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<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en"><title>News on Media</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/topic/Media" rel="alternate"></link><id>http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/topic/Media</id><updated>2010-03-10T14:30:31Z</updated><entry><title>Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance" Season 7 Auditions</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/photo/2183392" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-10T10:34:43Z</updated><author><name>Getty Images</name></author><id>tag:www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com,2010-03-10:/photo/2183392</id><summary type="html">DALLAS, &lt;a title="Texas" href="/topic/Texas" &gt;TEXAS&lt;/a&gt; - MARCH 10:  &lt;a title="FOX Broadcasting Company" href="/topic/FOX+Broadcasting+Company" &gt;Fox&lt;/a&gt;'s "&lt;a title="So You Think You Can Dance" href="/topic/So+You+Think+You+Can+Dance" &gt;So You Think You Can Dance&lt;/a&gt;" host &lt;a title="Cat Deeley" href="/topic/Cat+Deeley" &gt;Cat Deeley&lt;/a&gt; during Season 7 Auditions  March 10, 2010 in &lt;a title="Dallas (Texas)" href="/topic/Dallas+(Texas)" &gt;Dallas, Texas&lt;/a&gt;.   (Photo by Tom Pennington/&lt;a title="Getty I...</summary><category term="Entertainment"></category><category term="Performing Arts"></category><category term="Dance"></category><category term="Media"></category><category term="Television"></category><category term="Reality Shows"></category><category term="FOX Broadcasting Company"></category><category term="Getty Images Inc."></category><category term="So You Think You Can Dance"></category><category term="Cat Deeley"></category><category term="Competitive Dance"></category><category term="Reality Competition Shows"></category></entry><entry><title>Cable, sat TV firms ask gov't to stop TV blackouts</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/article/Cable%2C%20sat%20TV%20firms%20ask%20gov%27t%20to%20stop%20TV%20blackouts" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-10T14:30:31Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com,2010-03-10:/article/Cable%2C%20sat%20TV%20firms%20ask%20gov%27t%20to%20stop%20TV%20blackouts</id><summary type="html">&amp;lt;div id="subtitle"&amp;gt;Cable, satellite TV operators ask for government intervention in fee dispute with broadcasters&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The most recent showdown left millions of &lt;a title="Cablevision Systems Corporation" href="/topic/Cablevision+Systems+Corporation" &gt;Cablevision Systems Corp.&lt;/a&gt; customers around &lt;a title="New York" href="/topic/New+York" &gt;New York&lt;/a&gt; without an &lt;a title="ABC Inc." href="/topic/ABC+Inc." &gt;ABC&lt;/a&gt; station at the start of the &lt;a title="Academy Awar...</summary><category term="Entertainment"></category><category term="Media"></category><category term="Television"></category><category term="Satellite TV"></category><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Media and Broadcasting Policy"></category><category term="Broadcast Media"></category><category term="Television Broadcasting and Production"></category><category term="Telecommunications Sector"></category><category term="Cable and Satellite Broadcasting"></category><category term="Cable TV System Operators"></category><category term="Satellite Broadcast Service Providers"></category><category term="American Idol"></category><category term="Academy Awards"></category><category term="Time Warner Cable Inc."></category><category term="Comcast Corporation"></category><category term="The DIRECTV Group Inc."></category><category term="EchoStar Communications Corporation"></category><category term="NBC Universal Inc."></category><category term="ABC Inc."></category><category term="FOX Broadcasting Company"></category><category term="Verizon Communications Inc."></category><category term="News Corporation Ltd."></category><category term="National Association of Broadcasters"></category><category term="Cablevision Systems Corporation"></category></entry><entry><title>Azerbaijan court rejects 'donkey video' bloggers' appeal</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/article/Azerbaijan%20court%20rejects%20%27donkey%20video%27%20bloggers%27%20appeal" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-10T12:16:29Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com,2010-03-10:/article/Azerbaijan%20court%20rejects%20%27donkey%20video%27%20bloggers%27%20appeal</id><summary type="html">&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;An Azerbaijani court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by two bloggers jailed after satirizing the government with an Internet video that showed a donkey giving a press conference, their lawyer said.