Percy Sutton, a politician who was Malcolm X’s lawyer and later became the first black owner of a radio station in New York City, died over the weekend, at age 89, the New York Times reports. While Manhattan Borough President…
A number of well-known programmers have deals that expire with DirecTV on Dec. 31, Multichannel News reports. They include: Rainbow Media’s national services AMC, We TV, IFC and Fuse, as well as the regional sports networks MSG and MSG Plus, the…
Fox Business Network morning anchor Alexis Glick is leaving the network, three years after she was lured away from NBC, the Los Angeles Times reports. The network said it had no immediate plans to replace her. Her “Opening Bell” morning…
Richard and Mayumi Heene, the reality-TV-obsessed parents of six-year-old Falcon ‘Balloon Boy’ Heene have been sentenced to jail for the stunt, the Associated Press reports. Richard Heene was sentenced to 90 days in jail, Mayumi 20 days. Furthermore, according to the…
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is trying to play mediator in the retransmission consent dispute between Time Warner Cable and News Corp., worried that the fight will disrupt New Year’s Day football games, the Los Angeles Times reports. In a letter…
Wolf Blitzer’s “Situation Room” will contract by an hour to make room for a new show, TVNewser reports. Early next year Rick Sanchez, who currently hosts the 3 p.m." CNN Newsroom," will add the new “Rick’s List" at 4 p.m., taking…