Delivering the keynote address Tuesday at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas, NAB CEO Gordon Smith spoke strongly about protecting broadcasters’ spectrum, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “We are in full battle mode to protect broadcasters from…
Comedy Central has tapped comedians Adam Nee and Ryan Judd to develop, write, direct and star in the half-hour show "Geniuses," reports Deadline.com. Nee and Judd have gained followers for their work on the Web series "Clark Kent Has a…
Sharon Osbourne, one of the co-hosts of CBS’s "The Talk," complained on Twitter that she had been duped by people she believed were handling her taxes, after the IRS said she and her husband Ozzy owe more than $1.7 million…
Plans for the “24” movie appear to be firming up, with Kiefer Sutherland saying the movie will be released in 2012. Now the project has another important puzzle piece in place, with super-producer Brian Grazer joining up, Entertainment Weekly reports…
DirecTV launches HBO’s new online video destinations April 12, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The pay TV provider will launch HBO GO and Max GO, which give subscribers immediate access to all episodes and all seasons of HBO shows along…
Reflecting the spread of smartphones, Americans are spending 20% more time watching or listening to TV, radio and the Internet versus 10 years ago, reports The New York Times. The story says that consumers spent an average of 8 hours…
As premium video-on-demand becomes closer to reality, with a plan in the works that would allow consumers to pay $30 to watch movies on their televisions just eight weeks after they open in theaters, the largest U.S. theater chains are…
Consumers with iPads or iPhones will be able to watch ESPN on their devices, but there’s a catch: The viewers must also be subscribers to a pay-television service such as Time Warner Cable, reports Bloomberg. The service, called "WatchESPN," will…
In a dispute over whether cable companies can allow their customers to watch cable networks over their iPads, both Time Warner Cable and Viacom filed lawsuits on Thursday, seeking to resolve the question, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder…
Three top television station groups are working together to offer a syndicated, interactive daily news show that will air this fall, reports TVNewsCheck. The program, "RightThisMinute," will use social media, citizen journalism, the Internet and mobile technology, the story says….