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Bell rings for round two Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 4:16AMBill Zwecker: Sometimes those so-called amicable celeb breakups aren't, well, all that friendly. Though that ''amicable'' adjective was used a lot by the parties involved when 'Saved by the Bell'' star Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Lisa Ann Russell, his wife of 13 years, announced they were splitting earlier this summer, it seems that wasn't the whole picture.
Los Angeles Production Listings Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 9:30PMThe following listings are not casting notices but instead reflect the best general information available about current casting assignments. Do your homework and use them wisely. Do not phone or visit casting directors' offices.
Football. Irish Set to Kick Off 2010 Season At Home Against Purdue Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 6:49PMThe University of Notre Dame will begin its 122nd season of varsity football on Saturday, playing host to Purdue at 3:30 p.m. ET in Notre Dame Stadium. It will mark the first game under new head coach Brian Kelly.
Two Detroit-area men detained on terror charges in Amsterdam after arriving on flight from US Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 6:36PMTwo men who arrived on a flight from Chicago were detained Monday at the request of U.S. authorities in the Netherlands and charged with “preparation of a terrorist attack,” ABC News reported, citing U.S. law enforcement officials. The men were appar...
Two Detroit-area men detained on terror charges in Amsterdam after arriving on flight from US Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 6:32PMTwo men who arrived on a flight from Chicago were detained Monday at the request of U.S. authorities in the Netherlands and charged with “preparation of a terrorist attack,” ABC News reported, citing U.S. law enforcement officials. The men were apparently traveling with “mock bombs” in their luggage...
Midwest A Cappella Music Festival Offers 3 Ways to See Nation's Top Vocal Groups Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 2:01AMAcappellaFest 2010 showcases some of the nation's top vocal talents on Saturday 10/16/2010 in Schaumburg, IL at the Prairie Center for the Arts.
WLS reporter Horng was raised on the news Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 4:01AMLewis Lazare: Regular viewers of WLS-Channel 7 know that news reporters and anchors don't come and go with great frequency at the city's top-rated news outlet. But the station has just brought on board general assignment reporter Eric Horng, who transitioned to Channel 7 this month from a job as a Chicago-based national reporter for ABC News.
Leach will have open mike for his new gig Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 9:55PMMike Leach is an interesting choice as a college football analyst.
Meteorologist Keenan Smith Joins WXYZ-TV Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @ 10:34AMWXYZ-TV is pleased to announce that Meteorologist Keenan Smith will be joining the Channel 7 Action News team on Action News This Morning and Action News at Noon.
Los Angeles Production Listings Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @ 12:32AMThe following listings are not casting notices but instead reflect the best general information available about current casting assignments. Do your homework and use them wisely. Do not phone or visit casting directors' offices.
AMARANTE ON TV: 'Faces Against Violence,' and 'Dora' specials on tap for weekend Sunday, August 15, 2010 @ 4:31AMThink New Haven and Bridgeport have a violence problem? Consider Chicago which, with one-third the population of New York, lost more children in 2009 to violence than the Big Apple — 57 kids between the ages of 9 and 19.
Mike Garrity leaving Channel 5 for New Hampshire Friday, August 13, 2010 @ 8:00PMGARRITY'S GONE • Mike Garrity is leaving St. Louis to go to workfor the ABC affiliate in New Hampshire, WMUR-TV, where he says hewill have the opportunity to cover next year's primary election andthe 2012 presidential race. Garrity, who has been with KSDK-TV(Channel 5) since 2007, said he expects his last day here to beSept. 11. He is scheduled to start work in New Hampshire on Sept.20.
Los Angeles Production Listings Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 9:30AMThe following listings are not casting notices but instead reflect the best general information available about current casting assignments. Do your homework and use them wisely. Do not phone or visit casting directors' offices.
Media Matters: Local radio, TV stations get ready for football Monday, August 9, 2010 @ 7:38AMThe fall football season is fast approaching and local media outlets are unveiling their gridiron lineups.
Arbitron Releases Radio Industry's Midseason Professional Baseball Report Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 11:30AMArbitron Inc. announced today that it released the first mid-season report of radio audience listening for America's favorite pastime. The Mid-Season 2010 Arbitron Sports Report: PPMâ¢ Radio Listening for Pro Baseball covers In Game, Play-by-Play estimates for the first half of the 2010 professional baseball season from April 4, to June 23, 2010 and includes 28 teams in 25 markets where the ...
2AM Club Hitting The Road Monday, August 2, 2010 @ 5:24AM2AM Club have announced tour dates in support of their debut album
Ben Bradley recalls his journalistic roots Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 11:16AMWhen he was just a boy, Ben Bradley would create newscasts in his parents' - Stephen and Ruth - Olympia Fields home, converting a linen closet into a studio and filming his father at a made-up anchor desk. Bradley, 35, who has been a reporter at the station for eight years, plans to continue on weekdays to do reporting, his first love.
Los Angeles Production Listings Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 11:31PMThe following listings are not casting notices but instead reflect the best general information available about current casting assignments. Do your homework and use them wisely. Do not phone or visit casting directors' offices.
