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Apple is in talks with Comcast "about teaming up for a streaming-television service that would use an Apple set-top box and get special treatment on Comcast’s cables to ensure it bypasses congestion on the Web, people familiar with the matter…
A widely distributed sports report by the Associated Press last Friday, March 21, 2014, began “The billion dollar dream is over. “A second day of upsets ended any chance of someone having a perfect NCAA tournament bracket in Warren Buffett’s…
Fox’s "American Idol" sank to another historic low Thursday night, while ABC rolled to a win on the continuing strength of two drama series. Meanwhile, CBS’s coverage of the "March Madness" NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament got off to a soft…
This year’s "March Madness" NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is setting records for digital viewing, Turner Sports announced. While viewership for the tournament on CBS appears to be down, based on early results for broadcast prime time (see separate story), viewing…
While opponents continue to voice their concerns about one proposed media merger, another one is now in the works. On the heels of the $45 billion Comcast purchase of Time Warner Cable announced last month, news of a smaller —…
A Peabody Award-winning TV news producer who has been a mainstay at CBS News has died. The news division announced that Adrian “Clem” Taylor died today at 60 in a Newark hospital after battling pancreatic cancer for almost a year….
A cyber security blogger is the focus of a movie deal with Sony, according to an exclusive by The Hollywood Reporter. Brian Krebs, who runs the site KrebsonSecurity.com and was reportedly the first person to expose the Target credit card…
One of USA Network’s signature series appears headed for its final season. The series is "White Collar," the police procedural that debuted on USA back in 2009. Our good friend Nellie Andreeva over at Deadline.com writes that she hears that the…
A TV station in Omaha, Neb., has issued an apology over its handling of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the statement from Hearst Television-owned KETV, an ABC affiliate, came after the station sent out a…
Citing "underperformance" by the show, A&E has pulled a series off its schedule after it aired just a single episode. Writing on the Variety website, Brian Steinberg reports that the cable channel pulled “Breaking Boston,” produced by Mark Wahlberg, after…