TV News: Comedy Impact Report 2010: Tube Titans — Even celebrities go a little crazy for their idols. That’s the reason Jimmy Fallon devoted an entire episode of “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” to Bruce Springsteen, who chose it as the only nighttime show he’d do to promote the release of his “The Promise” box set.
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Jimmy Fallon: Host caters to late-night and next-day viewers
TV News: Comedy Impact Report 2010: Tube Titans — Last summer saw the introduction of the phrase “the Louie deal” among comedians.
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Louis CK: Lucky cut-up earns creative freedom
TV News: Streaming vid firm accuses Comcast of putting ‘tollbooth’ on Internet — A tech company that recently partnered with Netflix to deliver streaming movies to customers is charging that Comcast Corp. is “effectively putting up a tollbooth” to its Internet service, demanding fees to transmit movies that ostensibly would compete with its own on-demand efforts.
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Level 3, Comcast spar over fees
TV News: Aud measurement also a question for online viewing — Hulu is facing competition from the likes of Google TV and a new streaming-only subscription service from Netflix, but one of its bigger challenges may be growing pains felt within its group of owners.
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Networks grapple with Hulu ad sales
TV News: Nets aim to stop FilmOn.com from transmitting station signals — Sources say a federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order to halt a site’s streaming of broadcast signals of TV stations over the Internet without the consent of the networks.
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Judge halts TV streaming service
TV News: CBS exec joins in on org’s walk fund-raiser — Wendi Trilling learned about the alarming rise in child food allergies the hard way, when her son Max began having severe reactions.
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Trilling shows FAAN support
The Amazing Race 17 has minor controversy on its hands, as last week’s episode ended in a non-elimination for Nick DeCarlo and Vicki Casciola, but the team didn’t complete the required punishment, a speed bump task, this episode. The answer lies in last week’s episode: There never was a speed bump task. At the end of the episode, when Nick and Vicki arrive at the mat, Phil says, “This is a non-elimination leg and you..
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Amazing Race’s missing task: there never was a speed bump for Nick and Vicki
TV News: TBS yakker to try new tools — As his TBS yakker bows Nov.
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Conan O’Brien’s evolving talkshow
TV News: Gaffes trip up on-air reporters — Cable nets have made journalists into stars and popular pundits, but there’s a fine line to tread when voicing an opinion — as Juan Willliams found out.
TV News: SARFT exec was involved in Internet regulation — A director of the Internet section of China’s powerful Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has been detained by investigators on suspicion of accepting bribes related to a major project to integrate media networks.
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Chinese official arrested on bribes charge
