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Daily Archives : Jun 12, 2009

ESPN to Air Rose Bowl in 2011

ESPN will broadcast the Rose Bowl Game beginning January 2011, Broadcasting & Cable reports. ABC will air the 2010 Rose Bowl Game. The network has a seperate deal to televise the Rose Bowl through 2014. ESPN will televise 15 Bowl…

Consumers Flood Call Centers Seeking DTV Help

The FCC Call Center is experiencing high demand due to consumers seeking help with the digital transition taking place today, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Wait time is up to 15 minutes, with 4,000 operators standing by to assist callers. Many…

Conan is King? ‘Crowning’ Goes Against Tradition

It was shocking to see a press release from NBC this week with the headline “Conan the new king of late-night.” It was a ratings release, issued Thursday — the day each week when national Nielsens for the previous week’s…

VIDEO: Watch Sarah Palin Attack Letterman on ‘Today’

Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) addressed the controversy surrounding David Letterman’s jokes about her daughter this morning on “Today.” Matt Lauer’s full interview with Palin below: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

‘Nurse Jackie’: Quiet. Mean. Awesome.

You never know what Edie Falco’s Nurse Jackie is going to pull out of one of her scrubs pockets next. Her wedding band? A packet of sweetener actually filled with carefully crushed Vicodin? Maybe the separate cell phone she keeps…

Ratings Watch: Dave Beats Conan, Conan Beats Dave, Reporters Beat Dead Horse

Conan O’Brien and David Letterman continue to duke it out in the late night ratings arena, with Letterman regaining the households lead and O’Brien dominating in the financially vital key demographics. In Nielsen’s overnight metered-market households, Letterman regained the lead…

Palin on ‘Today’ Show this Morning: Letterman ‘Not Cool and Not Funny’ for Joking About ‘Statutory Rape’

Sarah Palin tore into David Letterman on the “Today” show this morning, telling co-host Matt Lauer that "I would say that you and anybody else are extremely naïve to believe David Letterman’s very extremely convenient excuse” that he was joking about…

Leaked Emails Appear to Support Trump’s Version of Firing Miss California; She Might File Suit Over the Firing

A series of leaked emails seems to support the official version of why Carrie Prejean–Miss California. Read some of the emails here on  Entertainment Weekly’s Popwatch. Separately, the lawyer for Prejean told Fox News that Prejean may file a lawsuit protesting…

Broadcast TV Advertising Down 11.9% in Q1

Total broadcast television advertising declined 11.9% to $10.5 billion in the first quarter, according to data from the Television Bureau of Advertising’s TNS Media Intelligence report, The Hollywood Reporter says. Spot TV fell the most in the top 100 markets,…

TV Guide Channel Scales Back Shows

The TV Guide Channel will take the weekly talk show "TV Watercooler" off the air starting June 22, The Hollywood Reporter says. Additionally, the channel will turn daily entertainment newsmagazine "Hollywood 411" into a weekly show starting June 26, while…