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Fusion, the multimedia company formed from a joint investment of Univision and Disney-ABC, is preparing an overhaul of its television business strategy. Fusion’s in-house-produced television programming will be pared back, and job cuts will be part of the TV strategy shift, sources said. The changes could be announced as early as this week.

NEW YORK (AP) — An organization that ran anti-cigarette smoking ads during the Video Music Awards has complained to MTV’s parent company about the program’s multiple references to marijuana and […]

By questioning Donald Trump about this behavior, FNC’s Megyn Kelly has assumed the role in the 2016 campaign of Edward R. Murrow, who questioned the demagoguery of Joe McCarthy in the 1950s, and by fiercely defending Kelly against Trump’s spurious attacks against her, Roger Ailes has assumed the role of William S. Paley, the legendary CBS mogul who believed in Murrow.

NEW YORK (AP) — Anticipating its relaunch with Trevor Noah as host later this month, Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” has added three new comics to its rotating cast of […]

The 22-year-old wild child flashed one of her breasts, wore outfits that showed most of her skin and traded words with Nicki Minaj. She closed the Sunday show with a performance of a new song about marijuana.

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show will expand its original content for digital platforms as new host Trevor Noah comes on board. Comedy Central has hired Baratunde Thurston to that end to oversee the expanded digital content.

USA Network will not air the Mr. Robot season finale on Wednesday as planned due to the shootings in Roanoke, Va. “The previously filmed season finale of Mr. Robot contains a graphic scene similar in nature to today’s tragic events in Virginia,” the network said in a statement. “Out of respect to the victims, their families and colleagues, and our viewers, we are postponing tonight’s episode. Our thoughts go out to all those affected during this difficult time.”

The Republican presidential front-runner-turned-TV-critic had welcomed Kelly back from a vacation Monday night by tweeting that he liked her show better while she was away. Trump said Kelly “must have had a terrible vacation” because “she’s really off her game.” He retweeted a message that referred to her as a bimbo.

Donald Trump’s surprisingly durable campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination continues to be ratings rocket fuel for TV news. An hour-long interview with Trump taped earlier in the day with CNN’s New Day co-anchor Chris Cuomo drew 1.1 million in the 9 p.m. ET time slot on Wednesday. The audience is the largest for the cable news channel in that hour since April 28, when it covered the anti-police riots in Baltimore.

The owners of the Weather Channel have hired the banks Morgan Stanley and PJT Partners Inc. to explore a sale, according to people familiar with the matter. Preliminary discussions have taken place with technology and media companies, said the people, who asked not to be named because the talks are private. Blackstone Group LP, Bain Capital LLC and Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal acquired the company for about $3.5 billion in 2008.

The head of Scripps Networks Interactive’s food lifestyle brands will remain a consultant through 2016.

Produced and directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy Newberger, Evocateur on CNN traces this blink-of-an-eye rise and fall of the earth-shaking talk show host.

Fox News Channel wins four of the past five weeks in total viewers among cable networks and all the Trump fuss lifts Megyn Kelly’s show to record numbers. Call it the Republican presidential reality show.

Nearly a quarter of consumers who subscribe to pay TV made changes to their subscriptions over the past year. But that news isn’t as bad as one might expect. According to Parks Associates, of those who made changes to their service, 11% cut or downgraded their packages — but 9% upgraded their subscriptions to include more channels, premium channels or some sort of new technology, like a DVR.