Bret Michaels dropped a hint during a rock performance that he may be replacing Simon Cowell on "American Idol" during the show’s next season, TMZ.com reports. According to the article, Michaels, who suffered a warning stroke last month and has…
Twentieth Television is pondering whether to take one of the few recent sitcom hits to the syndication market, although several potential buyers have advised the syndicator to wait, reports B&C. One reason for taking the ABC hit to market now would…
Sarah Ferguson tells Oprah Winfrey in her first interview since an influence-peddling scandal that she was drunk when she offered to sell access to her former husband, E! Online reports. The Duchess of York said "I was drunk" and "in…
Mexican authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Bruce Beresford-Redman, a former producer of "Survivor," in the murder of his wife, theLos Angeles Times’ L.A. Now blog reports. A judge in Cancun issued an "order of arrest" against Beresford-Redman, 39,…
Jon Lafayette has been named the new business editor at B&C. He replaces Claire Atkinson, who recently left B&C to go to the New York Post. Lafayette also worked at the Post years ago before moving on to Advertising Age. Lafayette then became one of our top…
The Chairman of the nation’s sixth largest cable MSO, Bright House Networks, is retiring at the end of the year, the company has announced. That’s Bob Miron, one of the most well-known figures in the cable business for the past four…
It’s not often that a TV network executive becomes one of the most recognizable on-air faces of the network. But that’s the case over at the Food Network. One of the judges for one of the network’s most popular programs,…
The nation’s seventh largest cable operator wants to go priviate, Multichannel News reports. The seventh largest cable MSO is Mediacom Communications, which serves 1.3 million subscribers. The article says that Mediacom founder and chairman Rocco Commisso "who took the operator…
With free on-the-go television viewing from mobile phone screens popular everywhere except the United States in Europe, things may be about to change, the New York Times reports. Resistance from operators and incompatible standards have hampered mobile-phone TV viewing in…
Comcast may add a regional sports network reports Multichannel News. According to the report, Comcast is interested in building a new network featuring the Houston Astros and Houston Rockets, . The network would start with the Rockets’ 2012-13 campaign, and would…