Cable stocks were among the casualties as the stock market reacted Thursday to uncertainty surrounding the European debt crisis, Multichannel News reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 198 points on the day, with the impact felt in virtually all…
A bankruptcy judge has given the Los Angeles Dodgers the OK to sell future television rights earlier than their contract with Fox Sports allows, reports Bloomberg. Judge Kevin Gross overruled Fox’s objection to allowing the team to talk with TV…
The biggest story in the NFL this season has focused on a second-year player who continues to find ways to win despite possessing a skill set that many football purists say is woefully lacking. The player is the Denver Broncos’…
The cast of "Community" has created a mock public-service announcement geared to generating fan support for the NBC comedy, reports TV.com. The video, posted on CollegeHumor.com, features the actors playing the characters in an ad to "save" Greendale Community College….
MTV’s "Teen Mom 2" debuted to the highest ratings in the show’s history, even as a watchdog group warned that the show is harmful to young women, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. The premiere of "Teen Mom 2’s” second season…
American Airlines followed up on the widely publicized Alec Baldwin tantrum incident, which we reported earlier today, by taking to Facebook to give its side of the beef, CBS News reports. The airline did not name Baldwin, but reported that…
Comcast Corp. has named a new chief executive officer for multiple system operator Comcast Cable Communications. The job goes to Neil Smit, currently president of Comcast Cable. Smit will report to Brian L. Roberts, Comcast Corp. chairman and CEO. Said…
A show that ran into difficulties earlier in the year appears to have landed on its feet and is way ahead of the rest of the fall lineup in ratings gains in the key demo. The show is CBS’s “Two…
One of the most high-profile, and high-stakes, new dramas of the fall season is at risk, and it may have less to do with ratings than with the high cost of producing the show. The show is Fox’s dinosaur series…
Continuing what has been a year of churn among on-air personalities at a number of cable news channels, another CNN anchor is leaving the network. Weekend anchor T.J. Holmes will leave CNN at the end of the year, TVNewser reports….