Matthew Perry’s Death From Ketamine Sees LAPD & DEA Team-Up For Investigation On ‘Circumstances’

Over six months after the Friends star died and was laid to rest in L.A.’s  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, the Los Angeles Police Department and the federal Drug Enforcement Agency are still looking into what happened last October.

Walter Cade To Lead Sales For NBCU Local Chicago

The veteran Chicago-area sports and media executive will continue leading sales partnership development for WMAQ-WSNS and NBC Sports Chicago.

Anderson Cooper Pays Tribute To Former Assistant Joey Pintauro

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’60 Minutes’ Celebrates 50 Years As America’s Top News Program

With Season 56 in the history books, Executive Producer Bill Owens talks about the news magazine’s 50-season winning streak and what viewers can expect when Season 57 starts in the fall.

Fremantle Increases Global Ad Exec Lineup

Matt Katrosar is named SVP of global ad sales and strategy. It also expands its global channels division, hiring Keith Gross, James Meyer and Liat Abada. L-r: Katrosar, Goss, Meyer and Abada.

Univision’s Ilia Calderón To Receive 2024 Paul White Award

Industry Journalist, PR Exec John Wolfe, Dies At 72

Ex-KNBC News Producer Makes Plea Deal With Feds Over Child Pornography Charges

WDAF Kansas City Adds Brea Love To Anchor Desk

Steve Carrell To Star In Upcoming Bill Lawrence Comedy At HBO

Steve Carell is set to star in a new single-camera half-hour comedy series from Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses. The currently untitled project has been given a straight-to-series order from HBO.

Peter Caranicas, Longtime Variety Editor Known For His Expertise In Production And Technology, Dies At 80

Zeam Media Appoints Sandie Trombert CMO

Zeam Media, a provider of OTT solutions as well as the newly launched streaming platform Zeam, and backed by Gray Television, the National Association of Broadcasters and Morgan Murphy Media, […]

News Director Bernice Kearney Leaves KPRC Houston

Bernice Kearney, who has been at the helm of Graham Media’s NBC affiliate KPRC Houston as news director for the past 18 months, is now moving on.

Fraud Trial To Begin For Ozy Founder Carlos Watson

Watson’s lawyer has argued that many other media leaders lured investors with “puffing and bluffing,” and that he is being singled out because he is Black.

Diane Ford, Stand-Up Comic On HBO Specials And ‘An Evening At The Improv,’ Dies At 68

Paramount Names Jonathan Bingaman President, Domestic Multi-Platform Licensing & Distribution

Bingaman has been executive VP, domestic licensing and distribution for Paramount’s CBS Media Ventures unit. In his new post, Bingaman will be responsible for sales to SVOD, FVOD, cable and digital outlets.

 

Conservative Media Personality Janelle King Appointed To Georgia State Election Board

ATLANTA (AP) — A media personality who co-founded a conservative political action committee has been appointed to a seat on the Georgia State Election Board, which is responsible for developing […]

Alice Stewart Dies: CNN Political Commentator Was 58

Dabney Coleman, Actor Who Specialized In Curmudgeons, Dies

For two decades Coleman labored in movies and TV shows as a talented but largely unnoticed performer. That changed abruptly in 1976 when he was cast as the incorrigibly corrupt mayor of the hamlet of Fernwood in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, a satirical soap opera that was so over the top no network would touch it, forcing producer Norman Lear to syndicate it. Coleman won a an an Emmy Award for best supporting actor in Peter Levin’s 1987 small screen legal drama Sworn to Silence. Some of his recent credits include Ray Donovan and a recurring role on Boardwalk Empire, for which he won two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Coleman was 92.

Paramount’s Communications & Corporate Marketing Chief To Exit

Julia Phelps, Paramount Global’s EVP, chief communications and corporate marketing officer will leave the company at the end of May. Her group — which encompasses corporate communications, marketing, social impact, ESG, creative & strategy, production, board relations and events and brand experience — will report to studio chief Brian Robbins on an interim basis.

Tom Wills To Retire After Nearly 50 Years At WJXT Jacksonville

Veteran NBC News Correspondent Cynthia McFadden Is Leaving

WTTG Washington Reporter Covers Lockdown At High School While His Son Shelters Inside

Reyna Revelle Joins WISH Indianapolis News

Jim Danner Leaves KGBT Harlingen, Texas

Former WPXI Pittsburgh Reporter Dee Thompson Dies At 84

‘General Hospital’ Shakes Up Writers Room; Patrick Mulcahey Is Out As Co-Head

Former KSAT Sportscaster Greg Simmons Gets Probation In DWI Case

Susan Tran Joining WDVM Hagerstown As Evening Anchor

Dylan Robichaud Named Morning Meteorologist At WBNS Columbus