Atlanta TV ratings for November: Fox 5 up year over year; WSB adjusts to life post-’Oprah’

For each of the three major news networks in 2011, there was good news and bad news, depending on how you spin it. Fox News could take comfort that it remains the dominant ratings leader, drawi ...

Oprah Winfrey moved from syndicated talk-show world to cable TV network life. CREDIT: AP TV in 2011 brought America a fair share of idiocy, often attached to a Kardashian or Sheen. There was no ...

The summer months were kind to Atlanta top 40 and hip-hop stations, tougher on the rock and country stations. Let’s start with the good news: B98.5's morning show Vikki Locke and Kelly Stevens ...

Entering their 14th year at V-103, Wanda Smith and Frank Ski continue to dominate the morning airwaves on V-103. CREDIT: Rodney Ho/rho@ajc.com from 2008 With B98.5’s Christmas bump out of the w ...

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Pandora Internet Radio doubled its younger listeners in Atlanta over the past year, ac ...

Given all the hype over the past months, “The X Factor” debut last night didn’t exactly blow anybody away: 12.5 million viewers and a 4.4 share among 18 to 49 year olds. (Those are early number ...

Colton Dixon and Schyler Dixon on AMERICAN IDOL airing Wednesday, Jan. 18 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. CR: Michael Becker / FOX. Now we know what the early impact of “The X Factor” and “The Vo ...

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. TV consultant Brad Adgate today sent out some statistics about “American Idol,” the bi ...

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. TNT’s gritty L.A. cop drama “Southland” is getting a fifth season despite modest ratin ...

Adele won all six categories she was in, including Record of the Year and Album of the Year. CREDIT: AP The Grammy Awards drew a whopping 39 million viewers last night, up from 26.6 million a y ...

Randy and Spiff are seeking work after losing their fifth job in Atlanta in October. CREDIT: Rodney Ho/rho@ajc.com I’ve covered Atlanta radio for ten years. 2011 was a relatively quiet one. We ...

David Archuleta, season 8 runner up on “Idol,” announced Monday that he will be taking a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Deseret News reported that he ...

Shaquille O’Neal timed his retirement well. Even if he had wanted to play a 20th year, the current lockout situation would have left him on the sidelines with everybody else. Not that the 39 ye ...

AM750 and 95.5FM News/Talk WSB has won a prestigious Marconi Award as News/Talk Station of the Year from the National Association of Broadcasters. A special group of broadcasters picked the Mar ...

Some of the survivors hunt for a missing child while evading the walkers. CREDIT: AMC Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. ...

Channel 2 WSB-TV has promoted news director Marian Pittman to the newly created position of station manager. She will now be more involved in the long-term direction of the station — the most-w ...

CNN's T.J. Holmes is joining BET starting next month. In a sign that BET is recommitting itself to news, the network has signed Atlanta-based CNN weekend anchor T.J. Holmes to an agreement that ...

Oprah Winfrey interviewed some of Whitney Houston's family members Friday in Atlanta. CREDIT: AP Oprah Winfrey flew into Atlanta late last week to tape an exclusive interview with Whitney Houst ...