30 Rock producer Tina Fey and NBC have both issued apologies for Tracy Morgan’s homophobic standup routine in Nashville. NBC’s entertainment chief called Morgan’s act “reckless” and said the network has “made it clear to him that this kind of thing…

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Tina Fey on Tracy Morgan’s Rant

“Celebrity Apprentice” will stay on the NBC prime-time schedule even if Donald Trump hits the presidential campaign trial, the network’s entertainment chairman said Sunday.

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NBC: Show would go on without Trump

Things are amiss in Oprahland: The Oprah Winfrey Network has fired its chief, Christina Norman, just four months after the network debuted. The move comes after the chief executive of Discovery Communications admitted OWN had a “slower start” than…

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Oprah Fires Network Chief

A rough few days ahead for AOL: Sources say the company will begin laying off several hundred employees on Thursday. The staffers will most likely work in editorial and other product groups, and not in the network group or advertising unit. According…

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Sources: AOL to Lay Off Hundreds

Rumors that Charlie Sheen was going to air a show on HBO called Sheen’s Corner were denied immediately by the network, but that didn’t stop the out-of-control actor from giving the public a taste of his new life. Though 100,000 viewers tuned in to…

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Charlie Sheen Gets a New Show

CNN colleagues have been paying tribute to the network’s former Jerusalem correspondent Jerrold Kessel, who died Friday at age 65 after a long battle with cancer.

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Former CNN correspondent Kessel dies

Mr. Monroe, the moderator of the NBC Sunday morning news program from 1975 to 1984, also spent time as the network’s Washington bureau chief and as Washington editor of the “Today” show.

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Bill Monroe, ‘Meet the Press’ Host, Dies at 90

CBS correspondent Lara Logan is in a hospital recovering from a brutal beating and sexual assault, the network says. She was reporting for 60 Minutes from Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Feb. 11, the day Hosni Mubarak stepped down, when she was separated from…

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CBS’s Lara Logan Assaulted in Egypt

BlackBerry take note: a survey conducted by United Sample found that 66 percent of Verizon BlackBerry users will trade in their tried and true gizmo for the iPhone 4 on February 10, when the phone will finally be available to the network’s subscribers….

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Verizon Users Ditching BlackBerrys

Egyptian authorities have said they are shutting down Al Jazeera’s Cairo bureau, the network said in a statement Sunday.

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Al Jazeera’s Cairo bureau shut down

MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract, the network said Friday night.

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Media Decoder: Olbermann Leaves ‘Countdown’ on MSNBC

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a conditions-based merger between Comcast and NBC on Tuesday. After months of heated debate over the potential consequences to net neutrality, a 4-to-1 vote by the FCC sealed Comcast’s acquisition of NBC. The Department of Justice (DOJ) also announced its approval of the deal. Now, with 51 percent of the stake in NBC Universal (NBCU), Comcast will own the majority of the network’s channels, including CNBC and Bravo, as well as the Universal Pictures movie studio. read more

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FCC Approves Comcast-NBC Merger, Mostly

Well, this is a surprise. Ben Sherwood, the novelist and former executive producer of Good Morning America will be the new president of ABC News, the network announced Friday. Speculation had mostly centered on company outsiders. Sherwood will start…

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Ben Sherwood to Lead ABC News

The internet could become unstable as the system migrates to a new addressing system, one of the founders of the network warns businesses.

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Internet faces ‘turbulent times’

The anchor was suspended after the network discovered that he had made donations to Democrats.

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Media Decoder: MSNBC Suspends Olbermann for Campaign Donations