Veteran sports broadcaster Jim Huber, a former CNN journalist, died Monday at the age of 67. He was recently diagnosed with acute leukemia.
Last year confirmed one of the undeniable truisms of sports television: Hate sells.
What would Christmas be without Zuzu's petals?
Harry Potter's final appearance on the big screen gave Time Warner earnings and revenue the lift they needed, prompting the company to raise its outlook for the year.
Christian Finnegan describes his character on the TBS comedy "Are We There Yet?" as "the obnoxious wacky neighbor," but also admits he's "... probably more properly known as 'the white guy' on the show."
The comedian can always count on the Oscar winner, no matter how hard things get
The Big Microphone is joining Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith on TNT's Inside the NBA.
Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander will meet with TNT analyst Kevin McHale in Miami on Wednesday to discuss the team's head-coaching vacancy, sources confirmed to SI.com. McHale has the endorsement of Houston's front office and is the frontrunner among finalists that include Mavericks assistant Dwane Casey and Celtics assistant Lawrence Frank.
Dick Ebersol resigned Thursday as chairman of the NBC Sports Group after 22 years, a move that may put in doubt the network's broadcasting of future Olympic Games.
The Eastern Conference finals opening game between the Bulls and Heat was the most-viewed NBA game in history on cable television, TNT announced Monday. The network's coverage of the Bulls' 103-92 romp drew 11.1 million total viewers and a 6.2 U.S. household rating, topping TNT's previous record of 10.8 million viewers for Michael Jordan's last All-Star Game, in 2003.
The burgeoning bromance between CBS and Turner Sports was on full display this week inside a third-floor hotel banquet room at the swank Le Parker Meridien hotel in Manhattan. With their bosses seated behind them at the head of the room, Turner's Charles Barkley and CBS analyst Len Elmore chatted amicably about the upcoming NCAA tournament. Barkley, who works exclusively on NBA coverage, conceded that the college game presented a staggering amount of players and teams. Elmore, a soft-spoken lawyer who has broadcast college basketball for CBS and ESPN the past decade, told Barkley he had covered nearly 70 college games this season and was happy to provide some tutelage. "Call me anytime if you need something, Elmore told Barkley. "Happy to help."
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The lesson: never park your car under Conan O'Brien's office window unless you like marshmallows in the driver's seat.
Comedian Conan O'Brien returns to the late-night television circuit Monday with a much-anticipated new show.
Google TV has the network television industry's attention.
CNN President Jim Walton announced a major shakeup of CNN management Friday, replacing the head of CNN/US with a long-time CNN executive known for his business turn-around skills.
Robert J. Wussler, a pioneering television news executive at CBS before he joined Ted Turner to help build Turner Broadcasting System and CNN into cable industry giants, died on June 5 at his Connecticut home after a long illness, according to a family spokesman. He was 73.
No one knew for sure that it would work. There was no clamor in the marketplace for 24-hour news from Atlanta, and certainly not on cable. As far as most people were concerned, "television news" was 30 minutes at the dinner hour with Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor or Frank Reynolds. And cable was where you went for nature programs, wrestling and Andy Griffith re-runs.
No matter how glorious this past NCAA tournament was -- the thrilling opening day, Butler's inspiring run to a hometown Final Four, and a title game that was good to the last shot -- it was difficult to leave Indianapolis without the feeling that something horrible was on the horizon.
The NCAA has reached an agreement with CBS and Turner Broadcasting to show the men's college basketball tournament from 2011 to 2024 in a $10.8-billion-dollar deal.
Of all the theories floating around as to where Conan O'Brien was going to end up post-NBC -- on Fox, on Comedy Central or skipping television and doing something different altogether -- no one was placing bets that he would end up on TBS.
Singing and dancing his way to cable, Conan has crowds going cuckoo for "Coco." CNN's Jeanne Moos reports.
CNN's Brianna Keilar reports on the killer waves that struck a cruise ship.
Before Jada Pinkett Smith took the role of producer and star of TNT's "HawthoRNe," she made sure her family was fine with her being away from her mother and wife duties during filming.
Holly Hunter doesn't take roles based on what she thinks viewers want to see.
Actress Kyra Sedgwick joins CNN.com Live to talk about the upcoming season of TNT's crime drama series "The Closer."
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was the big name when the Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday. But it's "Doubt" that leads the pack at the 15th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which is being aired Sunday night.
It appears that Kevin Bacon was one degree too close to Bernie Madoff.
For just shy of one month way back in 1995, the Walt Disney Company was poised to become the world's biggest media company after announcing it was buying ABC/Capital Cities. But mere weeks later, Time Warner announced it was buying Turner Broadcasting, putting itself back into the lead dog position among the media pack as measured by revenue, a position it held through its wayward combination with America Online and up to this week.
Before Cooperstown honors Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken later this year, the Hall of Fame duo will be suiting up for another team.
Lately, anytime you put the words "corporate" and "blunder" in the same thought, Wal-Mart inevitably seems to come up.
