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 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 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…
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…
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 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.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…
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…
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 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…