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  • Fox-less WFFT to become independent Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 2:10AMA Fort Wayne station will go it alone as an independent without a national network affiliate but is promising a strong emphasis on local news.
  • NBA National TV Carriers Heavy Up On Mavs, Celtics Lakers, Heat Appearances Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 12:29AMThe NBA, in the midst of a labor stoppage, has released its 2011-12 national TV schedule, and not surprisingly carriers ESPN, ABC and TNT have put a number of clubs into heavy rotation.
  • GPY&R claims digital first: web link as prose for Byron Bay Writer’s Festival Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 11:58PMGPY&R is claiming a digital first with a campaign for the Byron Bay Writer’s Festival that turns an html link into prose. http://www.wordslikehangoutincreepyplaces.be/ware_You_can-findthem_skulking_around_ancient_maya_temples/the_belltower_ofNotreDame/orthebelly_ofGIANTsandworms/you’llcatch_them-ina-VictorianOrphanage-filled_with-dirtyclothes+crackedsmiles/Onwild-horses+wilderwomen ...
  • TNT, ESPN Announce NBA TV Schedules Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 11:44PMThe good news for basketball fans is that TNT and ESPN Tuesday announced its 2011-12 NBA regular season schedule. The bad news is that some of all NBA telecasts may be cancelled due the league's current lockout situation.
  • NASA STS-135 Report #24 Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 9 p.m. CDT Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 11:38PMThe final shuttle crew's final full day in space began with a fanfare - literally - and fond greetings from Florida.
  • U.S. News Ranks Nation's Best Hospitals Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 10:17AMU.S. News and World Report released its 22nd annual "Best Hospitals" rankings today. Johns Hopkins Hospital topped the list, with Massachusetts General Hospital and Mayo Clinic coming in silver and bronze.
  • Fans help lift spirits of U.S. World Cup team Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 10:10AMNEW YORK — One by one, tired and disappointed members of the U.S Women's World Cup team trudged off the bus and were greeted with cheers and waves from appreciative fans who didn't seem to mind a bit that they came up short of a championship.
  • U.S. World Cup team gets warm welcome home Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 9:52AMNEW YORK -- One by one, tired and disappointed members of the U.S Women's World Cup team trudged off the bus and were greeted with cheers and waves from appreciative fans who didn't seem to mind a bit that they came up
  • Fox News Slams Chris Brown – He Responds Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 8:00AM*Fox News, known for its controversial and sometimes off the wall commentary has bad mouthed NBC for promoting Chris Brown on the “Today Show” and endorsing his past and most recent bad behavior. “Now whatever you think of his music, Chris Brown beat his girlfriend to a pulp, he uses the N-Word, the C-Word, the [...]
  • KIT digital Expects Q2 2011 Revenue Up 39% to Record $48 Million; Op. EBITDA Up 34% to Record $9.5 Million Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 7:48AMManagement to Host Online Video Broadcast to Discuss Q2 Results on August 9, 2011 at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time
  • Manse's double horror Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 1:12AMA twisted mystery is playing out in the historic San Diego-area mansion of a New York-bred tycoon after the bizarre, back-to-back deaths there of his longtime girlfriend and his 6-year-old son. Cops yesterday confirmed that they had executed search warrants at the oceanfront home of pharmaceutical exec Jonah Shacknai, whose...
  • Hulu’s Owners Said to Offer Bidders Five-Year Program Extension Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 12:02AMHulu LLC, the online video service seeking bids, plans to offer suitors five years of access to shows from its media-company owners, including two years of exclusivity, two people with knowledge of the situation said.
  • Matt Karatz to take over economic post Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 11:41PMA 39-year-old developer who has worked as a $1-a-year member of the city's business team will be promoted to deputy mayor for the Office of Economic and Business Development.
  • US World Cup team receives a warm welcome home Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 11:21PMBC-SOC--WWCup-US Team Returns, 2nd Ld-Writethru,873 US World Cup team receives a warm welcome home Eds: Adds period in U.S. in 1st paragraph. By IRA PODELL AP Sports Writer
  • News Corp's Murdoch discount Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 4:45PMWhat’s News Corp. really worth? At least 50% more without Rupert Murdoch. By valuing each of News Corp.'s businesses separately, the media conglomerate would be worth US$62-billion to US$79-billion, estimates from Barclays Plc and Gabelli & Co. show
  • Health Highlights: July 18, 2011 Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 4:04PMHere are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
  • Murdochs in the Hot Seat: Faces of a Scandal Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 3:02PMThe elder Murdoch is a man "who meets power with power" and not going to leave News Corp. willingly, biographer Michael Wolff told Bloomberg News. Wolff's book, "The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch,"was published in 2008.
