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  • CBS Extends Tony Awards Through 2018

    CBS has reached a new broadcast agreement with the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing to keep the Tony Awards on the network through 2018. CBS has aired the annual kudoscast, which honors achievement on Broadway, for the past 35 years. This year the show moves back to Radio City Music Hall after two years at the Beacon Theatre. "We're pleased to renew our commitment to ...

  • ESPN to lay off hundreds

    According to media sources, the sports network ESPN is laying off up to 400 employees, mostly in technical and sales. Layoffs began yesterday and continue today. Current employees will be cut and unfilled positions may remain empty. In addition, look for some shows to be cut along with the supporting ...

  • Gray Television to go over-the-top via Syncbak

    Viewers of Gray Television's 41 TV stations will soon be able to watch their local Gray station on Internet-connected devices like the iPad when the station group completes deployment of Syncbak ...

  • Toronto Mayor Rob Ford faces calls to address crack allegations

    Toronto Mayor Rob Ford must address published reports about a video purportedly showing him smoking crack cocaine, council members said. '"He needs to come out and respond to it directly, address the people of Toronto and give his version of the story," Councilor Peter Milczyn said. "Either he's adamant that it's untrue or he has another explanation." Ford ...

  • TVB wins broadcasting right of World Cup 2014

    (5 mins ago) TVB (0511) won the right to of FIFA World Cup in 2014 for HK$400 million. General manager Mark Lee Po-on said the exclusive right includes all 64 matches on pay TV channels. Only 22 of these matches will be aired on free channels, including six core matches and daily highlights, on both digital and analog ...


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Movie Review

Desperate Measures

Barbet Schroeder's "Desperate Measures" gets under your skin from the get-go, and not in a good way. In the opening sequence, two men are stealing into an FBI office to tap into the government's computer. The sequence is shot with dark shadows, moody music, and odd angles; on it's own terms, it's effective and suspenseful. Except for . . . the damn credits. It is rare that I would ever complain ab ... ...

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  • ABC Moving This Week From Newseum Al Jazeera Moving In

    studio back to the Washington bureau from the Newseum, and Al Jazeera America will be moving into ABC's old digs there. The contract with the Newseum was up at the end of May, according to those sources, and ABC has a Washington studio at the bureau -- the smaller one not being used by ESPN -- that it can use for guests and the ...

  • Internet Archive Expands Availability of TV News Footage

    The Internet Archive, one of the world's largest public digital libraries, has received $1 million in funding from John S. and James L. Knight Foundation that will allow the organization to expand its research library and make hundreds of thousands of U.S. television news programs available.The funding will expand the TV News Search & Borrow service, which now includes 400,000 ...

  • “The Voice” the 1 in 18-49

    NBC's Monday edition of "The Voice" has finished #2 among primetime programs on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox in adults 18-49 for the week of May 13-19, according to "live plus same day" viewing data from Nielsen Media Research, leading NBC to an average 1.7 rating, 5 share in adults 18-49 and 5.5 million viewers overall for the week. In adults 18-34, the Monday ...

  • ESPN laying off hundreds

    Disney's ESPN hasn’t had big layoffs since 2009. But with rivals such as Fox Sports 1 looming, NBC Sports Network and others new on the scene, ESPN has been spending big money lately to on sports rights. They don't come without a cost: ESPN's 12-year deal announced in November to televise the new college football playoff system will be worth about $470 million annually. The ...

  • OKC’s TV news excels in another disaster

    In Oklahoma, particularly in the springtime, dangerous weather is a part of life. And so are the local TV news stations in my home state. Chances are good that the bottom corner of your TV screen come May has the familiar map of the state covered with red, yellow, and green Doppler radar images on loop denoting the severity of the latest thunderstorm, flash flood, or tornado warning in your ...

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