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COURT BATTLE OVER GOLDEN GLOBES GOES INTO SECOND DAY

Testifying in the second day of the court battle between The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. and Dick Clark Productions, Fran LaMaina, the former DCP President and COO, said that the HFPA’s Golden Globes event was regarded as “somewhat [of] a joke” before Clark became associated with them. “Dick Clark’s reputation was the... Read more of this article

PRODUCERS LOOKING FOR X FACTOR FOR THE X FACTOR

Frot-CoutazThe head of the company that produces Fox’s The X Factor has acknowledged that the show did not achieve Simon Cowell’s goal of reach 20 million viewers because “it wasn’t different enough.” FremantleMedia North America President Cecile Frot-Coutaz told a panel at the NATPE convention in Miami that she plans to... Read more of this article

FORMER TABLOID EDITOR ADMITS USING UNRELIABLE INFORMANTS

The former investigations editor of the now-defunct British newspaper News of the World has told a panel looking into journalistic ethics that he has used people as sources for stories that police have considered “unreliable.” “I’ve had front page splashes from crack addicts,” Mazher Mahmood told the Leveson inquiry. Mahmood,... Read more of this article

ABC OFFERS FREE APP FOR WATCHING OSCARS

Working with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, ABC has updated the free iPhone/iPad/iPodTouch “Oscars” app it introduced last year that will allow viewers to access any of six cameras set up at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood for the Feb. 26 event presumably just for the online coverage. After downloading the app from Apple’s... Read more of this article

NFC TITLE GAME SCORES BIG

Allowing families all over the country to rehearse for February 5th’s Super Bowl parties, Sunday night’s telecast of the NFC championship game on Fox between the New York Giants and the San Francisco 49ers attracted 57.6 million viewers — the most to watch any program on television since, well, last year’s Super Bowl. Some 31... Read more of this article

SUIT TARGETS LENO FOR SIKH JOKE

Sikh outrage over a joke in a Jay Leno monologue last week in which he showed a photo of the Sikh shrine, the Golden Temple of Amritsar, and referred to it as “Mitt Romney’s summer home on Lake Winnipesaukee,” escalated on Tuesday as an Indian-American, Dr. Randeep Dhillon, filed a lawsuit against Leno, saying that the joke “clearly... Read more of this article

NETFLIX STREAMING SERVICE GETTING A MAKEOVER (Updated)

With the major studios making it virtually impossible for Netflix to offer new movies to its streaming subscribers after its deal with Starz ends on February 28, the company seems poised for a makeover, increasingly offering original content. Although it launches the first of five planned original series on February 6 — Lilyhammer, starring Steven... Read more of this article

INDIA PROTESTS LENO GAG

Vayalar RaviAmong the deeply devout, humor and religion do not intermix. (About the only religious figure depicted as laughing or even smiling in religious iconography is Buddha.) Jay Leno is the latest to learn that lesson as the government of India formally lodged a complaint about a gag that was included in his Tonight show monologue last week. As... Read more of this article

SUPER BOWL ADS ONLINE GOING FOR SUPER PRICES

On a cost-per-thousand basis, the NFL is asking more than NBC for commercials that will run during its online live coverage of next month’s Super Bowl, MediaPost said on its website. According to the trade publication, the online pricetag will be $275,000 for each 30-second commerical, or $55 per thousand viewers. By contrast, NBC’s CPM... Read more of this article

NEWS CORP TO LAUNCH HISPANIC CHANNEL

News Corp is planning to launch a new Spanish-language cable TV network, but its content will not be coming from Mexico, which produces the lion’s share of network programs for Hispanic broadcasters in the U.S., but from Colombia. The company announced Monday that it is partnering with the Colombian network RCN Television Group to create the network,... Read more of this article

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