The head of Cartoon Network resigned Friday after the network's guerilla marketing scheme for one of its shows went bad last week and led to a bomb scare in Boston - a fiasco that cost its parent company $2 million.
As we have expressed to Boston and state public officials and law enforcement, we acknowledge our responsibility for the unconventional marketing tactic that we authorized, and apologize to the citizens of the greater Boston area, especially the citizens of Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville and the customers of the MBTA, for any hardship they encountered last week. We understand now that in today's post-September 11 environment, it was reasonable and appropriate for citizens and law enforcement officials to take any perceived threat posed by our light boards very seriously and to respond as they did.
Turner Broadcasting System and Interference Inc. have agreed to pay $2 million to make amends for last Wednesday's guerrilla marketing scheme that led to a bomb scare in Boston, the Massachusetts attorney general said Monday.
A deal could be struck by Monday for Turner Broadcasting System Inc. to compensate state and local governments for a panic caused by a marketing stunt, Massachusetts' attorney general said Friday.
Two men pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges they created panic by placing electronic light boards that caused a bomb scare Wednesday in Boston.
The following statement is from Shirley Powell of TBS Corporate Communications:
Authorities have arrested two men in connection with electronic light boards depicting a middle-finger-waving moon man that triggered repeated bomb scares around Boston on Wednesday and prompted the closure of bridges and a stretch of the Charles River.
Investors will be keeping their eyes on oil prices and a new round of economic readings, along with sales and earnings reports due Wednesday.
In his first media interview since announcing that he's leaving the Time Warner board, Ted Turner said he's disappointed to see the company selling some of its assets and not taking enough risks but that he supports management in its fight with financier Carl Icahn.
Time Warner is exploring a sale of the Atlanta Braves and one of its cable networks that carries many of the teams' games.
Earnings fell at Time Warner Inc., as the world's largest media conglomerate missed Wall Street forecasts and announced Wednesday that it is setting aside $3 billion to settle securities litigation.
Turner Broadcasting unveiled an on-demand video game service Wednesday that allows customers to access hundreds of games and original content via high-speed Internet connections.
Altria ranked No. 1 in a survey of companies that value diversity and have tangible employee programs and policies to prove it, according to a research group Monday.
Yogi Berra filled a $10 million lawsuit against the Turner Broadcasting System for running an ad for its popular show "Sex and the City" asking viewers if a "Yogasm" could be defined as sex with the former baseball star and coach.
In her 12 years as a paralegal, Marlene Foth of Concord Township, Ohio had heard more than her fair share of horror stories featuring families devastated by inadequate estate planning. "You name it...
A week after the major broadcast networks paraded their fall TV lineups before advertisers, the big news in the world of ad sales is cable's lower than expected rates.
Sports fans in New York, Florida, and Minnesota had reason to celebrate in mid-March: Their cable systems agreed to carry games of the Yankees, Orlando Magic, and Minnesota Wild (a hockey team, we ...
When programming executive Doug Herzog left Comedy Central three years ago to join Fox, friends told him he was crazy to leave a hot cable channel for the dying business of broadcast television. To...
It was one of those beautiful June mornings when all of New York City seems solar-powered: bright, fast, and teeming with energy. I was walking down Sixth Avenue to the hotel where Ivan Seidenberg ...
Big shots rearranging the media landscape--Michael Eisner, Gerald Levin, John Malone, Rupert Murdoch, Sumner Redstone, and Ted Turner come to mind--make obeisance to few men. But when the self-effa...
Like a well-done hamburger, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. has been flipped a lot in the past decade, fetching $1 billion, plus or minus, in each sale. Now MGM is being tossed from the spatula of Credit ...
Fortune: RISKIEST INDUSTRIESupdated: Mon Apr 01 1996 00:01:00
No industry can guarantee safe shelter from the seismic movements that are reshaping the economy. But some are so vulnerable that employees will feel like they're working on top of the San Andreas ...
THREE MONTHS AGO THIS COLUMN RECOMmended Westinghouse's downtrodden $14 stock as a low-risk way to capitalize on the media industry's obsession with megamergers. Then, many Wall Streeters carped th...
THE INTERNET probably deserves its abysmal reputation among business executives. They're barraged daily with hype about the World Wide Web, the Net's flashy multimedia strip, with its glitzy movie ...
Sure, the recent mergers between Walt Disney Co. and Capital Cities/ABC and Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting pair fine assets. But the most tantalizing question surrounding the two megadeals inv...
The reason Time Warner is buying Turner Broadcasting for $7.5 billion is of course that the company covets Turner's choice media properties: CNN, TBS, the Atlanta Braves, and MGM's film library. Bu...
With all due respect to Chicken Little, the recent drizzle of troublesome economic tidings -- including drops in industrial production and business payrolls -- is fast becoming a torrent. They come...
