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Jersey Shore premiere highest rated for MTV
The Daily Caller - 2 days agoThe third season premiere of the MTV Reality TV series was the most watched series telecast in the Cable Network’s history, MTV announced Friday. The network said 8.45 million total viewers tuned in to the show, which chronicles the carrying…
Read more >>Viacom replays copyright claims in YouTube appeal
Boston Herald - 3rd Dec 2010
San Francisco — Viacom Inc., the owner of MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, is trying to revive a federal Lawsuit that seeks more than $1 billion in damages from YouTube for showing tens of thousands of pirated video clips from its s…
Read more >>Reading ‘The Daily’
New York Magazine - 29th Nov 2010
Newspapers are the business Rupert Murdoch loves most—and now he’s betting their future on an app. Early next year, he will launch The Daily, the first newspaper produced exclusively for the iPad. So far, we’ve heard a lot about o…
Read more >>Stop the Internet Blacklist
The Huffington Post - 19th Nov 2010
By David Segal and Aaron Swartz When it really matters to them, Congressmembers can come together -- with a panache and wry wit you didn't know they had. As banned books week gets underway, and President Obama admonishes oppressive regimes for t…
Read more >>List of top 15 cable programs in the Nielsen ratings for Nov. 8-14
Washington Examiner - 17th Nov 2010Rankings for the top 15 programs on Cable Networks as compiled by the Nielsen Co. for the week of Nov. 8-14. Day and start Time (EST) are in parentheses: 1. NFL Football: Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati (Monday, 8:29 p.m.), ESPN, 10.61 million homes, …
Read more >>David Freddoso: All of Congressman Boucher's SUVs
Washington Examiner - 20th Oct 2010When a Candidate spends $29,000 from his Campaign treasury to buy a Sport utility Vehicle -- as did Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., last fall -- it tends to draw attention. It's a perfectly legal but profoundly strange purchase, one his Donors likely …
Read more >>MTV Denies That Obama Telecast Is Political
Human Events - 14th Oct 2010
Viacom networks MTV, BET and CMT are giving an hour of free air time to President Obama less than three weeks before the Midterm Elections. The so-called “A Conversation with President Obama” will be live and commercial-free on …
Read more >>MTV addresses equal time concerns
Politico - 14th Oct 2010
MTV addressed concerns about both the fairness and the making of its town hall with President Obama this afternoon in an article that Karin Tanabe and I have up on the main site. Regarding the equal time concerns: Stephen Friedman, the Gener…
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