  • In reversal, passenger gropes TSA agent Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:35PMIn a kind of man-bites-dog reversal, a Colorado woman is facing felony charges of sexual abuse after allegedly groping...
  • Phone Hacking: Rupert Murdoch's woes spread to Australian empire Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:27PMShares in News Corporation fell more than 4pc in New York, as the contagion over the News of the World phone hacking scandal spread further into the US and Australia.
  • Is There Nothing Red Wine Can't Do? Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:19PMAlcohol enthusiasts love invoking the health benefits of red wine to quell their guilt as they order a second bottle of Malbec with dinner. And now they have another factoid to cite while they argue the drink's healthfulness. Researchers have found that a much-heralded ingredient in the libation, resveratrol, reduces the negative effects astronauts face when in the weightlessness of space. ...
  • Casey Anthony Released Among Admirers, Vigilantes Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:51PMCasey Anthony was released Sunday morning from the Orange County, Fla., jail, after she was acquitted of the murder of her daughter Caylee, reports the International Business Times.
  • KoolSpan Connects with $4M in Funding - cbl Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:45PMBy Brian Wolak BETHESDA, Md. -- KoolSpan Inc. has completed a $4 million offering of series XX conve...
  • Debt limit plan still up in air Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 12:03AMWashington — Top Republican lawmakers and the Obama administration's budget director predicted Sunday that an agreement would be reached before the federal government defaults on its debt in early August, but both sides continued to squabble over the details of competing proposals, offering little evidence that a deal was at hand.
  • News Corp. Trading at 50% Discount Signals Life Without Murdoch: Real M&A Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 11:37PMThe company, which owns the Fox TV networks and the Wall Street Journal, has fallen 13 percent since allegations surfaced that one of Murdoch’s tabloid newspapers hacked into the voicemail of a murdered schoolgirl, wiping out $6 billion from News Corp.’s market capitalization in less than two weeks.
  • 18 July 2011 Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 10:14PMThe biggest media scandal in the modern age is exploding and the world's most powerful family is under siege, yet some key players in Australia still don't understand that the media power game has changed forever.
  • Should Emanuel be fundraising for Obama, or Chicago? Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 7:37PMGiven that he just laid off hundreds of city workers, columnist Chuck Goudie questions whether Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel should be going to New York to raise money for Barack Obama 's re-election campaign.
  • Defense attorney Jose Baez talks to Geraldo Rivera tonight Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 6:56PMJose Baez, Casey Anthony's defense attorney, will speak to Geraldo Rivera in a live interview tonight.
  • Casey Anthony: Jose Baez talks to Geraldo Rivera tonight Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 6:41PMBaez later talked to ABC's Barbara Walters. In tonight's interview, Baez can discuss Anthony's whereabouts. She left Orange County Jail early this morning.
  • Casey Anthony: Where is she? It’s a mystery Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 12:41PMWFTV's Kenneth Craig, quoting a U.S. Air Force source, reported that the plane was versatile and could land on a dirt road. "Casey Anthony could be anywhere," Craig said at noon. "The pilot is not required to -- and didn't -- file a flight plan."
  • Wichita ABC Station Switching to HD News Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 12:39PMWashington, D.C. (July 17, 2011) -- KAKE-TV, the ABC affiliate in Wichita, Kansas, today is scheduled to switch to high-def newscasts, reports the Wichita Business Journal.
  • Lil Wayne Refuses To Get Tipsy, Bans Alcohol From I Am Still Music Tour Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 10:50AMGrammy-winning rapper Lil Wayne is taking his three-year alcohol probation serious as new reports claim he has banned liquor from the I Am Still Music tour. [Visit SOHH.com for more information]
  • U.K. Police Arrest Rebekah Brooks in Phone Hacking Scandal (Report) Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 8:52AMGeorg Szalai The long-time confidente of News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch had resigned as CEO of his U.K. newspaper division News International on Friday. read more
  • Casey Anthony released from jail; where will she go now? Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 8:20AMCasey Anthony released from jail; where will she go now?
  • TWA Flight 800 Families Mark 15 Years Since Crash Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 7:04AMFamilies and friends of some of the 230 people killed...
