While Comcast Chief Executive Brian Roberts says NBCUniversal’s $4.4 billion deal to telecast the next four Olympics will prove profitable, some others aren’t so sure, reports Bloomberg. Comcast plans to make money by charging higher distribution fees for broadcast stations…
Fox Business Network hired a Barack Obama impersonator to take part in a "debate" with presidential candidate Gary Johnson, former New Mexico governor, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The debate was featured on "Media Matters for America" with host John…
MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski openly pitched moving their show to CNN when they ran into Time Warner chief Jeff Bewkes, reports the New York Post. Scarborough reportedly told Bewkes, whose company is the corporate parent…
In a move that ratchets up its rivalry with PBS, Nickelodeon is getting into the homework game with the July introduction of a set of math homework kits, reports Elizabeth Jensen in The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. The…
Apple said it’s recalling an "extremely small number" of iPad 2’s because of a problem connecting to Verizon Wireless’ network, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Technology blog. The recall affects iPad 2’s that were made with duplicate identifying numbers, which…
One of the stars of NBC’s “30 Rock” is apologizing for an anti-gay set of jokes that went awry at a concert appearance at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville last Friday, The Huffington Post reports. Comic Tracy Morgan, who plays…
The just-concluded broadcast upfront secured higher volume and solid price increases for the big networks, solidifying the impression that advertisers’ fondness for Big TV is alive and well, reports Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. But does the estimated $8.8 billion…
Game 5 of the NBA Finals between the Dallas Mavericks and the Miami Heat resulted in another winning night in the Nielsen ratings for ABC, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. In preliminary numbers–which distort comparisons because they are likely to be adjusted significantly–the…
HBO is joining forces again with Jane Tranter and Anne Thomopoulos, who produced the series “Rome” for the network, for a new miniseries based on Robert Graves’ “I, Claudius,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project, a co-production with BBC2,…
Christopher Meloni is gone from NBC’s "Law & Order: SVU," but co-star Ice-T has just re-signed with the crime drama for two years, reports TVLine. The actor/rapper tweeted the news this morning, saying: "I’ve just locked in my new SVU…