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Key Anchorman Re-ups at Fox News

One of the network’s key anchors has re-signed with the Fox News Channel, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Chris Wallace, son of legendary CBS newsman Mike Wallace, has re-upped with Fox through 2012, the story says. Chris Wallace anchors "Fox News…

Former ‘Survivor’ Producer Arrested by Feds. Mexican Authorities Want Him Extradited to Stand Trial On a Charge of Murdering His Wife. Chilling Details of Case Revealed

Bruce Beresford-Redman, a former producer on ‘Survivor,’ has been arrested by U.S. federal authorities. "Mexican authorities want him returned to stand trial on an aggravated homicide charge" for allegedly murdering his wife, Monica, about seven months ago at a hotel in Cancun,…

Video: Strange Bedfellows–Bristol Palin Teams with The Situation in Spot Promoting Safe Sex or Abstinence

Freedom Communications, Which Only Last Week Named Tom Herwitz to Head Its Broadcast Group, Has Put Its Eight TV Stations Up For Sale. Asking Price Is $500 Million

Freedom Communications has put its eight TV stations up for sale. Asking price is $400 million to $500 million,reports TVNewsCheck Says the article, "The asking price for the eight TV stations works out to eight to 10 times estimated 2010…

Playboy TV’s Dilemma: Too Tame vs. Other Sex-Related VOD and Too Raunchy to Attract Women. How Do They Plan to Fix This? Sounds Like They Are Trying to Snooki-ize Their Programming, With Reality Shows Such as ‘Brooklyn Kinda Love’

Playboy TV has a dilemma. Some consider them to tame, and others too raunchy. The network’s solution? A block of reality TV shows that focus on the intimate, hoping to prove more female-friendly with programs like "Brooklyn Kinda Love," a…

Hear Ye Hear Ye: Whereby and Whereas the Corporation For Public Broadcasting Expresses, In As Arcane and Indirect Language As It Can Think Of, That It’s Pissed Off About NPR Firing Juan Williams

Here’s the resolution the Corportation for Public Broadcasting has adopted, which we found at B&C’s website: "WHEREAS, The public media system is highly interdependent; and"WHEREAS,The actions of one public media stakeholder can affect the welfare of the others and the…

Oxygen Sets Rules and Audition Places and Dates For Reality Show Whose Winner Will Appear in Multiple Episodes of ‘Glee’

"The Glee Project," a reality show from Oxygen that will pick a winner to appear in a multi-episode guest-starring role in Fox’sGlee"’s third season, has set its open casting calls and requirements, reports the New York Times’ ArtsBeat blog. To…

Comcast, Government Talks Heat Up Over NBCU Acquisition; Hot Buttons are Net Neutrality, Program Access and Program Carriage

With Comcast pushing to have its take-over of NBC Universal finalized by year’s end, talks have intensified between Comcast and U.S. regulators, Reuters reports. The biggest issues concern net neutrality, program acquisition and program carriage, the article says. Says the…

Taking a Page Out of the Somerset Maugham Playbook (Hey, Isn’t That Something We All Do From Time to Time–At Least Those of Us Who’ve Heard of Him), Dan Rather’s Career Memoir Will Be Called ‘Summing Up.’ It’ll Be Out in 2012

Dan Rather will publish a memoir about his career in a book called "Summing Up" that’s due to be released in spring 2012,reports the New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. Rather, 79, said in a statement that "with the changing…

Sam Zell to Leave Tribune After Media Company Exits Bankruptcy

Real Estate Mogul Sam Zell, the real estate mogul who led an $8.2 billion leveraged buyout of Tribune in 2007 and became its chairman, said he’ll leave the company after it exits bankruptcy, reports CNBC. Zell told the cable business…