A couple of high-rent weddings between cable companies and their putative partners may have cratered, but that hasn't turned potential suitors into shut-ins. Since January, sundry alliances of comp...
Friends, it is time. Once again we reach for the envelopes and announce the ten most notorious businesspersons of the year. As usual, relative notoriety is gauged by the number of articles in the N...
Rush Limbaugh, radio/TV personality and author: "My strategy is preservation of principal. Cash is king! I am bracing for a major deflationary cycle throughout 1994. I have inquired of a number of ...
Or perhaps just taking in a movie with someone else's wife? Laural Allen, 23, and Sam Johnson, 20, had been working for Wal-Mart in Gloversville, New York, for several months when they began dating...
The year is winding down as we tap in these bytes, so it must be time for Keeping Up's traditional (now in its second year) list of the ten ''most notorious'' businesspersons of the annum. As in th...
Junk bond fund investors gave thanks in November when bargain hunters helped push up the funds' returns by an average of 1.3%. But they sure won't forget October, when junk funds (known in polite c...
THE BILLIONAIRES/COVER STORIES 86 THE BILLIONAIRES It's the frugal 1990s, and the world's 233 wealthiest individuals and families seem to be cooling the spending. One reason conspicuous consumption...
To help you find solid stocks that can outpace the market next year, MONEY offers this list of top-performing blue chips and large growth companies. We began with a ranking of 1,000 of the largest ...
Fortune: ON THE RISEupdated: Mon Nov 05 1990 00:01:00
ELAINE M. KAUFFMAN, 38 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS To Kauffman, the three R's are Reading, Writing -- and Recorded Responses. As business manager for the company's educational products division, she introduc...
Despite the upheavals on Wall Street, the continuing saga of S&L failures, and widespread worry over economic slowdown, the FORTUNE Service 500 delivered its second-highest profits ever. As a group...
Want some early glimpses at the talents of chiefs of FORTUNE 500 companies and other big CEOs? Take a look at the excerpts above from high school yearbooks -- which report on their ambitions, their...
It's no secret: The party in junk bonds is over. Whacked by widespread selling, the return from junk fell to 4% last year. The new year has been no kinder. Rocked by the $3.8 billion default of Cam...
WHETHER YOU'RE a bull or a bear, there's one thing you want to avoid -- dogs. Simple advice, to be sure, but not always easy to put into practice, especially when a likely slowing of economic growt...
Fortune: Signalsupdated: Mon Jul 06 1987 00:01:00
If you're still trying to comprehend the changes wrought by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, don't feel bad. Congress seems just as confused. It is working on a 500-page package containing hundreds of t...
As befits its swashbuckling owner, Ted Turner's Cable News Network has managed a breathtaking feat of derring-do. In contrast to the three major networks, whose news operations are considered prest...
TED TURNER didn't go broke in 1986. Considering this cable TV titan's mania for outrageous business risks, survival may be the most impressive of his many recent accomplishments. Lean and cocky at ...
Fortune: Red ink in Moscowupdated: Mon Jul 21 1986 00:01:00
Ted Turner, flamboyant head of Turner Broadcasting System, owner of the MGM film library, corporate debtor of epic proportions, and ardent advocate of world peace, has found a new role: creator and...
COCKY, shrewd, and so wildly unorthodox that even some admirers regard him as slightly crazy, Robert Edward Turner III owns most of Turner Broadcasting System and runs that Atlanta cable TV network...
Fortune: NOW HEAR THISupdated: Mon Apr 28 1986 00:01:00
''I've never done anything like this before. It's like sailboat racing in a hurricane. It's like being in an airplane in a storm. You buckle your seat belt.'' -TED TURNER, 47, head of Turner Broadc...
Fortune: Signalsupdated: Mon Apr 14 1986 00:01:00
After more than seven months of trying, Turner Broadcasting System finally completed financing for its $1.5-billion takeover of MGM/UA Entertainment. But Turner may have to sell large chunks of MGM...
TED TURNER didn't go broke in 1986. Considering this cable TV titan's mania for outrageous business risks, survival may be the most impressive of his many recent accomplishments. Lean and cocky at ...
Fortune: Signalsupdated: Mon Dec 23 1985 00:01:00
Ted Turner, the Atlanta broadcasting mogul, turned down an offer by NBC to buy half of Cable News Network, Turner Broadcasting's 24-hour news program. A Turner spokesman said he didn't want to give...
THE DAYS OF PAY-TV POACHING may soon be over. Up to now, anyone willing to shell out $1,500 and up for a satellite dish antenna could intercept cable and direct satellite broadcast programs without...
Fortune: Cable wins a big oneupdated: Mon Aug 19 1985 00:01:00
Three federal judges dealt a stunning blow to television broadcasters by ruling that local cable television systems did not have to carry the signals of all the television stations in their service...
CBS INC. has long supported deregulation of the broadcast industry. But faced by the takeover threats of Ted Turner, a newly hatched corporate raider from the pygmy Turner Broadcasting System, the ...
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