MediaWeek

Viewers have tripled their use of watching TV shows via the Internet since 2006 -- and some of this has hurt traditional TV viewing.

According to a report that summarizes Online Reputation Research, commissioned by Microsoft, fewer than 15% of consumers surveyed in the U.S. and the U.K. believe that information found online would have an impact on their getting a job.

A Maine legislative committee voted Thursday to repeal a controversial 2009 online marketing law that restricts the data that can be collected from minors.

The fight between Spanish Broadcasting System and Arbitron turned ugly Friday (Feb. 12). After being ordered by a court to resume encoding its signals for Arbitron's portable people meter service, SBS, backed by the other members of the PPM Coalition, appealed to the Federal Communications Commission.

Over the past decade, gay characters have become almost "de rigeur" on television, whether serving as comic foils or dramatic catalysts. Lesbian characters, meanwhile, have been less visible.

The bloom may be coming off the TV advertising rose. According to a joint Association of National Advertisers and Forrester Research survey of more than 100 national advertisers, 62 percent of respondents think TV ads have become less effective in the past two years.

ABC's affiliates are not only in a battle with the network over retransmission fees, but they are also boiling mad that corporate sibling ESPN is being handed live sports events they were initially supposed to carry.

More than 48 million people (48,009,595) tuned in to watch President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address Wednesday night (Jan. 27).

Gail Huff, wife of Senator-elect Scott Brown (R-MA), is staying put as a general assignment reporter for WCVB-TV, Hearst Television's ABC affiliate in Boston.

Air America Media, the left-leaning radio network with a political mission, told its employees Thursday (Jan. 21) that it had filed for bankruptcy and will shut down operations by Monday.