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The bloggers' case intensified concerns about media freedoms in &lt;a title="Azerbaijan" href="/topic/Azerbaijan" &gt;Azerbaijan&lt;/a&gt;, an oil-rich mainly Muslim republic on the &lt;a title="Caspian Sea" href="/topic/Caspian+Sea" &gt;Caspian Sea&lt;/a&gt; that has repeatedly been acc...</summary><category term="Media"></category><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Internet"></category><category term="Blogs and Blogging"></category><category term="Internet Broadcasting"></category><category term="Social Issues"></category><category term="British Broadcasting Corporation"></category><category term="YouTube LLC"></category><category term="Twitter Inc."></category><category term="Facebook Inc."></category><category term="Strasbourg"></category><category term="Reporters Without Borders"></category><category term="Committee to Protect Journalists"></category><category term="Azerbaijan"></category><category term="Amnesty International"></category><category term="United Nations Human Rights Council"></category><category term="Caspian Sea"></category><category term="European Court of Human Rights"></category><category term="Voice of America"></category><category term="Baku"></category><category term="Emin Milli"></category><category term="Adnan Hajizade"></category><category term="Human Rights"></category></entry><entry><title>Azerbaijan bloggers' appeal denied</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/article/Azerbaijan%20bloggers%27%20appeal%20denied" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-10T12:01:04Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com,2010-03-10:/article/Azerbaijan%20bloggers%27%20appeal%20denied</id><summary type="html">&amp;lt;div id="subtitle"&amp;gt;Court rejects appeal of &lt;a title="Azerbaijan" href="/topic/Azerbaijan" &gt;Azerbaijan&lt;/a&gt; bloggers convicted in politically tinged case&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;A court in Azerbaijan has rejected the appeal of two bloggers who were sentenced to prison last year in a case that supporters say was politically motivated.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The bloggers are opposition activists in a country where independent media and opposition parties have faced persistent pressure. One w...</summary><category term="Media"></category><category term="Criminal Sentencing and Punishment"></category><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Internet"></category><category term="Blogs and Blogging"></category><category term="Middle East"></category><category term="Iran"></category><category term="Azerbaijan"></category><category term="European Court of Human Rights"></category></entry><entry><title>Iran tops list of jailers of journalists in world</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/article/Iran%20tops%20list%20of%20jailers%20of%20journalists%20in%20world" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-10T11:45:25Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com,2010-03-10:/article/Iran%20tops%20list%20of%20jailers%20of%20journalists%20in%20world</id><summary type="html">&amp;lt;div id="subtitle"&amp;gt;Journalists bear brunt of government crackdown in &lt;a title="Iran" href="/topic/Iran" &gt;Iran&lt;/a&gt;, says watchdog&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Journalists have become a prime target in an Iranian government crackdown on the opposition following last June's disputed presidential election, with 52 of them currently held — making Iran the top jailer of journalists in the world, according to the &lt;a title="Committee to Protect Journalists" href="/topic/Committee+to+Protect+Jour...</summary><category term="Media"></category><category term="Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="Iranian Politics"></category><category term="Middle East"></category><category term="Caribbean"></category><category term="Western Europe"></category><category term="Iran"></category><category term="Tehran"></category><category term="The Associated Press"></category><category term="East Asia"></category><category term="Mahmoud Ahmadinejad"></category><category term="Committee to Protect Journalists"></category><category term="Hussein Ali Montazeri"></category><category term="Qom"></category><category term="Joel Simon"></category><category term="Evin Prison"></category><category term="Middle East Politics"></category><category