small town, as it found out the cost of hosting a controversial celebrity.
It’s on the hook for $17,748.85, mostly for 239 hours of police overtime. ● More from: Seattle Times Newspaper
Amazon stock surges after blowout 3Q results
Shares of Amazon surged about 25 percent Friday after the Seattle Internet retailer reported a 68 percent increase in its third-quarter profit to $199 million and issued an upbeat outlook. ● More from: Seattle Times Newspaper
Stern Says Vote on Proposed Nets Sale to Happen This Year
The proposed sale of a controlling stake in the Nets to a Russian billionaire will be put to a vote of N.B.A. owners by the end of the year, according to Commissioner David Stern, who spoke positively Thursday about the deal. ● More from: NYTimes.com
Soupy Sales, famed comedian from the Golden Age of Television, dead at 83
Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced, pie-in the-puss comic beloved by the Baby Boomer generation, died Thursday night. He was 83.
No true fan can forget the New Year’s Day 1965 live broadcast on WNEW.
Sales, miffed at having to work the holiday, signed off by encouraging his young viewers to tiptoe into their still-sleeping parents’ bedrooms and remove those “funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents” from their pants and pocketbooks.
“Put them in an envelope and mail them to me,” Sales instructed. “And I’ll send you a postcard from Puerto Rico!”
He was then hit with a pie. ● More from: nydailynews.com
The Nation preps book mocking Palin
Editors from the progressive magazine The Nation are pulling together a book to be released the same day as Sarah Palin’s with a similar title and cover mocking the former Alaska governor’s memoir. ● More from: POLITICO.com
FX’s ‘Anarchy’ is first basic cable series to beat Leno
Forget broadcast, now NBC’s “The Jay Leno Show” is fighting off a challenger from basic cable.
For the first time, NBC’s Leno experiment was beaten in the ratings by a non-sports program that wasn’t airing on the Big Four networks. ● More from: THR
Fortune Magazine to Cut Number of Issues
Capping a tumultuous year for business magazines, Fortune is planning to publish about one-quarter fewer issues annually and make other changes, joining the ranks of publications scrambling to reinvent themselves in the advertising downturn. ● More from: WSJ.com
