LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - CBS claimed victory on Tuesday in the key November television sweeps period, but Fox said it was the only broadcast network to show year-on-year gains in both total viewers and the 18-49 year-old age group coveted by advertisers. Full Story »
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Newscast anchor Charles Gibson will sign off from "World News" on December 18, the show's executive producer Jon Banner wrote on the "World Newser" blog Tuesday. Full Story »
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sports media company ESPN will roll out a local website for Los Angeles on December 21, with sites for New York and other cities to follow, as it looks to boost revenue from regional advertising sales, its top executive said on Tuesday. Full Story »
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gannett Co Inc, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, will furlough workers in its U.S. local newspaper division to save money as advertising revenue declines. Full Story »
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Cable Inc is eyeing a range of ways to use its cash, from buying cable systems to paying dividends and repurchasing stock, but it has no interest in buying a cable TV network, its chief executive said on Tuesday. Full Story »
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The highly anticipated 3-D movie "Avatar" could make more than $250 million in the U.S. and Canada, and draw new audiences to 3-D films, Regal Entertainment Group's chief executive said on Tuesday. Full Story »
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's death thrust the singer to the top of yahoo.com Internet searches in 2009, putting an end to Britney Spears' four-year reign and helping bump President Barack Obama from the top 10 list. Full Story »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The last in a wave of hundreds of shareholder lawsuits over the 2001 AOL-Time Warner merger was dismissed on Monday by a New York judge who found the claim was filed too late and failed to link investor losses to statements made by AOL's auditor, Ernst & Young. Full Story »
NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Electric Co and Vivendi SA have agreed in principle to value the French company's 20 percent stake in NBC Universal at $5.8 billion, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday, paving the way for Comcast's proposed deal with GE. Full Story »
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Holiday sales of Sirius XM Radio's satellite radio players are so far matching expectations, helped in part by an advertising blitz featuring footage of Elvis Presley and Michael Jordan. Full Story »
-Yesterday's Winners: NCIS (CBS), Dancing With the Stars (ABC), NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS), The Good Wife (CBS) Full Story »
LONDON - An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England. Full Story »
Excluding adults 18-49 (which was a tie between ABC and Fox), CBS swept the week of Nov. 16, with a first-place finish in households, total viewers, adults 18-49 (tied with ABC) and adults 25-54. Comparably, CBS has now ranked first in total viewers for eight of the last nine weeks. ABC, which like CBS was consistent from the year-ago week, finished one notch below CBS in the aforementioned four categories. Full Story »
LOS ANGELES - Two Web sites that sold songs by The Beatles for 25 cents apiece should remain shut down indefinitely, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Full Story »
The season-finale of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, featuring the cast of Seinfeld, averaged 1.33 million viewers on Sunday, Nov. 22 at 9 p.m. ET -- it most-watched finale in over five years. Comparably, that built from the prior season ender (1.07 million on Nov. 11, 2007) by 260,000 viewers. The repeat at 10 p.m. was watched by an additional 716,000 viewers. Full Story »
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NEW YORK - Eight decades after pioneering the concept of broadcasting, NBC is on the verge of a startling move that illustrates broadcast television's decline. Full Story »
In support of upcoming holiday movie Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe, ABC Family will attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of Santa's elves together in one place. The event will take place at ABC Family's World Record Elf Party at New York's The Pond at Bryant Park on Monday, Dec. 7 from 12-2 p.m. ET, where Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe stars Jenny McCarthy and Dean McDermott will be on hand to help gather over 250 elves to set the new world record. Guinness World Records will hand out elf costumes to adults and children onsite at the event. ... Full Story »
-Yesterday's Winners: Dancing With the Stars (ABC), House (Fox), Two and a Half Men (CBS), The Big Bang Theory (CBS), Find My Family (ABC), CSI: Miami (CBS) Full Story »
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