STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. has severed ties with Hulk Hogan amid a report that one of the biggest stars in professional wrestling history used racial slurs […]
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NEW YORK (AP) — HBO says it has struck a multi-year, multi-platform deal with the multi-faceted Bill Simmons. Under the deal, which begins in October, HBO will be Simmons’ exclusive […]
Tom Calderone, president of VH1, is exiting his post after seven years. Prior to his role as president, Calderone served as general manager of VH1 for MTV Networks, where he started working in 1998.
Eighteen months after its launch, Fusion, the Univision-ABC News joint venture cable network, is still trying to carve out its identity in a crowded field of programmers vying for the attention of millennials. It is struggling to seize the fragmented, short-span attention of its target demographic.
President Barack Obama criticized the media Tuesday for letting its fascination with “shiny objects” distract from more important issues. “The media are a bunch of different medias. Some get on my nerves more than others,” the president said during an appearance on The Daily Show, his last with Jon Stewart as host. Stewart had asked Obama whether the media was “inflammatory” and “focused on the wrong things.”
Bill Simmons, Keith Olbermann and Colin Cowherd are leaving the sports network as it contends with increases in production costs and rights fees.
NEW YORK (AP) — Jon Stewart enters the home stretch of his 16 years on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” on Monday, with 12 more nights of jokes at the […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Miley Cyrus is twerking back to the MTV Video Music Awards as the show’s host. The 25-year-old singer-actress revealed on her social media accounts Monday that […]
NEW YORK (AP) — After weeks in limbo stemming from revelations of sexual misconduct by one of its stars, the TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting” is officially dead. […]
Discovery’s “Shark Week” again took a big bite out of the competition, with this year’s edition ranking as the highest-rated ever in many demos and lifting the network to No. 1 finishes for all of television in some of these categories.
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump found a new home for the Miss USA pageant after NBC dumped it because of his comments on Mexican immigrants, but few television viewers […]
ESPN is looking to retain its primacy even as viewers disperse across a more distributed content landscape, and Derek Thompson reports on how it’s planning for that future. Mobile will be a big part of that picture.
