An ESPN basketball analyst and former NBA player was recently arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, SportsNewser.com reported. The incident involving Jalen Rose happened March 11 in Michigan but was not immediately reported. Rose, a former NBA star…
Amazon has launched an Internet service that lets customers store music on Amazon’s servers and access them using digital devices such as computers and smartphones, CNNMoney.com reported. The move puts Amazon, at least temporarily, out in front of similar efforts…
An Emmy Award-winning "Good Morning America" news anchor will be leaving the show to take a full-time job at "Nightline," reports B&C. Juju Chang has been news anchor for the morning ABC program since December 2009, and has also been…
One of the Fox News Channel’s most familiar faces received some bad news when first-quarter cable ratings were released this week, as his program had the steepest declines among cable news shows, Deadline.com reported. The “Glenn Beck” show drew 1.9…
After four years, the Federal Communications Commission has taken action against two television stations for airing glowing news segments that were essentially commercials dressed up to appear as news reports, according to the Los Angeles Times. The agency’s proposed penalty…
The top man at Time Warner saw his paycheck get a massive boost in 2010, Bloomberg reports. Compensation paid to Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Bewkes jumped 34% to $26.3 million, according to the report. Bewkes’ salary rose to $2 million…
Helped by the third season of "Jersey Shore," MTV is ending the first quarter of 2011 with its best ratings in five years, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. The network’s young viewers jumped 27% compared with the…
Just 1.3 million total viewers tuned in for Sunday’s debut of HBO’s "Mildred Pierce," which stars Oscar winner Kate Winslet as a Depression-era housewife, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. That figure is at the low end for…
Oprah Winfrey went on Twitter Sunday night to try to boost viewers for an episode of a show on her cable channel, OWN, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. The results, the story reports, are open to interpretation….
AMC announced Tuesday that critical and popular favorite “Mad Men” won’t be back for its fifth season until 2012, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The reason: difficulties in negotiations with show creator Matthew Weiner. As reported earlier, issues in the…