Showtime has ordered a second season of a series that had a strong debut earlier this month, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series is "The Borgias," which debuted with 3.71 million viewers during its premiere week and delivered the…
After signing on an average of 1.1 million U.S. customers for each month in the first quarter, Netflix now has more subscribers than any other video service in the country, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. The company…
U.S. lawmakers are questioning six companies including Apple and Google about whether their products violate privacy rules by tracking user locations, reports Bloomberg. Five Republican lawmakers sent letters Monday to the companies, questioning how they store location data and whether…
Yahoo has bought IntoNow, a company that makes a television "check-in" app for Apple devices such as iPhones and iPod Touch, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Technology blog. The app works by using microphones inside the devices to listen to…
Hubert J. "Hub" Schlafly Jr., a television engineer who helped invent the teleprompter, has died at 91, reports The Washington Post. The idea for the teleprompter came in the 1940s when a Broadway actor, Fred Barton, came up with the…
BBC America set a ratings record with the season premiere of a British import Saturday, TVGuide.com reported. The first part of a two-part "Doctor Who" episode drew 1.27 million viewers to the cable channel, which made the show the network’s…
Katie Couric is considering jumping to ABC after her “CBS Evening News” contract expires in the next couple of weeks, Bloomberg reports. The 54-year-old anchor is expected to announce later this week that she is leaving “Evening News.” The insiders…
NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice” was up 12% from a week ago in the 18-49 demo Sunday night, TVbytheNumbers.com reported, perhaps helped by the recent media campaign by its host, Donald Trump. For the night overall, the ratings crown was a split…
America’s hottest magazine–topping the list of the industry’s most successful and influential magazines over the past year, according to Adweek–is Food Network Magazine. The rankings are based on a mix of financial measurements and influence stats derived from media profile,…
The man who developed the compact disc and helped Sony expand into a media, entertainment and software leader, Norio Ohga, died Saturday, April 23, at the age of 81, according to The Hollywood Reporter. When Sony purchased Columbia Pictures in…