Wilmington, N.C., this week became the first U.S. city to complete the transition to digital television. By all accounts, the event was a smashing success.

Washington—Federal Communications Commission member Robert McDowell is urging TV station owners, cable operators and satellite TV providers to reach a private agreement that guarantees carriage of local TV signals during next February's digital TV transition.

History’s Sept. 11 special revisiting the 2001 U.S. terrorist attacks, 102 Minutes That Changed America, drew 5.2 million viewers.

Major League Baseball’s MLB Network, set to go live January 1, will use 36 media servers and other systems from Thomson’s Grass Valley unit to handle the entire HD post-production process.

Landmark Communications said Friday that it has completed the sale of The Weather Channel properties to a group headed by NBC Universal.

The trio of studios launching a new TV network—namely Viacom’s Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Lionsgate—has narrowed down a potential name for the start-up to two choices.

The two biggest U.S. cable operators have decided that if people are going to download video entertainment over the Internet a la carte, they should be in the game.

Motorola expanded its video-on-demand portfolio with products designed to give operators more flexibility in what kind of underlying storage they use to deliver VOD and other time-shifted TV services.

TBS this weekend will debut a new advertisement featuring rock n’ roll group Bon Jovi and several Major League Baseball players reprising the “I Love This Town” song to promote the upcoming baseball playoffs on the network.