A Fox News reporter who could face jail time if she refuses to testify about her sources in the Aurora theater shooting case has won a reprieve. Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. ruled Monday that he won’t decide whether to order reporter Jana Winter to testify until he first decides whether the key clue in the case she was to testify about will be allowed as evidence. In doing so, Samour sided with an argument by Winter’s lawyers that the testimony issue isn’t “ripe” for ruling.
Dish Network is looking to quash a subpoena. In a court filing, the company says that TV networks aren’t entitled to learn whether it has plans to incorporate Aereo technology.
At a hearing to determine the fate of a man accused of extorting Stevie Wonder, the judge, district attorney and defense lawyer were shocked to find they were being surreptitiously recorded.
Ex-KYW Anchor Larry Mendte Cleared In Lawsuit
NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey man claims an insomnia cure promoted on “The Dr. Oz Show” left third-degree burns on his feet. Frank Dietl, of Southampton, N.J., filed […]
Stations Sue To Keep Retrans Info Secret
The corporate owners of four Seattle TV stations separately have sued Click Cable TV to keep records containing their financial agreements with the city-owned cable network from being released to the Tacoma News Tribune. Belo Corp., Cox Media Group, CBS Corp. and Tribune Co. are prepared to contend the retransmission consent records that detail how much they charge Click to carry KING, KIRO, KCPQ and KSTW contain protected trade secrets that are exempt from public disclosure. Fisher Communications, owner of KOMO, has also intervened in the case.
Exclusives
There’s more to Cablevision’s $1 billion channel bundling battle with Viacom than meets the eye. Many on Wall Street, skeptical of Dolan’s chances of success, think the legal volley was launched as a way for the executive to deal with a myriad of other issues hampering the company.
Cablevision Systems Corp. is claiming that Viacom Inc. sought to extract a nearly $1 billion penalty if it refused to pay for low-rated channels it did not want in order to access more popular channels such as Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon.
Los Angeles resident John Terenzio is demanding more than $5 million in a lawsuit quietly filed in San Francisco Superior Court Tuesday. Al-Jazerra announced Jan. 3 that it would pay $500 million for San Francisco-based Current TV. Terenzio alleges he first brought the idea of the Qatar-owned Al-Jazeera’s purchase of Current TV to board member Richard Blum in July, and he expected to be paid if his plan was used.
Viacom Inc.’s Philippe Dauman criticized Cablevision Corp. today for filing an “ill-advised and frivolous” antitrust lawsuit against the media company, in a dispute he said would just turn into a waste of legal fees.
The verdict came after three weeks of trial and one day of jury deliberation in a case over a 2005 licensing agreement.
The creative team behind Home Improvement has sued ABC parent company the Walt Disney Co. seeking millions of dollars in revenue for failing to properly exploit the hit 1990s sitcom.
The past few weeks have seen the satellite operator argue in federal court that ESPN failed to honor multiple “most favored nation” (MFN) obligations between about 2006 and 2009. On Wednesday, following at times biting closing arguments, the case went to a jury — a group that may not have known MFN had any application beyond international trade until entering court.
On Thursday, FilmOn claimed rights to “Aero,” and that Aereo has taken a moniker that’s confusingly similar. The new lawsuit comes six months after David was sued after attempting to redub his own service as BarryDriller.com and AereoKiller. The basis for the lawsuit comes from the allegation that months before Bamboon Labs changed its name to Aereo, FilmOn already had a hold on “Aero.”
NBC, CBS and ABC were to hold settlement talks with Dish Network regarding their litigation over the Hopper DVR. But the networks wanted to cancel and a meeting was postponed until a ruling on a preliminary injunction.
Arbitron Sues WKYC Over Data In Ad
The Gannett-owned NBC affiliate in Cleveland is being sued by Arbitron, which claims the station used data attributed to Aribitron that was not produced by the ratings company. The station does not subscribe to Arbitron radio information, but quotes “Arbitron information” in an ad campaign with webcaster Pandora.
The TV network says the satellite TV provider “deliberately failed to disclose” the automatic ad-skipping features during contract negotiations in 2011.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge holding a hearing on a lawsuit by the stars of the reality show “Sister Wives” heard arguments Thursday on whether Utah can […]
The new U.S. Spanish-language broadcast network improved its penetration in the country’s No. 3 Hispanic market by moving from low-power WJAN-CD to full-power WGEN.
Dish Network has charged CBS Corp. with censoring its CNET site. Dish said in a statement that CBS directed the tech site to no longer consider a Dish product for an award, since CBS is engaged in litigation looking to shut it down.
Liberty Media Corp. won a judge’s order for a €765 million ($999 million) judgment in its lawsuit against Vivendi SA with interest starting in December 2001, following a jury award last year. U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan approved the judgment and interest using the average rate of return on one-year Treasury bills compounded annually, according to a court filing yesterday.
Two comedians who filed the class action suit say they worked on the show Comics.TV, which has become a success, but were not paid expenses or residuals they were owed.
In an appeal to a federal judge’s ruling, Fox Broadcasting says it is not “crying wolf” about the potential disruption to the broadcast business that may come from Dish Network’s DVR-like feature that automatically skips commercials.
A former worker at Beef Products Inc. is suing ABC News, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and a food blogger for $70,000, claiming they knowingly and recklessly made untrue statements about BPI’s finely textured beef product during newscasts.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The family of teenage actress Ariel Winter agreed Wednesday to undergo counseling to try to resolve issues that led to her mother losing custody and control […]
