"The day when commercials are indistinguishable from the programs they support finally arrived — just before 10 p.m. Eastern on Thursday night [March 11]." That’s the provocative first sentence in an article from Brian Steinberg at our sibling publication, Ad Age….
ABC News paid $200,000 to a family whose toddler had been killed. The mother of the toddler is the one accused of the murder, so the $200,000 has gone to her legal costs, which come to $275,000 thus far. The murdered…
Federal Communications Commissioner Julius Genachowski will give a keynote speech at the National Association of Broadcasters Annual Convention in Las Vegas in April, B&C reports. The speech will be of key interest to broadcasters in light of the FCC’s recently…
Jim Cramer’s website, TheStreet.com, is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Post reports. The investigation is into the accounting practices of Promotions.com, which used to be a subsidiary of TheStreet.com TheStreet.com itself revealed the investigation…
By Chuck Ross We know what you’re going to say. Davy Crockett just didn’t die–it was the actor who played him, Fess Parker. But to millions of boys who grew up in the mid to late 1950s, Parker WAS Crockett…
More accusations in the war between Google’s YouTube and Viacom. YouTube is saying that Viacom was secretly uploading videos to its site at the same time Viacom was complaining that the videos were appearing on the site, says a BBC…
The Federal Communications Commission has called for public opinion on the propposed Comcast-NBC Universal deal, B&C reports. Says the report, "That public, which will include plenty of industry and activist group reps, have until May 3 to weigh in with…
Discovery Communications is teaming with Yahoo! in major promotion, reports Multichannel News. The promotion starts on Saturday, March 20th, and it is to push Discovery’s big spring programming effort, the 11-part series "Life." According to the article, "In a first,…
It will be a red letter day in the history of consumer electronics this coming Wednesday night, March 24th, when New York’s two professional hockey teams, the New York Rangers and the New York Islanders skate against one another at…
Looks like the cast of ‘Glee’ is going to be on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" next month, according to Michael Ausiello at EW.com. Ausiello writes, "According to an Oprah insider, the talk show titan’s April 7 show will be devoted…