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PBS has bought Spike Lee’s “Passing Strange” for its “Great Performances” series, Daily Variety reports. The film, an adaptation of the rock musical of the same name which follows a young black man in the 1970s who travels to Europe,…
Tom Durkin, who has called more than 68,000 horse races in two decades and will call Saturday’s Kentucky Derby, tells USA Today he’s afraid of horses. “They’re really intimidating and have those big teeth. I love them from afar, like…
A bankruptcy court will hear the dispute over the rights to the cartoon detective Dick Tracy between Tribune Co. and Warren Beatty, the Associated Press reports. A judge agreed to let the two sites submit preminary briefs in the case,…
AOL’s new chief Tim Armstrong has already recruited a former Google colleague to help restore AOL’s advertising business, the New York Post reports. Armstrong has tapped Jeff Levick as president of global advertising and strategy for AOL and who had…
Discovery Communications said it is forming a children’s programming joint venture with Hasbro, TelevisionWeek reports. The joint venture will include a cable network and a Web site and include the assets of what is now Discovery Kids Network in the…
Viacom’s first quarter net earnings fell 34% amid a recession and a soft advertising market, TelevisionWeek reports Earnings were $177 million, or 28 cents per share. Revenues fell 7% to $2.9 billion. At its media networks group, which includes MTV,…
Comcast said that its net income rose 6% reflecting additional high speed Internet and telephone customers, which offset a 2% drop in video customers, Television Week reports. Revenue was up 5% to $8.8 billion despite a 1% drop in revenue…
President Obama is expected to nominate Mignon Clyburn to a vacant seat on the federal Communications Commission, the Wall Street Journal reports. Clyburn, the oldest daughter of House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn, is a commissioner on the South Carolina…
Sumner Redstone says the stock market is at the start of a bull market and that he has no plans to give up control of CBS and Viacom, Reuters reports. “I have no intention of retiring or dying. I could…
Outgoing News Corp. COO Peter Chernin said that despite rumors his next job might be at Viacom, he hasn’t had any conversations with the entertainment company that owns MTV, the Los Angeles Times reports. Chernin said he is interested in…