Donald Trump

The real-estate mogul and reality TV host — who kept viewers and NBC guessing until the last minute whether he would make a serious run at the Oval Office — got a sizeable pay raise to renew his contract to host The Celebrity Apprentice for another two years. NBC Universal agreed to pay Trump and co-producer Mark Burnett an estimated $160 million over two years, according to sources familiar with the contract.

The Celebrity Apprentice star says he “can’t rule out anything” in terms of a possible late entry if none of the Republican candidates is to his liking.

Donald Trump told an audience of NBC advertisers at the network’s upfront presentation in New York today that he’ll drop his potential presidential bid.

From a First Amendment perspective, the Equal Time Rule is very much like the repealed Fairness Doctrine. It strips away broadcasters’ editorial discretion, forcing them to take people off the air they would rather not and putting people on the air they otherwise might not. And it’s discriminatory. It applies only to broadcasters. Let’s get rid of it.

NBC is continuing Donald Trump’s television series Celebrity Apprentice after the New York real estate developer said he intends to run for president.A spokeswoman for the network’s entertainment division, Rebecca Marks, said “Nothing’s changed,” when asked about the future of the program. She declined to elaborate.

If a deal is in place for another Celebrity Apprentice season, Donald Trump’s attention-grabbing flirtation with a presidential bid is nothing more than a publicity stunt, Lawrence O’Donnell, host of MSNBC’s The Last Word, claimed on his show.

A decision by real estate tycoon and reality TV star Donard Trump to declare his intention to seek the Republican nomination for president next month could disrupt the NBC’s plans to broadcast future seasons of his show, The Apprentice, because of concerns that other candidates could request equal airtime under the law.