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What’s Barbara Walters Saying About Her Retirement? Not Much

Despite reports last week that Barbara Walters is retiring, she gave a long non-answer on ABC’s "The View" about her future, reports TVNewser. "I have no announcements to make," she said. “Nothing is going on. Even though our programs have…

HBO Developing Project Based on First Person to Walk Around the Globe

HBO Films is working on an adaptation of the book "The Man Who Walked Around the World," which is about David Kunst’s feat of becoming the first person to circumnavigate the globe by foot, reports Deadline.com. After the Apollo moon…

Cable Ratings Soared on Sunday Night, Which Used to Be a Broadcast Stronghold

Ratings for programs shown on cable TV soared this past Sunday night. Sunday used to be a stronghold of broadcast TV. To begin, the History channel announced: "The much anticipated finale of History’s ‘The Bible’ on Sunday March 31st from 8-10 p.m….

Video: Leno and Jimmy Fallon Sing Duet About ‘Tonight Show’ Rumors; It Aired Monday Night as a Bridge Between Leno’s Show and Fallon’s

Reality TV Star, 21, Found Dead With Two Others

A young star of a controversial reality show was found dead this morning with two other people, according to media reports. The body of Shain Gandee, 21, one of the stars of the MTV reality show “Buckwild,” was found along…

How Low Can They Go? Slow Sunday for Broadcast Nets

With CBS’s Sunday viewership measurement tweaked by its live coverage of the “March Madness” NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship, the Tiffany Network cruised to an apparent easy win in the ratings. As for the other broadcast networks, it was…

‘March Madness’ Viewership Surges

Coverage of the “March Madness” NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament saw a surge in viewers over the weekend. CBS Communications Group announced that Turner Sports and CBS Sports coverage of Sunday’s regional finals was up 25% from a year…

Wow: Federal Appeals Court Backs Barry Diller’s Aereo in Dispute With Local TV Stations

A federal appeals court today issued a key ruling in the Aereo case, rejecting an appeal by television station owners of an earlier ruling that enabled the startup to stream local TV networks via its website and app, reports USA Today….

CBS News Veteran Jumps to ABC News

ABC News announced today that it has hired a veteran of CBS News as an anchor and chief national correspondent. ABC News chief Ben Sherwood made the announcement that the network hired Byron Pitts, The Huffington Post reports. Pitts is…

Video: Basketball Analyst’s Race-Oriented Remark Sets Off Firestorm

CBS basketball analyst Doug Gottlieb, described as the only non-African-American sitting on the network’s panel analyzing its Sweet 16 coverage, set off a Twitter firestorm over the weekend when he said he was there to offer "a white man’s perspective,"…