term="Radio Farda"></category><category term="Reza Valizadeh"></category><category term="Shahrzad Kariman"></category><category term="Committee for Human Rights Reporters"></category></entry><entry><title>Social networks a challenge to cable news: CNN US president</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/article/Social%20networks%20a%20challenge%20to%20cable%20news%3A%20CNN%20US%20president" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-10T10:16:23Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com,2010-03-10:/article/Social%20networks%20a%20challenge%20to%20cable%20news%3A%20CNN%20US%20president</id><summary type="html">&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The biggest challenge to &lt;a title="Cable News Network LP LLLP" href="/topic/Cable+News+Network+LP+LLLP" &gt;Cable News Network&lt;/a&gt; is not other 24-hour television news stations but social networks like &lt;a title="Facebook Inc." href="/topic/Facebook+Inc." &gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a title="Twitter Inc." href="/topic/Twitter+Inc." &gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;, the president of CNN US said Wednesday.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;"The competition I'm really afraid of are social networking sites," &lt;a title="Jon Klein...</summary><category term="Media"></category><category term="Television"></category><category term="TV News Shows"></category><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Internet"></category><category term="Social Software and Tagging"></category><category term="Broadcast Media"></category><category term="Television Broadcasting and Production"></category><category term="CBS Corporation"></category><category term="Twitter Inc."></category><category term="Facebook Inc."></category><category term="Cable News Network LP LLLP"></category><category term="FOX Broadcasting Company"></category><category term="BusinessWeek Magazine"></category><category term="Jon Klein"></category></entry><entry><title>On `Idol,' Bowersox shines, 3 sink in judges' eyes</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/article/On%20%60Idol%2C%27%20Bowersox%20shines%2C%203%20sink%20in%20judges%27%20eyes" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-10T09:45:14Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com,2010-03-10:/article/On%20%60Idol%2C%27%20Bowersox%20shines%2C%203%20sink%20in%20judges%27%20eyes</id><summary type="html">&amp;lt;div id="subtitle"&amp;gt;On `American Idol,' &lt;a title="Crystal Bowersox" href="/topic/Crystal+Bowersox" &gt;Crystal Bowersox&lt;/a&gt; shines but 3 other singers sink in judges' eyes&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;If the "&lt;a title="American Idol" href="/topic/American+Idol" &gt;American Idol&lt;/a&gt;" judges hold sway over viewers, contestants &lt;a title="Katie Stevens" href="/topic/Katie+Stevens" &gt;Katie Stevens&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="Paige Miles" href="/topic/Paige+Miles" &gt;Paige Miles&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a title="Katelyn Epperly" h...</summary><category term="Entertainment"></category><category term="Media"></category><category term="Television"></category><category term="Reality Shows"></category><category term="Portia de Rossi"></category><category term="American Idol"></category><category term="Michael Jackson"></category><category term="Toledo"></category><category term="Ryan Seacrest"></category><category term="News Corporation Ltd."></category><category term="Ellen DeGeneres"></category><category term="Kara DioGuardi"></category><category term="Randy Jackson"></category><category term="Carole King"></category><category term="Patsy Cline"></category><category term="Middlebury (Connecticut)"></category><category term="Tracy Chapman"></category><category term="Marstons Mills"></category><category term="Reality Competition Shows"></category><category term="Lilly Scott"></category><category term="Katie Stevens"></category><category term="Katelyn Epperly"></category><category term="Crystal Bowersox"></category><category term="Lacey Brown"></category><category term="Paige Miles"></category><category term="Siobhan Magnus"></category></entry><entry><title>Axel Springer 2009 net income falls 45 percent</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/article/Axel%20Springer%202009%20net%20income%20falls%2045%20percent" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-10T06:15:33Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com,2010-03-10:/article/Axel%20Springer%202009%20net%20income%20falls%2045%20percent</id><summary type="html">&amp;lt;div id="subtitle"&amp;gt;German publisher Axel Springer 2009 net income falls 45 percent to $427 million&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;German publisher &lt;a title="Axel Springer AG" href="/topic/Axel+Springer+AG" &gt;Axel Springer AG&lt;/a&gt; said Wednesday that net income fell 45 percent in 2009 to euro314 million ($427 million), with a drop in demand for newspapers and magazines mitigated only partially by new Internet revenues.