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Families of war victims will have the right to decide whether the media will be allowed to cover the return of war dead to Dover Air Force Base, reversing an 18-year ban by the Pentagon on such coverage, Broadcasting &…
Mexico-based media company Televisa’s fourth-quarter profit was little changed from a year earlier, the Hollywood Reporter says. For the year, Televisa’s earnings rose 2% on a 19% jump in revenue from pay television and telecommunications growth, the newspaper reports. —Danny…
Anjelica Huston will return to “Medium” to reprise her role as the former boss of Patricia Arquette’s character, Entertainment Weekly reports. Also, Ed Asner will play a clockmaker in an April episode of “CSI: NY,” the magazine says. —Danny King
Latino media company Univision today fired 300 employees, or about 6% of its workforce, as the company copes with almost $11 billion in debt, Daily Variety reports. Univision, which agreed in January to pay Televisa $25 million in unpaid royalties,…
Nick Counter, president of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, will retire when his five-year contract expires next month, Daily Variety reports. Carol Lombardini, second in command to Counter, will serve as acting president of AMPTP, which is…
Ed McMahon, 85, is in intensive care after being hospitalized for pneumonia and other ailments, the Associated Press reports, citing his spokesman Howard Bragman. McMahon, Johnny Carson’s sidekick on “The Tonight Show” between 1962 and 1992, broke his neck in…
The many and varied characters who populate the business of television can be forgiven for feeling as if their lives lately have started to resemble those of characters in a really bad horror movie. Every day seems to bring another…
The Media-Mogul Biographer Talks About the Latest Drama at News Corp.
Like Fox’s ‘Fringe,’ A&E Series Will Air With Limited Commercials in Exchange for Higher Rates