A new initiative by online giant Amazon will dramatically change how consumers tackle one of the most persistent errands they face: buying groceries. The Silicon Valley Business Journal reports that Amazon is developing a drive-up grocery store, with the first…
Some readers may be surprised to learn that the DVD-by-mail business continues to thrive at Netflix, even as the company’s rapidly expanding online streaming business has far surpassed the scale of the DVD operation. The New York Times reports: “Netflix…
Huge tech firms including Apple, Microsoft and Google, along with other major companies such as General Motors, Goldman Sachs, UPS and Walmart, are joining a White House-coordinated effort to create a global consensus on climate change. Mashable reports that the…
Comcast Corp. and Discovery Communications have come to terms on carriage, announcing today that they’ve signed a long-term, comprehensive renewal of their distribution agreement. The agreement “will deliver Discovery’s 12 U.S. networks to Comcast’s Xfinity TV customers across the nation,”…
Press release from Comedy Central, July 27, 2015: Just as the leaves start to change colors, Comedy Central is changing the game up with the number one brand in comedy’s fall programming slate. Trevor Noah makes his debut as the…
The producers of PBS’s new special “The Bomb” could not have predicted the current furor over the Iran nuclear deal while they were making their two-hour documentary, whose airing was timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the detonation…
WE TV CELEBRATES 25th ANNIVERSARY OF ICONIC SERIES “LAW & ORDER” THIS AUGUST Birthday Bash Kicks Off with “Law & Order 25th Anniversary Binge-A-Thon” Two-Night Marathon with Fan-Favorite Episodes on July 28 and 29 WE tv is getting a jump…
She created a popular radio sitcom in the 1940’s that later became a TV show that ran on all three major networks: ABC, CBS and NBC. “Peg Lynch, who wrote and starred in ‘Ethel and Albert, one of television’s earliest…