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Conan Back at Universal Over the Weekend With His Stage Show; Zings NBC

Conan O’Brien performed at the Gibson Amphitheatre over the weekend, just a short walk from his former "Tonight Show" studios. MTV News was there and wrote this: "This is my first time back at Universal Studios since I lost my job,"…

NBC Partners with YouTube for ‘America’s Got Talent’ Auditions

NBC has partnered with YouTube for "America’s Got Talent" auditions, according to James Hibberd at The Hollwood Reporter. Hibberd says in his article that starting today, Monday, April 26, "[A]cts can upload their videos onto a special page on the video-sharing…

Hitler Parodies That Were Knocked Off of YouTube Shouldn’t Have Been

TVWeek Open Mic Blogger Aaron Barnhart urges those folks whose parody filmclips of the Adolf Hitler film "Downfall" were pulled off YouTube to get busy with a "counter-takedown." Barnhart makes a good case. Click here to read it.

‘Avatar’ Brings in Another $130 Million, This Time From DVD and Blu-Ray Sales; Even in 2D It’s the Fastest-Selling Blu-Ray Disc Ever

Since April 22 through Sunday, April 25 movie box-office champ "Avatar" added another $130 million in sales, this time from DVDs and Blu-Ray discs, according to the Associated Press. ‘Avatar’ sold 4 million DVDs and 2.7 million Blu-Ray discs, the…

Yahoo News, Which Already Reaches 40 Million Month Unique Visitors, To Beef Up By Hiring More Journalists

Yahoo News, already a major user destination, is planning on hiring more journalists, according to Mediaweek. According to the article, " ‘Historically, our content has been from third parties, and a lot of it has been commodity news,’ said Jimmy…

‘Idol’ Contestant Tim Urban Would Welcome Toothpaste Commercial

Tim Urban, who was voted off "American Idol," last week told reporters that he’d welcome being in a toothpast commercial, according to MSNBC. As viewers of the show know, for weeks Urban was known as the contestant who always smiled,…

Cable Operators Looking at Next-Gen Broadband Speeds Up to 5 Gigabits Per Second

Cable operators are looking at next-generation broadband speeds up to 6 gigabits per second, Multichannel News reports. That would be possible if there was an entirely new way of conceiving data-over-coax transmission, the article says, noting that the entity investigating…

Some Primetime Broadcast Viewing Erosion Blamed on Video Games

Some erosion in primetime viewing is due to increased usage of video games, according to Nielsen Games measuring division, says Media Daily News. Says the article, "Television viewer erosion is the result of a fractionalized viewership — which is due,…

McCartney, John Legend, Green Day Among a Number of Upcoming Concerts on Cable

Concerts by Paul McCartney, John Legend and Green Day are among the events featured on cable in May and June. Specifically, the concert series is on HDNet. HDNet has announced its concert series for May and June: Sunday, May 2 Paul…

Report: No Charlie Sheen Equals No ‘Two and a Half Men’

As Charlie Sheen’s fate on "Two and a Half Men" is still unknown, executives at Warner Bros. aren’t looking at a failsafe solution if the star doesn’t come back, Radar Online reports. According to Radar, a WB executive said "Men"…