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The publisher of &lt;a title="Germany" href="/topic/Germany...</summary><category term="Media"></category><category term="Newspapers"></category><category term="Company Activities and Information"></category><category term="Corporate Reporting"></category><category term="Earnings and Losses"></category><category term="Western Europe"></category><category term="Frankfurt"></category><category term="Hamburg"></category><category term="Die Welt"></category><category term="Axel Springer AG"></category><category term="Mathias Doepfner"></category><category term="EBITDA"></category><category term="Berlin (Germany)"></category></entry><entry><title>Spain EU Foreign Ministers</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/photo/2183073" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-10T06:00:58Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com,2010-03-10:/photo/2183073</id><summary type="html">France's &lt;a title="Bernard Kouchner" href="/topic/Bernard+Kouchner" &gt;Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner&lt;/a&gt;, center, talks with the media during an &lt;a title="European Union" href="/topic/European+Union" &gt;European Union&lt;/a&gt; Foreign Ministers meeting in Cordoba, &lt;a title="Spain" href="/topic/Spain" &gt;Spain&lt;/a&gt;, on Saturday, March 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)&lt;div id="copyright"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
        Copyright 2010  &lt;a href="http://www.ap.org"&gt;AP News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;...</summary><category term="Media"></category><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="International Relations"></category><category term="Diplomacy"></category><category term="Foreign Policy"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="European Politics"></category><category term="French Politics"></category><category term="Western Europe"></category><category term="Bernard Kouchner"></category></entry><entry><title>Premiere Of AMC's "Breaking Bad" 3rd Season - Arrivals</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/photo/2182754" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-10T01:31:11Z</updated><author><name>Getty Images</name></author><id>tag:www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com,2010-03-10:/photo/2182754</id><summary type="html">HOLLYWOOD - MARCH 09: (L-R) &lt;a title="Charlie Collier" href="/topic/Charlie+Collier" &gt;Executive Charlie Collier&lt;/a&gt;, actor &lt;a title="Aaron Paul" href="/topic/Aaron+Paul" &gt;Aaron Paul&lt;/a&gt;, creator/executive producer &lt;a title="Vince Gilligan" href="/topic/Vince+Gilligan" &gt;Vince Gilligan&lt;/a&gt; and actor &lt;a title="Bryan Cranston" href="/topic/Bryan+Cranston" &gt;Bryan Cranston&lt;/a&gt; attend the third season premiere of the television show "&lt;a title="Breaking Bad" href="/topic/Breaking+Bad" &gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/a&gt;"...</summary><category term="Entertainment"></category><category term="Media"></category><category term="Television"></category><category term="TV Show Reviews"></category><category term="Breaking Bad"></category><category term="Getty Images Inc."></category><category term="Bryan Cranston"></category><category term="Charlie Collier"></category><category term="Vince Gilligan"></category><category term="Aaron Paul"></category><category term="Hollywood (California)"></category></entry><entry><title>CAPTION CORRECTION: Premiere Of AMC's "Breaking Bad" 3rd Season - Arrivals</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/photo/2182636" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-09T22:30:32Z</updated><author><name>Getty Images</name></author><id>tag:www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com,2010-03-09:/photo/2182636</id><summary type="html">ATTENTION EDITORS!
This is to correct the caption of the following image:
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&lt;a title="Vince Gilligan" href="/topic/Vince+Gilligan" &gt;Vince Gilligan&lt;/a&gt; was misidentified as &lt;a title="Bob Odenkirk" href="/topic/Bob+Odenkirk" &gt;Bob Odenkirk&lt;/a&gt;.
