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Twitter shares hit it out of the park in their first day of trading, with the price soaring as investors grabbed for a piece of what they hope will be the next monster social media stock. USA Today reports that…
The distributors of syndicated television programming are finding out that time slots are hard to come by for fall 2014, with syndicators hoping to roll out somewhere in the ballpark of 20 new shows. Most of those new programs are…
NBC will focus on finding a successor to "Today" co-host Matt Lauer over the next two years, even though NBC News Group Chairman Patricia Fili-Krushel recently said she wants to keep Lauer "as long as he wants to stay," according…
A woman who made an appearance this week on NBC’s morning show "Today" died soon after that appearance. USA Today reports that Joy Johnson, a retired gym teacher who was the oldest woman to compete in Sunday’s New York City…
Netflix and Marvel owner Disney today announced a landmark deal that will bring a number of Marvel’s heroes to the video streaming service. The long-term deal calls for Marvel TV to develop four serialized programs along with a miniseries programming…
FX is bringing back a heavily honored drama series for another season, with the show’s star also tapped to return. The Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker reports that the cable net ordered a fourth season of "American Horror Story." Star…
A major-market broadcast partnership that has been in place for 65 years may soon be a thing of the past. The Chicago Tribune reports that the Chicago Cubs may exit their broadcast contract with WGN-TV after the 2014 season. The…
CBS chief Leslie Moonves told analysts on a conference call to discuss his company’s third-quarter earnings that the broadcaster’s results were not hurt by the Time Warner Cable blackout, reports Deadline.com. Moonves "rubbed a little salt into the cable operators’…
Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced a deal today that gives it control of seven television stations in four markets, the financial news website Benzinga reports. The $87.5 million deal, which the report says "is expected to be immediately accretive upon closing,"…
As the Baby Boomer generation arrives at a "certain age," ABC is developing a comedy about men in their 60s — former basketball teammates — who reconnect and rediscover friendship, reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. The project comes from "The…