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CBS plans to broadcast the Chargers-Cowboys game Thursday. Pictured: Chargers receiver Keenan Allen tries to break free from the Buffalo Bills' E.J. Gaines on Nov. 19 in Carson.

Millions of Dish customers lose CBS signals, face Thanksgiving without network’s football

August 18, 2019 at 4:33 p.m.

Nearly 3 million Dish Network subscribers in 18 cities, including Los Angeles, have lost access to their local CBS television station — just two days before Thanksgiving, when many Americans...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Roy Price resigns as Amazon Studios chief following sexual harassment allegation

December 17, 2018 at 4:44 p.m.

Roy Price resigned as the head of Amazon Studios on Tuesday after an allegation that he had sexually harassed a television producer working on one of his shows. Price's departure,...

Weinstein sexual harassment controversy exposes Hollywood’s double standard

June 2, 2018 at 1:21 a.m.

When the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape leaked one year ago, capturing then-candidate, now-President Trump bragging in coarse terms in 2005 about being allowed to grab women because he was a...

Cher has filed a lawsuit against Patrick Soon-Shiong, alleging fraudulent concealment and breach of fiduciary duty over the sale of her shares in the biopharmaceutical company Altor.

Cher accuses billionaire doctor Patrick Soon-Shiong of stock sale fraud. She sold willingly, suit defendants say

June 2, 2018 at 3:59 a.m.

Performer Cher filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, alleging that Los Angeles billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong and others duped her into selling her shares in a promising...

Disney to leave Netflix, launch two streaming services

December 17, 2018 at 4:53 p.m.

Walt Disney Co. will launch two Netflix-like streaming services — one for sports and another for films and television shows — in one of the boldest moves by an entertainment...

AMC tests an ad-free channel on Comcast for viewers who hate commercials

June 3, 2018 at 11:34 a.m.

Advertising-supported TV is taking another step to becoming "The Walking Dead." AMC Networks Inc., the cable programming company that is home to the zombie apocalypse drama, on Thursday became the...

Cast members of the ABC hit sitcom "Roseanne" which will be back with its original cast in the 2017-18 TV season.

Why ‘Roseanne’ and ‘Will & Grace’ are returning: TV networks playing it safe in a risky market

March 28, 2019 at 11:02 a.m.

Network television wants to be America's security blanket. That was the underlying message in this week's advertiser upfront sales presentations during which TV networks are vying for more than $18...

The CW's "Supergirl" was among the series promoted at the upfront marketplace in New York last year.

How the big TV networks are adapting to ad-skipping viewers … and Google, Snapchat and Facebook

April 7, 2019 at 1:15 a.m.

It's the television industry's biggest week of the year. Thousands of advertisers on Monday will descend on New York City's most prestigious venues — Radio City Music Hall, Lincoln Center...

Super Bowl 2017 ads navigate fraught political landscape

December 17, 2018 at 10:36 a.m.

Super Bowl Sunday traditionally has been a day for Americans to come together in a celebration of friends, football and big-ticket TV commercials. This year, advertising executives are gingerly navigating...

Figuring out better ways to deliver ads that are relevant to the viewers who see them was a prime motivation behind the AT&T deal, said Time Warner Chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes.

In yet another giant media merger, AT&T may be trying to buy Time Warner Inc.

August 21, 2019 at 8:37 p.m.

After its acquisition of satellite television service DirecTV, telephone giant AT&T Inc. might be setting its sights on an even bigger prize, Time Warner Inc. Bloomberg News reported Thursday afternoon...

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