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“Dish Network, the satellite provider, is trying to lure younger viewers back to paying for television with the start of a web-based offering that includes ESPN and a number of other popular networks for $20 a month, about a fifth…
“[M]ultiple production companies are interested in inking a deal with Bruce Jenner and his clan to do their own show,” TMZ wrote over this past weekend. The story continues, “Think ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ with a bit more testosterone.”…
“When anchor Hannah Storm announced during the 9 a.m. hour of ‘SportsCenter’ that longtime ESPN personality Stuart Scott had died Sunday morning after a long battle with cancer, her poignant words, delivered while fighting back tears, were the first confirmation…
“The NFL playoff wild card game between Carolina and Phoenix capped a memorable week for ESPN, becoming the No. 8 most-watched telecast in cable TV history, just days after two college football playoff games on the network set all-time records for cable…
This was the New Year’s day surprise on the Business Insider website: “For sure, [Yahoo CEO Marissa] Mayer and Yahoo considered acquiring Scripps Networks Interactive. Yahoo considered Scripps during a time when Mayer and other executives thought Yahoo would have billions of dollars…
“Family members say Donna Douglas passed away at the age of 81,” according to a report on the website of Raycom’s WAFB in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The story adds, “Douglas was an actress, best known for her role as Elly…
NBC News President Deborah Turness, Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman, and MSNBC President Phil Griffin are three media executives “who have much to worry about” in 2015, according to David Carr, who writes The Media Equation column in The New York…
“Bill Cosby has hired a battalion of private investigators to dig up dirt on his many accusers,” reports the New York Post in an exclusive story by Stacy Brown. The story, which was published on Sunday, Dec. 28, 2014, in…
Please click here to read TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross’s recommendations this holiday season.
I hope that one of the tasks you are making time for during the holidays is some binge TV watching. One friend is just now catching up with “Breaking Bad.” (By the way, if you haven’t seen this series, which…