The Walt Disney Co.'s plans to transform a slice of its bucolic ranch near Santa Clarita into a 21st century production center gained a key approval on Wednesday, as the Los Angeles County regional…
Time Warner Cable is being hit with a class action suit by four Southern California pay TV subscribers, who claim that the $11 billion the cable operator has paid for Lakers and Dodgers rights will…
Tom Wheeler, President Obama's nominee to be the next chairman of the FCC, faced pointed questions on regulatory overreach and TV indecency from Republicans at a Senate confirmation hearing on…
Third Point CEO Daniel Loeb has sent a second letter to Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai, raising its stake in the electronics giant and reiterating a proposal to spinoff as much as 20% of the company's…
President Obama is expected to nominate HBO executive James Costos as the next U.S. ambassador to Spain, as the administration prepares to unveil a number of selections for highly sought diplomatic…
Three brothers from Northern California were arraigned in an Alameda County court for allegedly operating the website mediamp4.com, which allowed users to stream more than 1,000 copyrighted TV and…
It may come as a surprise to many that “Happy Birthday to You,” perhaps the most popular song in the English language, falls under copyright, or at least Warner/Chappell Music claims that they own…
In another twist in the battle over the rates that streaming music services pay publishers and artists, Broadcast Music Inc. filed suit against Pandora, claiming that the popular music service has…
Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce from his wife of 14 years, Wendi Deng Murdoch, but Wall Street doesn't seem too concerned about the effect the split will have on News Corp. The stock was up 1%…
Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) is asking the FCC to study the idea of a la carte cable pricing, in an effort to again give some momentum to a bill he recently introduced to require that cable operators…
