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NBC, one of the nation's least popular TV networks, is in serious trouble. In February, the Los Angeles Times' Scott Collins detailed NBC's painful decline. "The Broadway drama 'Smash'…bombed on its return, with low ratings that shocked even TV veterans," Collins wrote. "The medical thriller 'Do...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) decided to wage an unusual war when it announced that it wanted to secure a number of generic top level domains (commonly known as gTLDs). These are the domains that may end in something like ".books" or ".movies." Amazon wants several of them, especially .books. However,...

He lost his job in 2011. Now J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) has asked its former CEO, Mike Ullman, to come back and save the struggling retailer. Ullman was more or less ousted in 2011 after activist investor Bill Ackman pushed for him to retire. The investor was unhappy with J.C. Penney's stock...

Can Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) hire its way to the top of the entertainment industry? The company is about to find out. Starting with less than 100 employees in 2012, Intel Media (a new division created to build a TV service and an accompanying set-top box) has grown into a team of more than 300...

Is NBC’s Brian Williams being replaced by @someguyontwitter? Voice of America reports that, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center, 15 percent of U.S. adults first hear about a news story on a social networking site. For young people, the number is almost 25 percent. While...

Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) has made an unusual choice this week. It has decided to acquire the rest of General Electric's (NYSE: GE) stake in NBC at a cost of $16.7 billion. This expensive purchase will give Comcast full control over NBC and all of its assets, including a film studio (Universal...

While Americans anxiously await election day, computer hackers have deemed it necessary to disrupt popular domains such as Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMCSA) NBC sites and eBay's (NASDAQ: EBAY) PayPal payment source. Although those to blame have yet to be found, the hackers in question are seemingly on a...

Entertainment products and services provider Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMCSA) NBC unit said last week that there is a chance the company will make some money from its Olympic coverage, despite receiving a large amount of criticism. During a conference call last week NBC Sports Group Chairman Mark Lazarus...

Satellite TV provider Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) is the subject of a lawsuit from broadcast networks over a new feature that allows consumers to skip advertisements. According to the Christian Science Monitor on July 3, the CBS (NYSE: CBS), NBC and Fox networks are suing Dish over the new AutoHop...

In an effort to fend off multiple lawsuits and prevent its new Hopper feature from being exterminated, Dish Network may enlist in the help of a competitor. Unofficially, of course. But if this Bloomberg Businessweek report is accurate, the satellite provider may be helped by a 2008 federal appeals...