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Reports Conan Planning To Exit Nbc

14th January 2010

Even as NBC executives remained stone silent on Conan O'Brien's stated refusal to go along with their plans to move...

Rather's Legal Battle With Cbs Comes To An End

13th January 2010

Hardly noticed amid the wrangling at NBC, Dan Rather's efforts to restore his reputation after being dismissed by CBS as...

Letterman "It's All About The Money"

13th January 2010

David Letterman, who knows what it is like to have a run-in with NBC executives, got off what were arguably...

Nbc Scores A Big Win With Football

13th January 2010

Football gave NBC executives something to boast about Tuesday even as they faced ridicule from within and without the company...

Jay, Conan Bite The Hand That Feeds Them

12th January 2010

NBC executives who have been pummeled by critics in recent days for their failed effort to move Jay Leno into...

Nbc To Lose Money On Winter Olympics

11th January 2010

NBC can't seem to catch a break even when it's winning. NBC Universal Sports & Olympics Chairman Dick Ebersol said...

Cowell Said To Be Determined To Quit Idol

11th January 2010

Simon Cowell is expected to leave American Idol next season in order to devote his full attention to launching a...

Jay Walking To Old Time Slot, But Where's Conan Going?

11th January 2010

Aborting after four months what it had originally promised would be a one-year incubation of The Jay Leno Show at...

Bcs Telecast Scores For Abc

8th January 2010

Demonstrating that nothing -- absolutely nothing -- can beat football on television, ABC's coverage of the BCS championship game between...

Report Leno To Return To 11 30

8th January 2010

Only days after NBC executives were putting out the word that they had no plans to make changes to their...

Nbc Again Has No. 1 Telecast -- But What Now?

6th January 2010

NBC's coverage of the final NFL game of the regular season was the most-watched telecast of the week as it...

30 Billion Videos Viewed In November, Says Study

6th January 2010

Some 170 million Americans viewed a record 30 billion videos from the principal online video websites in November, according to...

Former Time Warner Chief Levin Apologizes For Time Warner Deal

5th January 2010

On the tenth anniversary of his disastrous deal to sell Time Warner to AOL, Jerry Levin, the former CEO of...

Gma Does Quite Nicely Without Sawyer

5th January 2010

Diane Sawyer's departure from Good Morning America to anchor ABC World News has not cost GMA any viewers. In fact,...

Mpaa Criticizes New York Permit Fee

4th January 2010

The Motion Picture Association of America is balking at new permit fees being charged by some government-owned buildings in New...

Nbc To Invest In New Programs

1st January 2010

After attempting to reduce the cost of developing new programs in general and avoiding the expensive production costs of pilots...

Leno Beats Reruns -- On Nbc

31st December 2009

NBC has said all along that once television networks began airing reruns, The Jay Leno Show would shine. And Wednesday...

Football Is Nbc's Biggest Xmas Present

30th December 2009

During a typical week of pre-Christmas reruns, the broadcast networks last week saw a huge drop in viewers, save for...

Journalist Group Blasts Nbc News For "Checkbook Journalism"

29th December 2009

The ethics committee of the Society of of Professional Journalists charged Monday that NBC engaged in checkbook journalism when it...

Sunday Night Football Scores Best Ratings Ever

29th December 2009

NBC on Monday boasted that its Sunday Night Football telecast in which the Dallas Cowboys defeated the Washington Redskins 17-0...

Smith Gives In To Movie Censors Over A Couple Of Dicks

29th December 2009

Director KEVIN SMITH has been forced to change the name of his new BRUCE WILLIS cop comedy because studio bosses...

Cnn Accused Of Checkbook Journalism

28th December 2009

CNN paid for an exclusive eight-minute interview with Jasper Schuringa, the Dutch airline passenger who reportedly threw himself on Nigerian...

Its A Wonderful Life Is Still Wonderful

28th December 2009

It seems counterintuitive but the 1946 Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life, starring James Stewart, captured the majority of younger...

Why Kevin Smith Agreed To Change Title Of His Movie

24th December 2009

Kevin Smith agreed to change the title of his latest movie to Cop Out , after learning that his previous...

Leno's Rivals Begin Reruns, But His Ratings Remain Flat

24th December 2009

NBC's hope that Jay Leno's ratings would surge as competitors went into rerun mode has not materialized. All of the...

Alexis Glick Announces Resignation

23rd December 2009

Alexis Glick, the former Goldman Sacks and Morgan Stanley analyst who became an anchor on CNBC and a co-host of...

Ratings Cbs Swamps The Competition

23rd December 2009

CBS made it almost a clean sweep in last week's ratings competition. Of the top 15 entertainment shows, CBS accounted...

Leno Improves Against Reruns -- Slightly

22nd December 2009

TV analysts will be keeping an eye on The Jay Leno Show for the next few weeks as it faces...

Rihanna Battles Blizzard Conditions In Skimpy Stage Outfit

21st December 2009

RIHANNA didn't let a blizzard striking the East Coast of the U.S. interfere with her wardrobe at an open-air gig...

Fox News Has Best Year Ever

17th December 2009

Despite dire predictions at the beginning of the year that the conservative-leaning Fox News Network would face tough sledding in...