Tick-tock goes the Federal Communication Commission’s merger clock counting the days the agency has spent reviewing the proposed Comcast-NBC Universal merger. The FCC says it tries to act on merger applications within 180 days. The clock is now at “Day 215″ — more than a month of working days past its self-professed goal. (more)
Not all Alaskans love Sarah Palin, but tourism workers in the state are hoping their former governor’s television show will convince Americans from the lower 48 to head north. (more)
In a perfect world, free speech would be reserved for the federal government and elitists who are exempt from regulatory mandates, according to West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller. Apparently, he feels that political discourse in America has run amok because of the opinionated programming that appears on Fox News and MSNBC. (more)
Time Warner Cable and Cablevision Systems both grew profits despite losing subscribers in the third quarter, as premium phone, internet and television services allowed both companies to squeeze more out of each customer. (more)
GOP Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell called out a public access cable television station in Delaware for not running a 30-minute ad Sunday night or Monday morning, but a station executive told The Daily Caller the Tea Party favorite’s campaign is to blame this time around. (more)
It took nearly three hours to get to it, but Jon Stewart did have a point Saturday at the rally/concert/comedy show he organized on the National Mall, which drew a crowd estimated to be between 100,000 and 200,000. (more)
White House gatecrashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi say they want to “return to who we were.” “We’ve been the “it couple” for the past decade,” Michaele tells Bernard Goldberg of HBO’s “Real Sports” in a profile of their charity, “America’s Polo Cup,” airing tonight. Their annual polo match, currently under investigation by the state of Virginia for possible fraud, was bare-bones this year with sponsors and contenders from India backing out. (more)
The National Basketball Association’s biggest public splash of the summer is the Miami franchise signings of Lebron James and Chris Bosh and getting Dwayne Wade to stay in South Florida and forming the nucleus of a “super” team. (more)
It’s summertime, when a cable television host’s thoughts turn to himself. Yes, this was an unusually self-absorbed week for Keith Olbermann, which is a bit like saying this was an unusually slimy week for John Edwards – it’s *really* saying something. (more)
This is the kind of week in sports that lawyers love. (more)
A Toronto woman says the billing practices of Rogers Wireless Inc. led to her husband discovering her extramarital affair. (more)
LONDON — A TV communications satellite is drifting out of control thousands of miles above the Earth, threatening to wander into another satellite’s orbit and interfere with cable programming across the United States, the satellites’ owners said Tuesday. (more)
An 18-year-old woman who pursued fame on a cable TV reality show after being prosecuted for her role in the “bling ring” celebrity burglary case agreed Monday to plead no contest to felony residential burglary and was sentenced to six months in jail. (more)
There’s one sector of the entertainment industry that has not been roiled by the Internet, the economy or ever-changing consumer tastes. Say hello to Hollywood’s most stable business: Soft-core pornography. (more)
Flyers’ owner Ed Snider has just picked up another right-winger. (more)
Press secretary Robert Gibbs chided the White House press corps Sunday, saying that some of its members are more interested in camera time than reporting. (more)
I wasn’t going to write about President Obama’s new nuclear weapons strategy–a central tenet of which is that the U.S. would not authorize a nuclear strike against a nonnuclear country in retaliation for a chemical or biological attack if that country is in compliance with its nonproliferation obligations under the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT). (more)
So much for Sarah Palin’s hopes for becoming a big network reality TV star. (more)
Last week I made a rare appearance on MSNBC (a network on which I have had numerous “YouTube moments” since the 2008 election, when they became the “Obama Network”) and shared some statements which apparently shocked some of my fellow conservatives. (more)
The National Football League is entering a new phase of the 2010 season, the player recruitment campaign will start on March 5 and there are new rules for this endeavor because the owners have decided to blow up the old collective bargaining agreement, a document that kept both owners and players relatively happy. (more)
