Fox has kicked off the annual upfront advertising market, cutting deals Thursday night with many top media agencies, reports Jon Lafayette in B&C. The network received price increases on the "low end of double digits," the story notes. Fox was…
Bloomberg LP is accusing Comcast of not fulfilling a promise it made during the Federal Communications Commission’s approval process for its merger with NBCUniversal, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. Bloomberg is threatening to complain to the FCC…
Younger viewers continue to flee the top broadcast networks, according to The Hollywood Reporter, citing overall ratings for the 2010-11 television season. Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC and CW all reported declines among viewers 18 to 49 years old compared with…
"Torchwood" showrunner Russell T. Davies says U.S. viewers are more progressive about gay and bisexual characters than viewers in Britain, thanks to U.S. shows such as "Glee" and "Modern Family," reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. “The portrayal of gay, bisexual,…
Based on the volume of online discussion during a three-day window, a TV show that aired last week is the fifth-largest online event of 2011, reports B&C. The finale of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" joins the list at No. 5,…
After getting cut as a judge from the U.S. version of "X Factor," Cheryl Cole has also lost her spot on the British version of the show, reports Deadline.com. No deal was reached to bring Cole back to the British…
Florida Gov. Rick Scott vetoed the state’s $4.8 million appropriation for public broadcasting, a figure that had already been cut by 30% from last year’s amount, reports Elizabeth Jensen in The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. That means each…
Jeff Conaway, 60, who starred on TV in “Taxi” and on the big screen in “Grease,” died today at Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center in the Los Angeles area after being in a coma for more than two weeks, E! Online…
After being called a right-wing "talk slut" by MSNBC host Ed Schultz–which earned Schultz a one-week suspension from MSNBC without pay–Fox News analyst Laura Ingraham has accepted Schultz’s apology, according to The Hollywood Reporter. On her radio show, the conservative…
The real reason Nancy Grace decided to walk away from her hit HLN show "Swift Justice" was not money or control, the New York Post reports. The real reason is more mundane: She wanted to be closer to her family,…