Ch. 2 to bring Bill and Walter back Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 11:49AMBill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson, whose re-teaming as co-anchors at WBBM-Ch. 2 in the late 1980s failed to reproduce their earlier success there, are being paired once more in a Channel 2 bid to resurrect ratings.
Softball: 2010 World Cup Canada vs. United States. Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 6:02AMESPN, 8 p.m. 5. Wipeout (new) ABC's quest to prove it can be just as trashy as Jeff Zucker's NBC continues tonight with its latest game show in which contestants are smacked, bopped and slammed into various bodies of water.
WLS expanding local news footprint Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 12:16PMABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, the top-rated station for local news, isaggressively expanding its local news footprint. Starting Aug. 2, WLS willadd an additional half-hour to its early news show, which will now run from4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m.The early morning anchor line-up, including Judy Hsu and Hosea Sanders,meteorologist Tracy Butler and traffic reporter Roz Varon, will not change.WLS, however, is ...
Ben Bradley new Sunday morning co-anchor on WLS-Channel 7 Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 4:01AMLewis Lazare: Veteran WLS-Channel 7 reporter Ben Bradley has been named co-anchor of the station's Sunday morning newscasts, effective Sept. 5. Bradley will join Stacey Baca on the Sunday morning newscasts at 6 and 8 a.m., while continuing to do general assignment reporting during the week.
WFLD moves Davlantes, McPherrin Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 2:34PMPhil Rosenthal: Anna Davlantes, whose ambition led her to WFLD-Ch. 32's marquee 9 p.m. newscast as a reporter and contributing anchor last fall, is moving off that program to become co-host of of Channel 32's three-hour morning news with Corey McPherrin.
OnMedia: Closing the old ratings book Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 11:08AMArbitron's final quarterly ranking of Milwaukee radio stations is out as the market joins the move to the potentially earth-shaking portable people meters ... Meg McKenzie's in the running to do a bit on "Live! With Regis and Kelly"... What comes after Oprah?
ABC News 24 races to air Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 7:10AMABC News 24 is go. So how did it look on opening night? There were a few technical glitches, but it was a slick and impressive promotion for the new channel.
After Oprah, local show will take slot here Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 12:31PMLewis Lazare: Can lightening strike twice? ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 general manager Emily Barr believes so. Barr said Tuesday that she plans to replace the hugely successful " Oprah Winfrey Show" when it concludes in the fall of 2011 with a locally produced daily show filmed in front of a live audience. The working title for the new show is "Morning Rush."
News June 29: Swanni's 10 Hottest Shows In HDTV! Saturday, July 17, 2010 @ 1:08AMWashington, D.C. (June 29, 2010) -- High-Definition TVs are now in more than 40 million U.S. homes and there are scores of high-def programming choices.
Richard Deitsch: June Media Power Rankings Thursday, July 15, 2010 @ 10:41AM1. Emmet Smith, Deputy Design Director for News, The Cleveland Plain Dealer: For those who celebrate the daily elegance of the newspaper front page, it was a gift of genius: LeBron James walking out of the frame, flanked by a single word headline: GONE. For the past month Smith and Michael Tribble, the design and graphics director for the Plain Dealer newspaper, kicked around ideas on how to ...
Andy Borowitz Archives Monday, July 12, 2010 @ 10:26PM06/23/10 : Hawking: Aliens ‘No Longer Interested’ in Invading Earth 05/27/10 : Experts Propose Plugging Oil Leak with BP Executives 05/10/10 : Greece Offers to Repay Loans with Giant Horse 01/12/10 : Blago Defends Remarks: ‘It's a Black Thing, You Wouldn't Understand’ 10/16/09 : Balloon Boy to America: Punk'd!
TV Highlights Friday, July 9, 2010 @ 11:00PMHaving found some success with Canadian import "Flashpoint," CBS debuts another series Saturday night that already aired in Canada: "The Bridge" (at 8 p.m.), about a Toronto police union head, working to fight crime and his own bosses. Television - United States - Arts - Guides - 2010 FIFA World Cup
American Top 40 Celebrates 40th Anniversary This Weekend Wednesday, June 30, 2010 @ 6:00AMLOS ANGELES----*Electronic Press Kit Available for Download. Details Below.
List: Top dishes per state with highest fat content Tuesday, June 29, 2010 @ 7:27AMHealth.com lists some regional dishes with the highest fat content.
The stormy rise of Ginger Zee Monday, June 28, 2010 @ 9:16PMA lightning rod for objectification, she weathers the turbulence
TV listings highlights for June 26 and June 27, 2010 Friday, June 25, 2010 @ 11:00PMOn Saturday morning, "Geraldo at Large" (Fox News Channel at 10) interviews Gen. David Petraeus about the controversy surrounding the man he has replaced, Gen. Stanley McChrystal. Television - Arts - 2006 - 2010 FIFA World Cup - OleOle
Ratings for World Cup in South Florida top nation Thursday, June 17, 2010 @ 11:52PMSouth Florida's TV ratings sometimes lag behind other big markets for sports, including college basketball. But with the World Cup, we're No. 1 -- no surprise considering our market's diversity.
