Tiger Wood’s season-ending injury is also expected to cause some pain at the networks that broadcast golf because ratings fade when he’s not in tournaments, the New York Times reports. The network that may miss him most is Comcast’s Golf…
Michelle Obama caused confusion while guest co-hosting ABC’s “The View” after she allegedly called her husband, presidential hopeful Barack Obama, “pathetic,” the Washington Post reports. The candidate’s wife clarified that she called the senator “empathetic,” the Post says. Michelle Obama…
Media outlets continued to face difficulties getting permission to broadcast from non-Olympic venues by Chinese officials as the summer games draw nearer, the Wall Street Journal reports. Since May state officials have denied requests and credentials seeking coverage for venues…
News Corp. COO Peter Chernin and Walt Disney Co. CEO Robert Iger may step back into the fray to break the negotiation logjam with the Screen Actors Guild, Daily Variety reports. The executives played a similar role in helping to…
Rupert Murdoch’s 20th Century Fox Television has formed a partnership with ITV in England to develop and produce shows for the British and American markets, Television Week reports. One possibility is creating a show with a cast of actors from…
LG Electronics may trail Sony and Samsung in overall global high-definition television market share, but the Seoul, Korea-based company is trying to become the HDTV of choice among hotel operators. The world’s third-largest liquid-crystal display TV maker signed two agreements…
The chairman of the world’s sixth-largest ad agency holding company, Vincent Bollore of Havas SA, said he expected marketers to reduce ad spending as tough economic conditions cut into their bottom lines, the Wall Street Journal reports. Mr. Bellore said…
For Best Buy’s most recent quarter, sales of flat-panel televisions were a bright spot. For Circuit City, it was the bright spot. The two largest U.S. electronics retailers, which reported fiscal-first-quarter earnings this week, both said flat-screen TV sales increased…
The player: Kevin Towes, product manager for Adobe Systems’ Flash Media Server The play: Mr. Towes helped develop Flash Media Server 3, which was released to the public last December. The server is the first of its type that online-video…
Singer Janet Jackson is developing a music competition series with 25/7 productions for MTV, Daily Variety reports. Jackson will serve as a mentor to the competitors on the show, which has already begun casting, Variety says. —Sergio Ibarra