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Critics of WWE's Jack Swagger, Zeb Colter angle show double standard

2013-02-20 09:28:00

On Tuesday, WWE, through�Brian�Flinn, WWE’s senior VP of marketing and communications, issued an email statement to the Hollywood Reporter concerning WWE superstar Jack Swagger and manager Zeb Colter. Several blogs, critics and media outlets have...

WWE and E! to present Rolling Stones Live Pre-Show

2012-12-04 12:38:00

On Raw, you may have noticed commercials for a Rolling Stones concert, "One More Shot," which will air on pay-per-view live on Dec. 15 at 9 p.m. The concert takes place at the Prudential Center in New Jersey. WWE has now anounced that a one-hour pre-...

MWENC - WHITE SPACE TEST - PP-2347 - Comedy Central, MTV, VH1, other Viacom channels come off DirecTV

2012-07-18 10:37:00

DirecTV subscribers have lost"SpongeBob SquarePants," "The Daily Show" and "Mob Wives." Unable to reach a deal with Viacom, parent of several popular cable channels, including MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and VH1, DirecTV is no longer carrying the...

Why Viacom will win in its fight with DirecTV: Jon Stewart, SpongeBob and original content

2012-07-11 14:11:00

Media companies routinely play chicken�in negotiations over such�issues as retransmission fees and bundling, terms that mean next to nothing to their customers until one of the companies they subscribe to lets things get out of hand. Usually, that...

Free enterprise on trial -- who bears the risks?

2012-01-25 00:00:00

As Newt Gingrich lashes out at "liberal elites," Mitt Romney is casting the 2012 campaign as "free enterprise on trial" -- and Mr. Romney defines free enterprise as achieving success through "risk-taking." U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donahue,...

August's best political comedy

2011-08-29 11:53:00

About the blogger:�Amy Bree Becker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mass Communication & Communication Studies at Towson University. Her research considers the impact of political comedy and political entertainment on everyday life.� She...

Lt. governor draws 40% of funds from outside Maryland

2002-08-14 00:00:00

Democrat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is collecting a significantly greater share of her campaign contributions from out of state than Republican Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., according to an analysis of fund-raising reports. Almost 40 percent of the $6.7...

Will ABC sack 'Monday Night Football'?

2004-08-23 00:00:00

Is Walt Disney Co. running out the clock on "Monday Night Football" on ABC? The 34-year-old sports classic is ABC's most popular and longest-running prime-time program -- a tradition that began in 1970 when ABC's legendary sports producer Roone Arledge...

Black cable channel debuts today

2004-01-19 00:00:00

Stewart meets with probation officials

2004-03-08 14:34:00

Style guru's outlook bleak

2004-03-09 00:00:00

Martha Stewart began the next chapter of her stranger-than-fiction business story yesterday by thanking her supporters after appearing before a probation officer - three days after her felony conviction helped make her, on paper, $213 million poorer. But...

Developers to propose convention hotel

2002-11-13 00:00:00

A proposal for a major convention hotel to be built adjacent to the Baltimore Convention Center - on a city-owned parking lot that has seen grand ideas come and go - is to be unveiled at a City Hall news conference today. Black Entertainment Television...

Economists and media companies are cautiously optimistic that advertising spending will grow modestly. Ratings were up in the first quarter for kids' channel Nickelodeon, home of "SpongeBob SquarePants," allowing parent Viacom Corp. to raise its ad rates.

2013-05-03 12:36:00

Bree Andrews, of Nickelodeon Games, pulls stubborn weeds out of a butterfly garden where she and several Nickelodeon employees help build at the back of Thomas Jeffereson Elementary School in Burbank on Friday, April 19, 2013.

2013-04-19 00:00:00

A federal judge in New York sided with YouTube, once again, in the long-running $1-billion copyright infringement suit brought by Viacom Inc.

2013-04-18 16:09:10