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HOLLYWOOD - MARCH 09: Creator/executive producer Vince Gilligan attends the third season premiere of the television show "&lt;a title="Breaking Bad" href="/topic/Breaking+Bad" &gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/a&gt;" at the ArcLight ...</summary><category term="Entertainment"></category><category term="Media"></category><category term="Television"></category><category term="TV Show Reviews"></category><category term="Frederick"></category><category term="Breaking Bad"></category><category term="Getty Images Inc."></category><category term="Vince Gilligan"></category><category term="Hollywood (California)"></category></entry><entry><title>Andy Richter calls 'Tonight' exit frustrating</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/article/Andy%20Richter%20calls%20%27Tonight%27%20exit%20frustrating" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-09T20:16:28Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com,2010-03-09:/article/Andy%20Richter%20calls%20%27Tonight%27%20exit%20frustrating</id><summary type="html">&amp;lt;div id="subtitle"&amp;gt;Richter calls 'Tonight' exit frustrating, says concert tour for &lt;a title="Conan O'Brien" href="/topic/Conan+O'Brien" &gt;Conan O'Brien&lt;/a&gt; a possibility&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&lt;a title="Andy Richter" href="/topic/Andy+Richter" &gt;Andy Richter&lt;/a&gt;, Conan O'Brien's sidekick at "&lt;a title="The Tonight Show" href="/topic/The+Tonight+Show" &gt;The Tonight Show&lt;/a&gt;," is acknowledging some ill will toward &lt;a title="NBC Universal Inc." href="/topic/NBC+Universal+Inc." &gt;NBC&lt;/a&gt; an...</summary><category term="Entertainment"></category><category term="Music"></category><category term="Concerts and Tour Dates"></category><category term="Media"></category><category term="Television"></category><category term="Talk Shows"></category><category term="Conan O'Brien"></category><category term="NBC Universal Inc."></category><category term="Jay Leno"></category><category term="Kelly Ripa"></category><category term="Regis Philbin"></category><category term="Andy Richter"></category><category term="Late-Night Talk Shows"></category><category term="The Tonight Show"></category></entry><entry><title>Myanmar Election</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/photo/2182415" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-09T18:46:29Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com,2010-03-09:/photo/2182415</id><summary type="html">Members of the detained pro-democracy leader &lt;a title="National League for Democracy" href="/topic/National+League+for+Democracy" &gt;Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy&lt;/a&gt; Party read state-run newspapers carrying military government's announcement on election laws at the party's headquarters  in &lt;a title="Yangon" href="/topic/Yangon" &gt;Yangon&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="Myanmar" href="/topic/Myanmar" &gt;Myanmar&lt;/a&gt; Tuesday, March. 9, 2010. Myanmar's ruling junta will appoint the commission that will...</summary><category term="Media"></category><category term="Newspapers"></category><category term="Armed Forces"></category><category term="Dictatorships"></category><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Elections and Voting"></category><category term="Political Parties"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="Asia-Pacific Politics"></category><category term="Myanmar Politics"></category><category term="Myanmar"></category><category term="National League for Democracy"></category><category term="Yangon"></category></entry><entry><title>late show</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/photo/2182180" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-09T18:02:56Z</updated><author><name>WENN</name></author><id>tag:www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com,2010-03-09:/photo/2182180</id><summary type="html">&lt;a title="Liev Schreiber" href="/topic/Liev+Schreiber" &gt;Liev Schreiber&lt;/a&gt;
outside the &lt;a title="Ed Sullivan Theater" href="/topic/Ed+Sullivan+Theater" &gt;Ed Sullivan Theatre&lt;/a&gt; for the '&lt;a title="Late Show with David Letterman" href="/topic/Late+Show+with+David+Letterman" &gt;Late Show With David Letterman&lt;/a&gt;'
&lt;a title="New York City" href="/topic/New+York+City" &gt;New York City&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" &gt;USA&lt;/a&gt; - 08.03.10&lt;div id="copyright"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
        Copyright 2...</summary><category term="Media"></category><category term="Television"></category><category term="Talk Shows"></category><category term="Liev Schreiber"></category><category term="Late Show with David Letterman"></category><category term="Ed Sullivan Theater"></category><category term="Late-Night Talk Shows"></category></entry><entry><title>late show 2</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/photo/2182169" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-09T18:02:41Z</updated><author><name>WENN</name></author><id>tag:www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com,2010-03-09:/photo/2182169</id><summary type="html">&lt;a title="Jim Gaffigan" href="/topic/Jim+Gaffigan" &gt;Jim Gaffigan&lt;/a&gt;
outside the &lt;a title="Ed Sullivan Theater" href="/topic/Ed+Sullivan+Theater" &gt;Ed Sullivan Theatre&lt;/a&gt; for the '&lt;a title="Late Show with David Letterman" href="/topic/Late+Show+with+David+Letterman" &gt;Late Show With David Letterman&lt;/a&gt;'
