A huge day in television: 1. Madonna announced she would not allow her wardrobe to malfunction during NBC’s broadcast of her Super Bowl halftime show Sunday. 2. “Celebrity Apprentice” star Donald Trump endorsed GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on the eve of his reality-competition show’s season debut. Read full article > >

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Column: Madonna promises ‘no flashing’ at Super Bowl

The 2012 BET Honors: Bigger, better and, for the first time, graced by a visit from the first lady. But still fairly freewheelin’. Now in its fifth year, the network’s platinum evening, which celebrates African American achievement across a spectrum of disciplines, turned up the star wattage. The two-hour ceremony, which was taped Saturday evening at the Warner Theatre (to be broadcast Feb. 13), honored singers Mariah Carey and Stevie Wonder, filmmaker Spike Lee, poet Maya Angelou, the Tuskegee Airmen and Olympic track coach Beverly Kearney. The presenters included marquee-friendly names such as Aretha Franklin, Common, Queen Latifah and Willow Smith as well as some political types, including Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., senior adviser to the president Valerie Jarrett and former secretary of state Colin L. Powell. Read full article > >

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Michelle Obama turns up for BET Honors

If the People’s Choice Awards are any indication, then Katy Perry and “ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2 ” may be the population’s most beloved pop cultural creations of 2011. The “Fireworks” singer — who, in the wake of her split from Russell Brand, opted not to attend the ceremony , held at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live and broadcast on CBS — snagged six trophies, including Favorite Female Artist, Favorite Tour Headliner, Favorite Song of the Year (for “E.T.”) and Favorite TV Guest Star for her cameo on “How I Met Your Mother.” Read full article > >

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People’s Choice Awards 2012: Katy Perry, ‘Harry Potter’ dominate the meaningless trophies

LOS ANGELES—Researchers at the Parents Television Council have helpful drop-down menus on their computers, loaded with just about every profanity and dirty slang term imaginable. They are handy shortcuts — there are additional ones for violent and sexual content — as the nonprofit group’s headphone-wearing analysts monitor every network prime-time entertainment broadcast for offensive language, bleeped profanity, flashes of nudity, threesomes and gore. Read full article > >

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Supreme Court case tests FCC’s power to police TV indecency

At this very moment, in a hotel in sunny Pasadena, Calif., broadcast TV suits are rhapsodizing about the can’t-miss-ed-ness of the new series they’re going to unveil for midseason — which, in rough numbers, means “between now and late May” — while a crowd of TV critics beams upon them as if they were bringing good news from a distant land. Read full article > >

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2012 midseason TV: Searching for the secret ingredient — audience

The broadcaster Keith Olbermann, known for his defiance, has estranged himself from his bosses at Current TV in scarcely three months.

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Keith Olbermann Clashes With Current TV

Veteran sports broadcaster Jim Huber, a former CNN journalist, died Monday at the age of 67. He was recently diagnosed with acute leukemia.

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Turner sportscaster Jim Huber dies

Golfers Darren Clarke and Rory McIlroy receive awards in the New Year Honours list while taekwondo world champion Sarah Stevenson and broadcaster Stuart Hall are also recognised.

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Writer and broadcaster Charlie Brooker has put together his round up of news in 2011.

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VIDEO: Charlie Brooker’s 2011 news highlights

The Queen has highlighted the importance of the family unit in her pre-recorded Christmas Day broadcast to the nation.

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The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has been taken to the woodshed by an arbitrator who gave the agency a good spanking. It’s a lesson to bosses all across the government. At first glance, the case involving the BBG’s Office of Cuba Broadcasting appears to be a routine one about the level of involvement the agency allowed a labor union when layoffs were ordered. Read full article > >

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Arbitrator thrashes Cuba Broadcasting over worker treatment

All the networks, broadcast and cable, are closely covering the Republican primary campaign, but Fox News practically owns and operates it.

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The TV Watch: A Republican Primary Campaign Waged on Fox News

Years ago, my Iranian-born father and I watched the news before dinner. At the end of the broadcast, Walter Cronkite gave his usual sign-off along with his now famous countdown of the Iran hostage crisis: “And that’s the way it is, Thursday, June 12, 1980, the 222nd day of captivity for the hostages in Iran.”

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SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN? THE SAME OLD STORY: A History Lesson We Should not Forget

Coastguards broadcast an alert to shipping in the Bristol Channel to look out for a missing Vauxhall Corsa which became submerged on a slipway.

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Colombian troops shut down the main radio station operated by the Farc rebel group, the army says, ending 15 years of revolutionary broadcasts.

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