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Report: Amazon.com Readying ‘Free’ Video Streaming Service for Prime Members

Amazon.com may be close to unveiling a competing video streaming service to Netflix, with Engadget publishing a screen shot of the rumored service that will reportedly be free for Amazon’s Prime members. Prime subscribers pay $79 per year for free…

CNN Taps NBC News, Newsweek Veteran as New Managing Editor

CNN announced that former NBC News executive and Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker has been enlisted by CNN Worldwide as executive vice president and managing editor for the network. In this newly created position, Whitaker will lead editorial coverage across CNN’s…

Cutting the Peacock’s Wings: Iconic Bird Logo Is an Early Casualty of Comcast’s NBC Takeover

The NBC peacock has apparently gone missing from the NBC Universal logo with Comcast’s closure of its merger with the media giant, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. About 27,000 employees of NBC Universal were given a coffee…

Will Facebook Founder Join His Movie Alter-Ego on This Week’s ‘SNL’?

"Saturday Night Live" is trying to convince Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to appear in a cameo on the show alongside Jesse Eisenberg, the actor who plays him in "The Social Network," reports the New York Post’s Page Six. Zuckerberg reportedly…

AOL, Klum Partner on Wide-Ranging Online Content Project Aimed at Women

AOL is working with "Project Runway" host Heidi Klum to create original content and online videos targeted to women, reports MediaPost’s OnlineMediaDaily. Klum and Full Picture Entertainment, the producers behind "Project Runway," will create videos, blogs, photo galleries and articles…

Today’s Must-Read Report: Two of Hulu’s Owners–Disney and News Corp.–Considering Pulling Some Content From Hulu; Talk of Service Becoming an ‘Online Cable Operator’

"Fox Broadcasting owner News Corp. and ABC owner Disney are contemplating pulling some free content from Hulu, say people familiar with the matter. The media companies are also moving to sell more programs to Hulu competitors that deliver television over…

War of Words Escalates Between Rock Band, ‘Glee’ Creator

A war of words is raging between the creator of a hit TV show and a popular rock band, Rolling Stone reports. “Glee” creator Ryan Murphy lashed out in a story in The Hollywood Reporter against the band Kings of…

A TV Reunion of Sorts: Wanna Chat Online with Luke Perry and Jason Priestley? Here’s Your Chance

Luke Perry and Jason Priestley, who both became stars during the long run of "Beverly Hills, 90210," have paired up again, and you can chat with them online. This time around Perry has been directed by Priestley in an upcoming…

Netflix Subscriptions and Revenues Surge; Company Now No. 2 in Video Subscribers

Netflix is now No. 2 in U.S. video subscriptions, and is poised to become No. 1 by the middle of this year, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. Netflix surpassed 20 million subscribers at the end of 2010,…

The Most-Used In-Car App Is … (and it’s got nothing to do with navigation)

The most-used in-car app, surprisingly, has nothing to do with navigation or mapping or directions, reports our friend Jefferson Graham in USA Today. According to the story, "Pandora is the most-used in-car app, because of its user base of 80…