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One of the highest-stakes sports events is set to tip off later this month, with Kantar Media revealing that the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship — aka “March Madness” — is the second-most-lucrative postseason franchises, trailing only the NFL…
The first time I saw Bruce Springsteen, he was in a coffin. OK, that’s a lie. By the time I saw Springsteen in a coffin I had already seen him perform concerts about half a dozen times. The time I…
Back in 1985, Michael Jackson bought the ATV Music catalog for $41.5 million, reports TMZ. Now, says TMZ, “Sony is forking over $750 million to buy out MJ’s share of [what is now called] Sony/ATV Music Publishing.” The story also…
“A scathing multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed today against CBS has no-nonsense host Judy Scheindlin, her syndicated series [‘Judge Judy’] and its spinoff ‘Hot Bench’ in the legal spotlight,” Deadline.com reports. “Seeking widespread unspecified damages, plaintiff Rebel Entertainment Partners claims that that…
A reporter who was allegedly “roughed up” at a Donald Trump press conference quit her job with the Breitbart News and three other staffers followed her out the door, the AP reports. The reporter, Michelle Fields, said she can’t work…
Kevin Spacey has pulled out of the role he was expected to assume as chairman of Relativity as it re-emerges from bankruptcy, Variety reports. “Relativity Media said it has formally inked a deal for Spacey’s producing partner, Dana Brunetti, to…
A journalist who became known as a voice of conscience for his profession has died. The New York Times reports that Ben H. Bagdikian died Friday at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 96. Bagdikian was dean of the Graduate…
A reporter for CBS News was arrested at a rally for GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump in Chicago Friday night. Poynter reports that Sopan Deb, who has been covering that Trump campaign, was one of five people arrested after protesters…
TV fitness icon Richard Simmons responded to rumors that the reason he hasn’t been seen in public in more than two years is because he was kidnapped and is being held hostage. ET reports that Simmons, 67, said: “I am…
NBC pulled off something over the weekend that it hasn’t accomplished in almost 12 years, winning an in-season Sunday night in total viewers among the broadcast networks with a prime-time slate of entertainment programming. The network announced that it was…