A half dozen media reform and good government groups are petitioning Congress to hold hearings on the News Corp. phone hacking and bribery scandal that has rocked the media world in the United Kingdom. (more)
Responding to an NSSF request that FOX Sports Media Group lift a ban on advertisements featuring firearms and ammunition from its coverage of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) events, the network responded with a form letter re-stating its anti-gun / anti-hunting policy, and confessing that its policy extends to all national and cable broadcasts. (more)
NEW YORK (AP) — Broadcasters have sued a startup backed by media billionaire Barry Diller that sends live local TV feeds to iPhones and iPads in the New York area. (more)
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) — the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry — has learned that FOX Sports Media Group has banned advertisements featuring firearms and ammunition from its coverage of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) events. (more)
Although the new Fox series “Alcatraz” is fictional, some fans were skeptical and decided to go exploring, Ace Show Biz reports. (more)
The US Supreme Court is set to hear oral argument on Tuesday in a case that examines whether tougher indecency standards enforced against broadcast television companies in recent years violate free speech protections of the First Amendment. (more)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Hank Williams Jr. is about to have his say. (more)
Plastic surgery poster child Joan Rivers has blasted former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin again, and this time, she hit Palin’s daughter Bristol as well. (more)
NEW YORK (AP) — Former CNN anchor and current radio talk show host Lou Dobbs is joining the Fox Business Network. (more)
NEW YORK (AP) — Negotiators for Cablevision and Fox parent News Corp. planned to meet again Sunday to resolve a dispute over rates that could force subscribers to make alternate arrangements to watch the New York Giants take on the Detroit Lions. (more)
Conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh will be appearing as a cartoon version of himself for this weekend’s episode of Family Guy. (more)
With Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee all making moves indicating they may run for president, their common employer is facing a question that hasn’t been asked before: How does a news organization cover White House hopefuls when so many are on the payroll? (more)
NEW YORK (AP) — Comcast Corp. has locked in access to CBS Corp. programming for the next decade and will be able to expand on-demand access to the company’s shows in a deal announced Monday. (more)
President Obama has called the BP oil spill “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced,” and so has just about everyone else. Green groups are sounding alarms about the “Catastrophe Along the Gulf Coast,” while CBS, Fox and MSNBC slap “Disaster in the Gulf” chryons on all their spill-related news. Even BP fall guy Tony Hayward, after some early happy talk, admitted the spill was an “environmental catastrophe.” The obnoxious anti-environmentalist Rush Limbaugh has been a rare voice arguing that the spill — he calls it “the leak” — is anything less than an ecological calamity, scoffing at the avalanche of end-is-nigh eco-hype. (more)
If it’s Sunday, it’s Meet the Press… and Face the Nation… and This Week… and Fox News Sunday… and State of the Union. (more)
It’s official: Bombshell actress Megan Fox and 90s TV star Brian Austin Green were married in a private ceremony in Hawaii last week, and RadarOnline.com has all the scoop for you. (more)
If it’s Sunday, it’s Meet the Press… and This Week… and Fox News Sunday… and Face the Nation… (more)
If it’s Sunday, it’s Meet the Press… and Fox News Sunday… and Face the Nation… and This Week… (more)
If it’s Sunday, it’s Meet the Press… and Fox News Sunday… and Face the Nation… and This Week… (more)






















