“American Idol” alum Jennifer Hudson was the big winner at the NAACP Image Awards, broadcast Thursday night from Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium, after she won awards for new artist, duo and album, the Hollywood Reporter says. Tyler Perry, who co-hosted…
Joaquin Phoenix’s appearance on David Letterman’s “Late Show” has become an instant classic, memorable for all the wrong reasons, the Associated Press reports. During the interview, the actor apparently forgot the name of his “Two Lovers” co-star, Gwyneth Paltrow, and…
House Communications, Technology & Internet Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., said he’ll push to require satellite companies to carry all local TV stations, and that his top priority as head of the subcommittee is broadband deployment, Broadcasting & Cable…
Peter Gabriel has pulled out of the Academy Awards show, saying in a letter to the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences that he doesn’t believe the nominated songs, and their writers and performers, would get enough respect during…
Veteran digital media agent Lewis Henderson is leaving the William Morris Agency at the end of the month, according to published report. Mr. Henderson has been with the agency for 17 years and he’s been leading the digital media group…
News Corp. president Peter Chernin’s contract expires June 30 and concern is mounting inside the company and on Wall Street that he might not stay on as Rupert Murdoch’s No. 2, the Los Angeles Times reports. “While Chernin has not…
Just weeks after pulling out of the business of selling newspaper advertising, Google said it is exiting the radio ad sales business, the Wall Street Journal reports. The retreat raises questions about Google’s prospects selling TV commercials, an effort that…
Fox is launching “Dollhouse” as its second series using a format with shorter commercial breaks, the New York Times reports. Fox charged higher ad rates for “Fringe,” its first show using the “Remote Free TV” approach, and says spots are…
NBC’s move putting a Jay Leno talk show in primetime is a sign of the inexorable slide of broadcast network programming from award-winning drama to low-budget cheese, the Atlantic reports. As economic conditions worsen the “first casualty may be the…
Walt Disney Co., whose princesses are popular with little girls, is launching Disney XD, a brand aimed at six to 14-year-old boys, the New York Times reports. “We realized that a true headquarters for boys has been missing from the…