CBS announced that veteran play-by-play man Jim Nantz will be honored with the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award. Nantz will be the youngest recipient ever of the award, which recognizes “longtime exceptional contributions to radio and…
A top TV syndication executive who was a president of ABC Films in the 1960s and a driving force behind the launch of the National Association of Television Program Executives has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Hal Golden died…
A former champion of Fox’s "American Idol" will be back on the network to sing the National Anthem at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, reports the Associated Press. Jordin Sparks, winner of “American Idol’s” sixth season, has done the…
On Friday, July 8, from 10 a.m. to noon ET, CNN will turn the spotlight on the final NASA space shuttle launch, with anchorman Anderson Cooper acting as host. The broadcast will be live from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The show…
A week after strong numbers for the premiere week on Current TV, "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" took a ratings tumble in week two, reports Deadline.com. The drop-off was significant, almost 30%, but some of that decline could be due to…
Coverage of the Casey Anthony case continued after she was declared not guilty Tuesday on the most important charges, with cable news hosts Anderson Cooper of CNN and Nancy Grace of HLN among the loudest critics of her defense team’s…
Millions of viewers tuned in to watch the Casey Anthony verdict via live streaming on news networks’ websites, reports TVNewser.com. MSNBC.com reported more than 1.25 million live video streams of the verdict, and said it expected between 8 million and…
Most of the late-night hosts were on vacation on the night of the Casey Anthony verdict, depriving viewers of what could have been a big night for comedy material, Entertainment Weekly reports. Unfortunately, the one host who was on the…
After the Casey Anthony verdict came in on Tuesday, one cable news channel must deal with a potential "brutal withdrawal from its addiction to the case," writes Joe Flint in the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog, referring to HLN….
Two of "Law & Order: SVU’s” most popular assistant district attorneys will be returning to the NBC program this fall, reports TVLine.com. Actresses Stephanie March, who plays Alexandra Cabot on the show, and Diane Neal, who plays Casey Novak, will…