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Comedian Kathy Griffin uttered a profanity on CNN’s live New Year’s show for the second year in a row, the Associated Press reports. Griffin was joking with co-host Anderson Cooper about the pronunciation of the first name of "balloon boy"…
A man wanted for three bank robberies in Oregon appeared on Discovery Channel’s "Deadliest Catch" before being arrested, according to police, the Associated Press reports. Joshua Tel Warner was arrested in East Peoria, Ill., after a routine traffic stop of…
Disney Channel has a new sitcom in the works for its spring schedule and the target audience isn’t just the networks’ usual tween viewers, the Los Angeles Times reports. The network hopes “Good Luck Charlie" will attract a family audience,…
Sinclair and Mediacom set an eight-day interim carriage agreement, which runs through Jan. 8, as they continued to negotiate a new retransmission consent deal, B&C reports. The short deal is at Sinclair’s terms, which are higher than the current deal…
Football remained on the air as News Corp. and Time Warner Cable struck a retransmission deal Friday evening, several hours after a midnight deadline, The New York Times reports. Terms weren’t disclosed. Fox had been demanding about $1 per subscriber…
Cablevision dropped HGTV and Food Network when a deal between the two expired at midnight on New Year’s Eve, and no progress has been made resolving the dispute, Multichannel News reports. Scripps is said to be looking to receive three…
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is trying to play mediator in the retransmission consent dispute between Time Warner Cable and News Corp., worried that the fight will disrupt New Year’s Day football games, the Los Angeles Times reports. In a letter…
TMZ is expected to spin off an all-sports site next year, The New York Times reports, citing the blog SportsByBrooks, which noted that the celebrity site has registered the TMZSports.com domain name. The expected spinoff comes after several weeks of…