The Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research and Cablevision Systems raised more than $1.5 million at the eighth annual Holiday Rock & Roll Bash on Dec. 11. Cablevision is underwriting all of the Lustgarten Foundation’s administrative costs, ensuring that all…
ABC News is appealing recent New York court decision that may bring a lawsuit against the news group and Diane Sawyer to trial, the New York Post reports. Twenty-year-old Kyle Nelson is suing ABC, Sawyer, her father, her stepmother and…
Promax BDA will hold its 54th annual conference June 16-18 at the Hilton New York, TVNewsday reports. The organization is accepting proposals for speakers and sessions for the show, “Leading the Marketing & Design Economy,” on its Web site www.promaxbda.org,…
Writer-producer-actor-director Carl Reiner and premium cable channel Showtime were honored at the Paley Center for Media’s gala in Los Angeles Thursday night, the Hollywood Reporter says. The general sentiment toward Reiner, as Lily Tomlin put it, was that there weren’t…
Former “American Idol” producer Nigel Lythgoe is firing back against criticism from Paula Abdul for allowing Paula Goodspeed, a former Abdul stalker, to audition during the show’s fifth season, People Magazine reports. Lythgoe mentioned that Goodspeed, who committed suicide outside…
Mobile ad price rates are decreasing as more and more handheld devices make their way to consumers, Advertising Age reports. On average, mobile ads are hovering around a $15 cost-per-thousand-viewers (CPM), compared to $20-$25 CPMs the spots were fetching earlier…
Video game sales were up 10% in November compared with last year despite the hardships of the economy, the Los Angeles Times reports, citing date from NDP Group. Video games sold $2.91 billion last month in the U.S., compared to…
Some lawmakers are expected to speak out against the FCC’s upcoming vote on the auction of radio spectrum airspace, Reuters reports. The proposed action, which includes free broadband as a requirement, is facing dissent from cell phone companies, such as…
Four out of five returning series on ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC have lower viewer turnout than they did last year, the Associated Press reports, citing new research. Of the 66 returning shows this season, only eight have posted viewer…
“CSI’s” recent addition of Laurence Fishburne to the cast may usher in a change to the face of prime-time TV, more than Barack Obama’s presidential election win, the Washington Post opines. The show announced Fishburne would be added as a…