&lt;a title="New York City" href="/topic/New+York+City" &gt;New York City&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" &gt;USA&lt;/a&gt; - 08.03.10&lt;div id="copyright"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
        Copyright 2010  &lt;...</summary><category term="Media"></category><category term="Television"></category><category term="Talk Shows"></category><category term="Late Show with David Letterman"></category><category term="Ed Sullivan Theater"></category><category term="Jim Gaffigan"></category><category term="Late-Night Talk Shows"></category></entry><entry><title>Letterman's scandal is over, but can he beat Leno?</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/article/Letterman%27s%20scandal%20is%20over%2C%20but%20can%20he%20beat%20Leno%3F" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-09T16:30:16Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com,2010-03-09:/article/Letterman%27s%20scandal%20is%20over%2C%20but%20can%20he%20beat%20Leno%3F</id><summary type="html">&amp;lt;div id="subtitle"&amp;gt;Letterman's scandal is over, but what everyone wants to know now is, Can he beat Leno?&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&lt;a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" &gt;Dave Letterman&lt;/a&gt; can heave a huge sigh of relief after the guilty plea Tuesday of a TV producer charged with trying to extort him.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;No time-consuming legal mumbo-jumbo will be dogging Letterman. No more messy, embarrassing public revelations of his sexual affairs — real and alleg...</summary><category term="Celebrity News"></category><category term="Media"></category><category term="Television"></category><category term="Talk Shows"></category><category term="CBS Corporation"></category><category term="Vanity Fair Magazine"></category><category term="Conan O'Brien"></category><category term="NBC Universal Inc."></category><category term="Jay Leno"></category><category term="David Letterman"></category><category term="Late Show with David Letterman"></category><category term="Joe Halderman"></category><category term="Sex Scandals"></category><category term="Scandals"></category><category term="Late-Night Talk Shows"></category><category term="The Tonight Show"></category><category term="Celebrity Scandals"></category><category term="Madeleine Smithberg"></category></entry><entry><title>Notable financing, from DIRECTV  (DTV)</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/article/Notable%20financing%2C%20from%20DIRECTV%20%20%28DTV%29" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-09T20:00:13Z</updated><author><name>AlphaNinja</name></author><id>tag:www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com,2010-03-09:/article/Notable%20financing%2C%20from%20DIRECTV%20%20%28DTV%29</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;The price at which companies&amp;amp;nbsp;raise&amp;amp;nbsp;money says a lot about the quality of their cash flows.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a title="The DIRECTV Group Inc." href="/topic/The+DIRECTV+Group+Inc." &gt;DIRECTV&lt;/a&gt; just priced &lt;a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/DIRECTV-Holdings-LLC-Prices-bw-3455325215.html?x=0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;$3billion in debt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for VERY attractive prices:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a title="El Segundo" href="/topic/El+Segundo" &gt;EL SEGUNDO&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a t...</summary><category term="Media"></category><category term="Television"></category><category term="Satellite TV"></category><category term="The DIRECTV Group Inc."></category><category term="El Segundo"></category><category term="U.S. Dollar"></category></entry><entry><title>Top 20 prime-time TV programs</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/article/Top%2020%20prime-time%20TV%20programs" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-09T12:48:11Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com,2010-03-09:/article/Top%2020%20prime-time%20TV%20programs</id><summary type="html">&amp;lt;div id="subtitle"&amp;gt;A list of the top 20 prime-time programs in the Nielsen ratings for March 1-7&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the &lt;a title="The Nielsen Company" href="/topic/The+Nielsen+Company" &gt;Nielsen Co.&lt;/a&gt; for March 1-7. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;1. "&lt;a title="Academy Awards" href="/topic/Academy+Awards" &gt;Academy Awards&lt;/a&gt;," &lt;a title="ABC Inc." href="/topic/ABC+Inc." &gt;ABC&lt;/a&gt;, 41.7 million.&amp;lt;/p...</summary><category term="Entertainment"></category><category term="Media"></category><category term="Television"></category><category term="Reality Shows"></category><category term="TV Comedies"></category><category term="The Walt Disney Company"></category><category term="American Idol"></category><category term="CBS Corporation"></category><category term="Academy Awards"></category><category term="General Electric Company"></category><category term="NBC Universal Inc."></category><category term="ABC Inc."></category><category term="FOX Broadcasting Company"></category><category term="Heroes (TV Show)"></category><category term="Barbara Walters"></category><category term="News Corporation Ltd."