MSNBC’s David Shuster has been suspended in the wake of his suggestion on air Thursday that Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign might have “pimped out” daughter Chelsea Clinton by having her call celebrities and super-delegates on her mother’s behalf. Mr….
ABC won the Thursday-night ratings race with a new episode of “Lost,” which doubled the audience of its closest competition but dropped off slightly from its premiere numbers last week. “Lost” pulled a 6.4 rating among 18- to 49-year old…
Lack of Specific DGA Language May Delay WGA Approval Potential approval of a draft contract between the Writers Guild of America and studio heads may be delayed beyond tomorrow because a tentative Directors Guild of America agreement didn’t include enough…
The CW will stop carrying “WWE Smackdown” at the end of the 2007-08 season, World Wrestling Entertainment said late Thursday. WWE said it began talks with other networks after the CW’s exclusive negotiation period expired on Jan. 31. Among those…
MTV President Christina Norman is leaving the company at the end of the month. She said she wanted to explore something new after 17 years with MTV Networks, according to an internal announcement from Van Toffler, president of MTV Music…
Fox’s “American Idol” gained a little ground in the ratings Wednesday night with a preliminary 10.4 rating among 18-49 year olds. The talent show nudged up 3% from last week’s entry (10.1), according to preliminary Nielsen results. Following “Idol,” “Moment…
In the war for high-definition movie viewers, Netflix is trying to bust Blockbuster, Blu-ray is bruising HD DVD and Apple’s iTunes is trying to undo Amazon.com’s Unbox and Vudu. They may all want to duck, though, because the cable companies…
The player: Patrick Cosson, vice president of marketing at Vudu. The play: Mr. Cosson is helping boost the profile of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Vudu, which last year began selling set-top boxes that can instantly download both high-definition and standard-definition movies….
North American high-definition television sales grew about 60% to 10 million units in the fourth quarter as Samsung and Sony gained market share at the expense of Sharp and other manufacturers, NPD Group unit DisplaySearch said. The number of flat-panel…