The watchdog group condemns the fast-food chain’s sponsorship of the VH1 program and recommends patronizing Wendy’s as an alternative “until McDonald’s returns to being a responsible advertiser.”
NEW YORK (AP) — ESPN says it has suspended sportscaster Stephen A. Smith for a week because of comments about domestic abuse suggesting women should make sure they don’t provoke […]
John Malone’s Liberty Media Corp. has started the process of spinning off its cable assets through a stock dividend to its shareholders to form a new listed company called Liberty Broadband. Liberty Broadband, in a regulatory filing, says the stock dividend would be worth up to $4.8 billion and Malone would retain a voting interest of 47.3%.
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VH1’s Dating Naked is the latest example of reality television’s newest trend: Nudity is hot, no longer confined to latenight premium cable. Leading the way is Discovery’s Naked and Afraid, on which a man and woman who don’t know each other fend for themselves in the wilderness for three weeks without a stitch between them. That program’s success since its June 2013 premiere begat Dating Naked and TLC’s real estate show Buying Naked, with more in the planning stages.
The new weekly talk show will tackle the most important issues affecting the weather community. It premieres Sunday, July 20.
NEW YORK (AP) — With Ariana Grande hitting it big in the music world this summer, her time as a star on children’s television is about to become history. Nickelodeon […]
NEW YORK (AP) — To get back into television, John Walsh had to relinquish some of the control that he’d grown used to. Walsh, who chased fugitives for 26 years, […]
Scripps Nets Looking For Corporate Partner
Pure-play cable company Scripps Networks Interactive is shopping for a partner, according to well-placed sources. Ken Lowe, CEO of Scripps, which owns HGTV, Food Network and Cooking Channel, has been holding conversations about such a deal at the Sun Valley mogulfest, these sources say.
The company that took down Blockbuster and transformed how people watch movies now eyes TV, but there’s one major threat to its long-term survival. Netflix, which makes up nearly one-third of all Internet traffic, relies on the Internet pipes ruled by such companies as Comcast and Verizon.
The latest in a recent slew of cable network rebrands, the replacement for Bio posts huge gains in primetime among 18-49s. Of course, the goal is lasting growth.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — BBC America is bringing the critically acclaimed dramas “Orphan Black” and “Broadchurch” back for new seasons in 2015. The cable channel said Wednesday that the […]
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Discovery Communications says its fitness network will undergo a transformation to Discovery Life Channel early next year. The new network will focus on ordinary people […]
The Comcast CEO is looking to fortify his company for an increasingly competitive era. He believes that the $45-billion takeover of Time Warner Cable will help do that, particularly as major technology companies, including Google Inc., Apple Inc. and Amazon.com, try to crowd into America’s living rooms to control the TV-watching experience.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dust yourself off and try again Lifetime Network: Zendaya will no longer play Aaliyah in an upcoming film. The 17-year-old Disney Channel star said Sunday that […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — After nearly four hours of prizes, performances and the occasional bleeped expletive, the 2014 BET Awards came to a close. When it was all over, Pharrell […]
If the ongoing drama between content providers and cable companies were a TV Western, experts say there would only be a few shoot-outs — and a lot of tumbleweeds. Unlike with smartphones and social media, there won’t be a new sheriff in town anytime soon.
There is no summer vacation from escapist entertainment. The opposite is true. In summer, multiplex marquees are filled with action films and superheroes, and beach books are lighter than air. Summer television is no exception, and cable is where much of it lives. The networks pay lip service to programming year-round, but the cable channels practice it.
