Nancy Grace has settled a lawsuit from the family of a woman who committed suicide the day after she taped a combative phone interview with the Headline News anchor, reports the New York Post. Melinda Duckett’s family claimed Grace inflicted…
Comcast is relying on NBC Universal executives to fill out the new management structure of the media company, with Comcast Chief Operating Officer Steve Burke preparing to unveil the personnel line-up around Thanksgiving, the New York Post’s Claire Atkinson reports….
Conan O’Brien is back on a regularly scheduled show, starting tonight. TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross says that corresponds with Ross’ finishing Bill Carter’s latest book, which is about the Leno-Conan conundrum. Based on what he read and his own…
SAG and AFTRA reached a tentative three-year deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers this weekend, with the unions receiving 2% annual wage increases, The Hollywood Reporter reports. While that’s a modest gain, the unions won big…
DirecTV reported higher revenues and a 27% increase in operating profit when it announced its third-quarter earnings Thursday, TheWrap reported. The important measure of average monthly revenue per subscriber also grew during the quarter, by 4.3 percent, the story says….
AT&T U-Verse has dropped the Scripps Networks Interactive channels from its service after the two companies failed to come to terms on carriage rates, B&C reports. HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, Cooking Channel and Great American Country are the channels…
News Corp.’s first-quarter profit jumped 36% from higher advertising sales and subscriber fees at its television channels, reports Bloomberg. The company is benefiting from higher fees from TV distributors, as seen with its new deals with Dish Network and Cablevision…
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors have preliminarily banned toys from certain Happy Meals, reports the Globe and Mail. Says the report, "On Tuesday, San Francisco became the first major U.S. city to ban restaurants from offering a free toy…
MTV has apologized to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation for a "Jersey Shore" scene involving Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino calling another club-goer "a tranny," reports the New York Times’ ArtsBeat blog. The alliance considers the term a slur…
According to CNET, the following note has been sent from Apple to record label executives: