With attention focused on this weekend’s funeral for pop superstar Whitney Houston, a couple of controversies have flared up — one on each coast — the Los Angeles Times reports. In Houston’s home state of New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie…
Ahead of its debut on the network, the pilot for an upcoming NBC show has been released online, reports TheWrap.com. The special release of "Awake" is part of a recent trend toward finding ways to drive audience interest before a…
A battle between Fox News Channel and the activist group Media Matters for America is heating up, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and Fox News rival MSNBC is being dragged into it. Media Matters boss David Brock has made no…
The funeral this Saturday for pop superstar Whitney Houston will be televised, according to media reports. CNN reported that the event is being made available for television and Internet outlets. The funeral will be held at New Hope Baptist Church…
Larry King and CNN have called it quits, finishing the breakup they began when King left his job as host of “Larry King Live” in 2010, The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog reports. The two sides agreed to call…
CBS Corp. Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said the company is in talks to produce original content for Netflix, reports Bloomberg. “Until they are doing 22 hours a week of premium content, we do not look at them as a…
So how do those Redbox DVD rental kiosks get movies way before a studio authorizes them for the rental market? "The kiosk company … buys Warner Bros. discs on the open market instead of accepting the studio’s insistence that it…
"Granite Broadcasting is joining with London-based Motive Television PLC to develop a system that can be used to broadcast linear channels and VOD programming to smartphones, tablets and other portable devices," reports our good friend Harry Jessell at TVNewsCheck. The…
After angry fans accused Sony Music of exploiting Whitney Houston’s death, the company said it was a mistake that the prices of two of her albums jumped just hours after her death, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog….
Barry Diller, the legendary television executive who created the Fox Network about 30 years ago, has turned his attention to a new model for distributing broadcast programming, Brian Stelter reports for The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. Diller rolled out a…