  • Lawyers for Royal family in hacking cover-up? Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 6:59AMThe Royal family and their lawyers are the latest to be drawn into the phone hacking scandal engulfing News Corporation.
  • TWA families remember flight Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 1:24AMNEW YORK — Families and friends of some of the 230 people killed when a Paris-bound jumbo jet mysteriously exploded in the sky off the Long Island coast are planning to mark the early evening moment with a quiet beach gathering today.
  • Five College Majors that Will Get You a Job - Sageworks Stats - - Forbes Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 1:08AMFive College Majors that Will Get You a Job ? Sageworks Stats ? - Forbes. ? Not sur
  • Other Sunday Fare: 'Zen' and U.S. Women in the World Cup Final Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 12:17AMA detective who likes to keep his cool, Rufus Sewell plays "Zen," drawn from the thrillers by Michael Dibdin. It's not easy being a clean cop in a dirty British system and Aurelio Zen spends half his time fighting bad bureaucracy. The first of three episodes of "Zen" tonight on "Masterpiece Mystery" (CPTV, 9 p.m.) about a killer seeking vengeance on the cops who put him away. It's done with the ...
  • Families to mark air tragedy of 1996 Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 11:13PMIt's been 15 years since a TWA jet exploded off Long Island's coast, sparking fears of a missile attack.
  • Canyon News - Roberts Blossom Dies At 87 Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 4:48PMSANTA MONICA—On Friday, July 8, Roberts Scott Blossom, renowned actor and Hollywood mainstay, died in his Santa Monica apartment at the age of 87. Blossom reportedly died of natural causes in his sleep.
  • Pentax celebrates Camera Grand Prix award with a limited edition 645D Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 10:54AMTo celebrate winning Japan's Camera Grand Prix 2011 Camera of the Year award with the Pentax 645D, recent Ricoh acquisition Pentax Imaging has announced a limited edition version of the...
  • What Obama's Richest Donors Tell Us About His Campaign Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 9:51AMPresident Obama's 2012 campaign manager announced an epic fundraising effort of $86 million for the first quarter, setting up an eviably high bar and leaving his contenders wondering: where is all this money coming from? As it turns out, much of the money comes from "bundlers," defined by Talking Points Memo as "super-donors who are very rich, max out their personal fundraising amounts, and then ...
  • Sunday show preview: Everybody is making their cases for our fiscal future Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 8:15AMWho is talking this weekend and where you can see them. Read more...
  • Exodus Intl. Head Compares Homosexuality to Obesity Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 8:02AMUndercover videos taken by a gay rights group inside Michele Bachmann 's family-owned Christian counseling clinic have sparked a fierce debate over a controversial therapy to turn gay men and women straight.
  • Turning Gays Straight Like Weight Watchers? Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 8:02AMUndercover videos taken by a gay rights group inside Michelle Bachmann's family-owned Christian counseling clinic have sparked a fierce debate over a controversial therapy to turn gay men and women straight. This week's "Brian Ross Investigates" examines the practice, which is widely repudiated by mental health professionals but embraced by many in the evangelical community. In an interview with ...
  • Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 2:57AMABC's "This Week" - Jack Lew, head of the White House budget office; Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. NBC's "Meet the Press" - Lew; Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Jim DeMint, R-S.C.; Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio; David Cote, CEO of Honeywell International and member of the president's deficit commission.
  • Saturday's TV Highlights: 'The Back-Up Plan' on Showtime Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 10:03PMClick here to download TV listings for the week of July 17 - 23 in PDF format TV listings for the week of July 17 - 23 in PDF format (from latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv) Weekly TV Listings and more can be found...
  • Romney Buys Groupon; Rakes in Dough in Mass., Utah Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:31PMABC News' Emily Friedman (@EmilyABC) reports: Mitt Romney reports having raised more than $18 million during the second quarter, here's a quick breakdown of the highlights: He got the most money from supporters in California -- raking in $2.3 million...
  • CNN, MSNBC cover News Corp. scandal more than Fox Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:26PMDAVID BAUDER AP Television Writer NEW YORK Fox News Channel has discussed the British phone hacking scandal involving its parent News Corp. dozens of times over the past few weeks, but far less than the story has been reported on rivals CNN and MSNBC. Fox faces an awkward question that hounds news organizations in these days of large corporate ownership: How do you deal with stories embarrassing ...
  • Guest Lineups for the Sunday News Shows Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 4:51PMGuest lineups for the Sunday news shows