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HBO Slates Special to Fill Void Left by ‘Hard Knocks’

With the 2011 edition of "Hard Knocks" becoming a casualty of the NFL lockout, HBO will present a 90-minute special about the history of the NFL reality show, reports NFL Films. Via Twitter, NFL Films revealed that on Wednesday, Aug….

Oprah Winfrey Hit With Lawsuit

Oprah Winfrey has been sued by a New Jersey woman, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. Simone Kelly-Brown and the motivational communication services company Own Your Power Communications filed a trademark infringement suit alleging that Winfrey stole the motto "Own Your…

PBS Plans American Invasion in Britain

PBS will bring American public broadcasting to the U.K. via a digital channel that will show its older and current shows in Britain, reports Elizabeth Jensen in The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. PBS, which is known for airing…

Bad Omen for Google TV: More Set-Top Boxes Are Being Returned Than Kept

More Logitech set-top boxes running Google TV have been returned than have been kept, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Technology blog. In response, Logitech is dropping the price of its Revue set-top boxes to $99 from $250 "to accelerate adoption…

More Bad News for Oprah

Oprah Winfrey, who has turned her attention in recent weeks to trying to improve the fortunes of her ratings-challenged OWN network, is having a bad week, the New York Post reports. Visits to Oprah.com have declined by nearly 50% since…

Google’s YouTube Ready to Go Mainstream With Movie-Rental Business; Android Devices Targeted

Google is positioning YouTube’s new movie-rental business for a big push, putting the service on Android phones and tablets, reports the New York Post. The plan is to help drive sales of Android-powered devices via the service, similar to how…

Amazon Raises the Heat on Netflix With NBCUniversal Deal

Amazon.com has struck a deal with NBCUniversal to add part of Universal Pictures’ film library to its streaming video service, ratcheting up Amazon’s challenge to Netflix, reports The New York Times. Amazon wants to build a library of video for…

Judge Threatens to Reject Comcast-NBCU Merger

A federal judge has threatened to pull the plug on Comcast’s acquisition of NBCUniversal, The Wall Street Journal reports. Judge Richard Leon criticized the antitrust settlement that allowed the merger to go ahead. The merger, announced in December 2009, was…

OMG. Latest Bombshell in News Corp. Scandal: Second Murdered Girl’s Family Had Phone Targeted to Be Hacked

In a shocking development in the News Corp, phone-hacking scandal in the U.K., it’s been revealed that a second murdered girl’s family had a phone targeted for hacking by a now-closed tabloid newspaper owned by News Corp. "Sara Payne, whose…

Time Warner Cable Drops Subs, Picks Up Broadband Customers

Time Warner Cable revealed that its cable TV subscriptions shrank considerably during the second quarter, while it added broadband customers and saw a 35% surge in business services revenue, Multichannel News reports. Cable subs fell by 128,000, according to the…