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In an effort to fend off multiple lawsuits and prevent its new Hopper feature from being exterminated, Dish Network may enlist in the help of a competitor. Unofficially, of course. But if this Bloomberg Businessweek report is accurate, the satellite provider may be helped by a 2008 federal appeals...

Three of the four major TV networks have sued Dish Network for copyright infringement. There's just one catch -- Dish hasn't copied a thing. Rather, the satellite service provider has gotten into trouble for giving consumers an easy way to skip commercials. From a business standpoint, Dish's (...

Television networks are shelling out the big bucks to bring the grandest names in the entertainment industry to judge their celebrated talent shows. Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMCSA) America's Got Talent on NBC has decided to bring in Howard Stern to choose the fate of the country's freshest meat, while...

Fans of The Vampire Diaries and other CW shows will soon have a reliable source for next-day video streams. In a Hulu blog post penned by Andy Forssell, SVP of Content and Distribution, the growing video site has announced that it has struck a five-year deal with The CW. Formed after UPN and The...

After a mountain of speculation, the Wall Street Journal is providing us with MORE speculation! Last March, word started to spread that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) was looking for Hollywood talent to bring fresh and original (and presumably scripted) content to YouTube. The news quickly died down after...

We noticed Fox Business Network's Eric Bolling issued a correction on his show's website today. The correction addressed a segment he did this past Tuesday on the Center for American Progress' latest report about Islamophobia titled “Fear, Inc.”. During the segment, Bolling inaccurately...

Of course, it was inevitable. As soon as Warren Buffett came out and publically said that the super-rich, like himself, should be taxed more, knee-jerk, reactionary right wingers were going to throw the “S” word at him. It is a laughable notion – one of the most successful traders in history wants...

R.E.M. once sang about this moment. “It's the end of the world as we know it,” Michael Stipe sang loudly. He repeated those words a few hundred times, just be certain that we got the message. Today, we're getting that message loud and clear. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) wants to take Hulu off the hands...

The long-awaited JJ Abrams epic* finally hits theaters today. With teaser trailers running since early last year and numerous full-length trailers and TV spots airing for the past six months, Super 8 is one of the most hyped films of the summer movie season. But it is the writer and director (JJ...

NYSE (NYSE: NYX) holders are demanding that Niederauer study the Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ) bid reports Fox news.

It seems that YouTube users' homegrown shtick is no longer enough for Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). According to the Financial Times, the company is prepared to pay “cash advances against future advertising revenues in return for lending their name to these channels and overseeing the content.” That's an...

Fox led the broadcast networks in Week 24 with a 4.0 rating (-1% yoy), supported by American Idol, Goldman Sachs reports. “Through the first seven weeks on air, Idol's ratings are down an average of 13% yoy, with the performance show down -10% yoy and the results show down -14% yoy,” Goldman Sachs...

The major broadcast networks were collectively down 32% yoy last week, facing a comparison against last year's Winter Olympics on NBC (NASDAQ: CMCSA), Goldman Sachs reports. “FOX (NASDAQ: NWSA) won the week with a 3.5 rating, up 10% yoy due to a repeat-heavy schedule last year,” Goldman Sachs...

Earlier this month the FCC said it will propose new rules governing negotiations between television broadcasters and cable providers for the carriage of their channels. The FCC is looking to prevent circumstances that outcome of broadcast channels being pulled from cable providers which, in turn,...