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Joseph Helfgot, the founder of media market research firm MarketCast, became the second facial transplant donor in the U.S. after he died last week during heart-transplant surgery, Daily Variety reports. His family also donated his liver and the heart he…
Reed Business Information said Tuesday it would cut 7% of employees across its publications, including Variety, reports Daily Variety. RBI’s properties include Broadcasting & Cable, Video Business and L.A. 411, the publication says. Variety’s executive news editor Michael Speier and…
Screen Actors Guild President Alan Rosenberg has used the quarterly official SAG Screen Actor magazine to blast his political opponents, Daily Variety reports. Usually a vehicle for upbeat articles about the union, the magazine includes a letter from Rosenberg in…
Signet International Holdings is buying AMG TV, a network that provides syndicated shows to 200 broadcast stations, and also has signed an agreement with Kerner Broadcast Corp. to use Kerner’s 3-D television technology, Daily Variety says. “We fully plan to…
ABC has cut “20/20” correspondent Bob Brown, who has worked at the network since 1977, and has told Brown he can freelance for the network, the New York Post reports. “I hope there’s work available after June. It’s a big…
Fox Broadcasting will put special green-themed TV shows on air for Earth Day, under the company’s “Green It. Mean It” push, MediaPost reports. The campaign will start Sunday and end on April 22, which is Earth Day, the Web site…
NASA said on Tuesday it’s naming a treadmill after “The Colbert Report” host Stephen Colbert, rather than a room in the International Space Station, the Associated Press reports. Colbert won an online contest to name the room after him, beating…
Steve-O was kicked off “Dancing With the Stars” on Tuesday, after he and his dance partner earned the week’s lowest score for their rumba, the New York Daily News reports. “You can’t confuse movement with dancing. There was no hip…
MTV has agreed to drop the episode “I’m a Nuyorican” from its “True Life” series after some viewers complained about its portrayal of Puerto Ricans, the New York Daily News reports. The episode featured three New York Puerto Ricans, one…
With the upfronts just around the corner and the economy in need of stimulation, a new study by the Television Bureau of Advertising offers insights into how advertising affects consumers as they make their way toward purchase decisions. The report,…