After a war of words over race in sports broke out in the wake of ESPN’s airing of the documentary “The Fab Five,” ESPN NBA analyst Jalen Rose is attempting to clarify comments he made in the film and apparently…
AT&T’s game-changing $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile, creating the largest wireless carrier in the U.S., may be all about plans for the iPhone 4G in 2012, according to the Fast Company website. The deal combining the country’s second-largest and…
New York public broadcaster WNET, which owns channels WNET-TV and WLIW-TV, plans to start a local news broadcast on the Web, although it may expand to both television stations as early as the fall, reports Elizabeth Jensen in The New…
The impact of the disaster in Japan following a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami is beginning to be felt by the domestic TV production business, B&C reports. The availability of professional products such as tape and electronic components is expected to…
"Total advertising expenditures increased 6.5 percent in 2010 and finished the year at $131.1 billion. … Ad spending during the fourth quarter of 2010 was up 7.0 percent versus last year, propelled by the long-tail of small advertisers outside the…
Gilbert Gottfrield isn’t the only celebrity who has made ill-advised jokes or comments about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the Los Angeles Times ‘ Show Tracker blog reports. Glenn Beck, 50 Cent and TV writer Alec Sulkin have also…
Netflix has outbid several networks, including HBO and AMC for a new original series to star Kevin Spacey and to be directed by David Fincher, according to our friend Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. Andreeva writes, "Negotiations are still going on,…
"Google Inc. plans to start testing a mobile-payment service at stores in New York and San Francisco within four months, letting shoppers use their phones to ring up purchases, three people familiar with the project said, Bloomberg reports. The story added,…
Comedian Gilbert Gottfried, who was fired Monday as the voice of the Aflac duck, apologized today for Twitter jokes about the disastrous earthquake and tsunami in Japan, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "I sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended…
The major cable news outlets are drawing heat for their handling of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, with TV critic Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter among the most vocal critics. “The triple threat in Japan–earthquake, tsunami, nuclear reactors…