NBC Owned Television Stations and VeriFone Systems Inc. have signed a long-term agreement to put news, information and entertainment programming in more than 12,000 taxi cabs and in thousands of gas stations and other out-of-home platforms, the companies announced today….
Time Warner Cable has struck a deal with HBO to allow its subscribers to watch the pay-cable channel’s shows on mobile devices such as iPads and on computers, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. The deal comes after…
A campaign created in the name of Fox’s "Glee" announced the winners of grants totaling $1 million, Entertainment Weekly reports. The "’Glee’ Give a Note” initiative donated grants ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 to 73 schools nationwide to help rescue…
ESPN and the NCAA have extended their television rights agreement through 2023-24, reports the Associated Press. ESPN will have the network worldwide multimedia rights to 24 championships in various sports and exclusive international rights for the "March Madness" men’s basketball…
In an effort to regain the approval of its subscribers over the holidays, Netflix is offering DVD subscribers an extra disc as a freebie for orders placed during the year-end promotion, reports Bloomberg. The promotion is a reversal of Netflix’s…
CNN host Piers Morgan will answer hacking questions in front of a U.K. inquiry investigating media ethics, reports the Associated Press. A publicist for Morgan, who previously worked as a U.K. tabloid editor, confirmed that Morgan will appear next week,…
ABC was forced to reveal Christiane Amanpour’s departure from "This Week" after New York Times reporter Brian Stelter mistakenly published a tweet to his followers that had been meant as a direct message, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Stelter meant…
Fans of Ellen DeGeneres might want to watch out for a Facebook scam that has prompted her show’s producer to file a lawsuit against an anonymous person who has been posing as her manager, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Hollywood,…
A reality television star is ranked among this year’s top "shared" items — events that are shared via links among friends on sites such as Facebook, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. That reality star is Kim Kardashian,…
In the midst of a growing controversy over the TLC reality show “All-American Muslim,” another advertiser is reportedly following the lead of Lowe’s Home Improvement and pulling its ads from the show, the New York Daily News reports. The advertiser…