"After five years of trying to sell ads on television using the automated buying system that works so well for its signature search ads, Google has finally given up," reports Robert Hof at Forbes.com. The article continues, "The shutdown is…
"These are tough days for Robin Roberts," reports E! Online. "The ‘Good Morning America’ anchor’s mother, Lucimarian Tolliver Roberts, died Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012, at the age of 88, co-anchor George Stephanopoulos announced on the show Friday." The story continues,…
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ABC is in business with an alum of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” on a multicamera comedy project, Deadline.com reports. The Alphabet Network has given a put pilot commitment to “The Housewives,” a female-centric effort from ex-“SNL”-er Casey Wilson along with…
ABC’s “Good Morning America” continues to assert its newfound dominance over its NBC rival “Today,” B&C reports. Nielsen figures show that “GMA” beat “Today” by more than 520,000 total viewers for the week of Aug. 20, the story reports. It…
A hip-hop mogul who has been the longtime manager of 50 Cent, Diddy, Ja Rule and Mariah Carey was found dead today in New York in an apparent suicide, TMZ.com reports. Chris Lighty died from what is being reported as…
For the two nights of coverage of the Republican National Convention so far, Fox News Channel has been burying the competition in the ratings, Deadline.com reports. The cable news channel averaged 7.70 million total viewers Wednesday night in the 10…
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin aired her complaints on Facebook after Fox News canceled her scheduled interviews, reports TVNewser.com. In a Facebook post, Palin wrote, "I’m sorry Fox cancelled all my scheduled interviews tonight because I sure wanted to…
An 8-year-old schoolboy walking on a beach in the U.K. stumbled onto what could turn out to be a fortune in whale vomit, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reports. The boy, Charlie Naysmith, found a 1.3-pound chunk of the stuff during…
A veteran TV actor who played an iconic character on the early 1960s comedy series “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” has died, TheWrap.com reports. Steve Franken, best known for playing the dilettante Chatsworth Osborne Jr., was 80. Franken died…