Live Blog: Follow Round 1 of the U.S. Open Thursday, June 17, 2010 @ 8:44AMBirdies have been hard to come by at Pebble Beach, especially for Phil Mickelson. Seeking his first U.S. Open title, Lefty shot a first-round 75. Can Tiger Woods get off to a good start?
theChanner Unveils the Future of Live Television Now on Mobile Phones Wednesday, June 16, 2010 @ 9:38AMStarting today, viewers can now enjoy live Internet television on their phones, respond to TV channel promotional offers and use their social networks to talk about whatever they're watching.
Everything you need to know about every sci-fi TV show this week Monday, June 14, 2010 @ 1:09PMMore vampires join True Blood on the TV schedule this week as ABC premieres its new vampy/werewolfy/witchy supernatural series The Gates , starring the red-hot Rhona Mitra. Meanwhile, at ABC, you'll also finally get a chance to see the final two episodes of Better Off Ted . Janet must decide whether she's a murderer on Persons Unknown , Alex may have a chance to get back to her own time on Ashes ...
World Cup Capsules: U.S. vs England in soccer's moment in America Friday, June 11, 2010 @ 4:41AMIRENE, South Africa (AP) — The bars are stocked across America, and the pubs are getting ready in England. A 70½-foot billboard of Clint Dempsey stands near Penn Station in Manhattan, and there's even a large poster of Landon Donovan in a store along Piccadilly Circus.
World Cup Capsules: Unprecedented hype for U.S.-England match Wednesday, June 9, 2010 @ 11:56PMIRENE, South Africa (AP) — American soccer players have been on magazine covers and the nightly news shows in ever increasing numbers. The World Cup is receiving unprecedented promotion in the United States.
Ja Rule’s Gun Trial Set for August Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 2:23PM*An Aug. 18 trial date has been set in Manhattan for Ja Rule in his 3-year-old gun possession case. The rapper, born Jeffrey Atkins, was in a chauffeured sports car when cops pulled it over in 2007 on suspicion of speeding, having a suspended registration and no insurance. A search of the vehicle allegedly turned up [...]
T-Pain Sued Over Jennifer Hudson Track Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 2:23PM*T-Pain is reportedly being sued by singer Sara Stokes from Diddy’s MTV series “Making the Band” after he allegedly failed to credit her for a song she wrote for Jennifer Hudson. Stokes claimed that she co-wrote Hudson’s track “What’s Wrong (Go Away)’ with the Auto-Tuned rapper, whose real name is Faheem Najm. The song appeared on [...]
Maxine Waters Doesn’t Like the Proposed Comcast-Universal Merger Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 12:38PM*(Via LATimes.com) One critic likened cable TV giant Comcast Corp. to a plantation, while another pointed to the BP oil spill disaster as what could happen when companies escape tough regulatory scrutiny. Then an influential congresswoman dropped a bomb by hinting that Comcast had tried to buy her support for one of the biggest media [...]
Coleman’s Mom, Agent ‘Appalled’ By Sale of Death Photos Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 12:23PM*Gary Coleman’s former agent Victor Perillo has released a statement saying he is “personally appalled” by the reported sale of photos showing the actor on his death bed, and calls the transaction “unconscionable and despicable.” TMZ reported Monday that Coleman’s ex-wife Shannon Price orchestrated the sale of photos to a tabloid outlet and will receive a [...]
‘Forever Michael’ Event Not Sanctioned by Estate Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 11:53AM*The newly-announced “Forever Michael” event from the Jackson Family Foundation and VoicePlate.com is not sanctioned by the Michael Jackson estate, according to the estate’s lawyer, Howard Weitzman. According to TMZ, the event scheduled to mark the one-year anniversary of MJ’s death is set for June 26 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, and VoicePlate.com owner Joseph Fahmy [...]
‘Fences’ Box Office Breaks Record in Slow Week Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 10:23AM*Despite an overall sluggish sales week on Broadway, “Fences” managed to break the house record at the Cort, and producers have announced that the revival starring Tony nominees Denzel Washington and Viola Davis will recoup its costs by of the end of this week. The August Wilson play will make back its $2.8 million capitalization in [...]
Freeman’s ‘Wormhole’ Set for Science Channel Debut Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 9:24AM*Actor Morgan Freeman’s eight-episode series “Through the Wormhole” premieres Wednesday night (June 9) on the Science Channel with the exploration of issues that have plagued scientists and theologians for thousands of years. As previously reported, the Oscar winner hosts and narrates the series that addresses such scientific questions as what happened before the creation of the [...]
World Cup 101: A primer Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 10:48AMAre you ready for some futbol?We'll start by breaking down the marquee event of the so-called "beautiful game" to its basics: The World Cup, one of the planet's most popular sporting events, is a soccer championship held once every four years.
WNOL drops 9 p.m. newscast, 'TMZ' moves to WGNO Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 10:04AMWWL still local news-ratings champ.
Charley Walters: Kicker Ryan Longwell says Brett Favre's return to Vikings is 50-50 Saturday, June 5, 2010 @ 7:25PMCHARLEY WALTERS Brett Favre's longtime pal, Vikings kicker Ryan Longwell, would not be surprised if the future hall of fame quarterback does not