></category><category term="Grey's Anatomy"></category><category term="CSI: Miami"></category><category term="The Nielsen Company"></category><category term="The Bachelor (TV Show)"></category><category term="NCIS (TV Show)"></category><category term="Two and a Half Men"></category><category term="The Mentalist (TV Show)"></category><category term="Survivor (TV Show)"></category><category term="The Big Bang Theory"></category><category term="CSI: New York"></category><category term="Criminal Minds (TV Show)"></category><category term="The Good Wife"></category><category term="NCIS: Los Angeles"></category><category term="Reality Competition Shows"></category></entry><entry><title>Euphoria over specials masks deeper TV concerns</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/article/Euphoria%20over%20specials%20masks%20deeper%20TV%20concerns" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-09T12:46:23Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com,2010-03-09:/article/Euphoria%20over%20specials%20masks%20deeper%20TV%20concerns</id><summary type="html">&amp;lt;div id="subtitle"&amp;gt;Broadcasters excited over how well specials are doing; regular shows doing less well&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;While special events are doing very well for broadcasters — capped off by an &lt;a title="Academy Awards" href="/topic/Academy+Awards" &gt;Oscars&lt;/a&gt; telecast that was the most-watched entertainment program in five years — their day-to-day schedules are hurting.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The &lt;a title="The Nielsen Company" href="/topic/The+Nielsen+Company" &gt;Nielsen Co.&lt;/a...</summary><category term="Entertainment"></category><category term="Entertainment Awards"></category><category term="Music"></category><category term="Music Awards"></category><category term="Media"></category><category term="Television"></category><category term="Reality Shows"></category><category term="TV Comedies"></category><category term="Sitcoms"></category><category term="TV Networks"></category><category term="TV News Shows"></category><category term="TV Ratings"></category><category term="Broadcast Media"></category><category term="Television Broadcasting and Production"></category><category term="The Walt Disney Company"></category><category term="Grammy Awards"></category><category term="American Idol"></category><category term="CBS Corporation"></category><category term="Twitter Inc."></category><category term="Facebook Inc."></category><category term="Academy Awards"></category><category term="The Amazing Race"></category><category term="General Electric Company"></category><category term="Desperate Housewives"></category><category term="NBC Universal Inc."></category><category term="ABC Inc."></category><category term="FOX Broadcasting Company"></category><category term="Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc."></category><category term="Barbara Walters"></category><category term="News Corporation Ltd."></category><category term="The Nielsen Company"></category><category term="The Bachelor (TV Show)"></category><category term="ION Media Networks Inc."></category><category term="NCIS (TV Show)"></category><category term="MyNetworkTV Inc."></category><category term="TeleFutura Network"></category><category term="Telemundo Communications Group Inc."></category><category term="TV Azteca SA de CV"></category><category term="Two and a Half Men"></category><category term="Survivor (TV Show)"></category><category term="Horizon Media Inc."></category><category term="The Big Bang Theory"></category><category term="Brad Adgate"></category><category term="NCIS: Los Angeles"></category><category term="Undercover Boss (TV Show)"></category><category term="Reality Competition Shows"></category></entry><entry><title>Hilary Duff to write young adult book series</title><link href="http://www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com/article/Hilary%20Duff%20to%20write%20young%20adult%20book%20series" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-09T10:47:34Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:www.artsentertainmentandmedia.com,2010-03-09:/article/Hilary%20Duff%20to%20write%20young%20adult%20book%20series</id><summary type="html">&amp;lt;div id="subtitle"&amp;gt;Actress-singer &lt;a title="Hilary Duff" href="/topic/Hilary+Duff" &gt;Hilary Duff&lt;/a&gt; working on young adult book series, first novel due in October&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Welcome the latest celebrity children's author, Hilary Duff.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Simon &amp;amp;amp; Schuster Books for Young readers said Tuesday the actress-singer will work on a series of young adult novels that starts with "Elixir," to be published in October. The first novel will feature the worldwid...</summary><category term="Entertainment"></category><category term="Celebrity News"></category><category term="Music Stars"></category><category term="Music"></category><category term="Pop and Rock Music"></category><category term="Pop Music"></category><category term="Media"></category><category term="Book Reviews"></category><category term="Children's Books"></category><category term="Young Adult Books"></category><category term="Photojournalism"></category><category term="Hilary Duff"></category><category term="Books and Literature"></category></entry></feed>