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"A social-network furor has erupted over news that Facebook, in 2012, conducted a massive psychological experiment on nearly 700,000 unwitting users," reports The Wall Street Journal. [Note: The WSJ is behind a pay wall and may ask you to pay…
Nicki Minaj won best female hip hop artist at Sunday's BET awards for the fifth consecutive year, on a night when Beyonce, Pharrell Williams and Drake were also among the big winners. The ceremony was reportedly tainted by news of…
"Three days after the Supreme Court ruled that Aereo had violated copyright laws by capturing broadcast signals on miniature antennas and transmitting them to subscribers for a fee, the company suspended its service," reports The New York Times. The story…
Best Female R&B/Pop Artist WINNER: Beyoncé Janelle Monáe Jhené Aiko K. Michelle Rihanna Tamar Braxton Best Male R&B/Pop Artist WINNER: Pharrell Williams August Alsina Chris Brown John Legend Justin Timberlake Best Group WINNER: Young Money A$AP Mob Daft Punk Macklemore…
"Learning how your TV station connects with its community and all the offers from the networks and syndicators" were two big takeaways cited by at least one TV station executive who attended the recently concluded PromaxBDA TV Station Summit in…
The Queen of Soul is talking to the Lifetime channel about a biopic, reports Billboard. According to the story, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, "during a recent visit to New York … met with the Lifetime channel [about a…
"Meshach Taylor, the actor best known as the friendly colleague of four Southern women on the popular sitcom 'Designing Women,' died on Saturday, June 28, 2014, at his home near Los Angeles," reports The New York Times. The Times adds:…
"Bobby Womack, 70, who spanned the American soul music era, touring as a gospel singer in the 1950s, playing guitar in Sam Cooke’s backup band in the early ’60s, writing hit songs recorded by Wilson Pickett and the Rolling Stones…
By Jeanine Poggi Advertising Age TV networks' apparently total victory over Aereo at the Supreme Court on Wednesday isn't necessarily a long-term win for the broadcasters, observers and analysts said as the implications of the ruling settled in. By solidifying…
Even though the match aired during the workday for most Americans, the World Cup showdown between Team USA and Germany attracted ESPN's second-largest audience for a men's soccer match, B&C reports. The match delivered 10.8 million viewers, the story reports,…