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Drama That Flopped This Season on Broadcast TV May Take Off Again Online

We may not have seen the last of a heavily hyped network drama that crashed and burned on broadcast television this season. Deadline.com reports that ABC’s “Pan Am” could take flight again on Amazon, which is looking to try its…

Cable Show: Media Leaders Seek Faster Conversion to ‘TV Everywhere’

The media industry sent a clear signal to cable operators today at the Cable Show, being put on in Boston this week by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, Deadline.com reports. The message: Speed up the arrival of a “TV…

CNN’s Prime-Time Ratings Sink to 20-Year Low — and a TV Expert Tries to Explain

CNN’s prime-time viewership sank to its lowest number in more than 20 years last week, triggering speculation about what has gone wrong for the onetime cable news leader. CNN averaged only 395,000 viewers in prime time for the week of…

Glenn Beck’s New Studio Includes Replica of Oval Office (Here’s the Video)

Former Fox News host and GBTV founder Glenn Beck unveiled his new Dallas studio in a video clip, showing off a replica of the Oval Office, reports TVNewser.com. Beck’s oval office includes replicas of the Resolute Desk and the Oval…

NAB Takes FCC to Court Over New Rules

The National Association of Broadcasters is taking the Federal Communications Commission to court in an effort to put the brakes on proposed rules governing disclosure of political advertising rates, Adweek reports. The FCC voted last month to require that TV…

As Facebook Share Price Free-Falls, SEC Plans to Investigate ‘Issues’ in Company’s IPO

Facebook’s much-hyped initial public offering hasn’t exactly gone according to plan — at least not for small investors. The stock price fell further today, and that’s the least of the company’s problems, Deadline.com reports. The story reports: “SEC Chairman Mary…

Cable Show: Verizon Wireless Rolls Out ‘Viewdini’ Mobile Search App for Streaming Video

Verizon Wireless unveiled a new app that enables mobile device users to search across a range of providers for streaming video, PC Magazine reports. “Dubbed viewdini, the app will search across Comcast Xfinity, Hulu Plus, mSpot, and Netflix for movies,…

It Turns Out Even MTV Has Its Limits — Cable Channel Scraps Reality Show After Controversial Subject Matter Triggers Outrage

MTV has scrapped a reality project after a casting call for the project prompted outrage, reports the New York Post. The program intended to track virgins as they lost their virginity. The casting call was looking for adults 18 years…

Cable Show Update: Head of Time Warner Cable Sides With TV Networks on Ad-Skipping Technology

Time Warner Cable Chief Executive Glenn Britt expressed disapproval over Dish Network’s ad-skipping technology, putting himself on the side of television networks that want to kill the service, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder. Dish’s Auto Hop could damage…

Illeana Douglas on Her Branded Web Series: ‘It’s time to either move on and make it a TV show … or try to work on something else’

A Web series fronted by actress Illeana Douglas will end after its fourth season, which is set to launch this fall, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series is the Ikea-branded "Easy to Assemble, which features a fictionalized version of…