Company Town
Amid a dearth of fresh content during the Hollywood strikes, consumers are rediscovering older series and movies to keep themselves entertained.
Aug. 29, 2023
Television
A few weeks ago, I was at a reception at the Directors Guild, over on Sunset Boulevard, dying.
June 29, 1995
Entertainment & Arts
Internet: Service that lets users record programming is latest challenge to industry’s ability to control distribution.
June 16, 2000
The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative is suing DirecTV Inc., a unit of El Segundo-based Hughes Electronics Inc., to enforce its right to sell HBO, Showtime and other premium programming that DirecTV acquired when it bought U.S.
June 4, 1999
Business
Dish Network’s AutoHop ad-skipping feature sparks lawsuits
May 25, 2012
Politics
The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether two large cable firms can be sued under the nation’s oldest civil rights law for having refused to carry the programs of an African American-owned network.
June 10, 2019
Awards
ESPN sued Verizon on Monday for an alleged breach of contract after the distribution giant moved to offer “skinny” packages of TV channels clustered by genre.
April 27, 2015
BMI, an organization that polices the use of copyrighted songs by other media, has filed a copyright infringement suit in New York State Superior Court against Rainbow Programming, which operates the cable channels Bravo, American Movie Classics and Prism.
Oct. 21, 1988
Chuck Barris, creator of “The Gong Show” and “The Dating Game,” Monday filed a $5-million copyright-infringement suit claiming a new childrens’ television program, “I’m Telling,” is unfairly based on his “The Newlywed Game.”
July 1, 1987
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April 5, 2012