Teen Mags? So Five Years Ago

"Following marketers onlineVideo-game advertisers, to cite a classic teen category, have cut their magazine spending to $28.8 million last year from $46.1 million in 2002, a 37.5% drop, according to TNS Media Intelligence. At the same time, they increased web spending to...

Foreign audiences flock to Omkara

"Defying the notion that overseas audiences only appreciate star-studded colourful melodramas like Fanaa, Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara, a riveting retelling of Shakespeare's Othello, opened to strong numbers in North America and a decent gross in the United Kingdom. The...

Country acts show up for George Jones tribute (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

" NEW YORK (Billboard) - Vince Gill " /> SEARCH News | News Photos | Images | Web " /> Vince Gill , Pam Tillis " /> SEARCH News | News Photos | Images | Web " /> Pam Tillis , Sammy Kershaw " /> SEARCH News | News Photos | Images | Web " /> Sammy Kershaw , Mark Chesnutt " />...

Celebrations mark Lucille Ball's 95th birthday (Reuters)

" NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - The 95th anniversary of Lucille Ball's birth falls on Sunday, and it won't go uncelebrated. This weekend in Jamestown, N.Y. -- where Lucy was born and has since been buried and where a major Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz museum now exists --...

Administration Claims Progress on Lebanon - Forbes

" By BARRY SCHWEID , 08.01.2006, 05:42 PM The Bush administration claimed progress Tuesday toward establishing an international peacekeeping force for Lebanon but said no quick cease-fire seemed likely in the three-week-old war between Israel and Hezbollah. In New York,...

Court OK's look at Times' phone records (AP)

" By DAVID B. CARUSO, Associated Press Writer Tue Aug 1, 2:38 PM ET NEW YORK - A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that federal prosecutors investigating a leak about a terrorism funding probe can see the phone records of two New York Times reporters. A panel of the 2nd...

Report: ABC pulls Mel Gibson miniseries on the Holocaust

"NEW YORK - ABC Television Network pulled a miniseries about the Holocaust it was developing with Mel Gibson's production company, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, quoting an unidentified representative for the network. Gibson was arrested on suspicion of drunk...

'Bakersfield Californian' To Sell MySpace-Like Social Software - Edit...

" Yahoo, Gawker Media End Deal to Distribute Blog Posts on Portal Amnesty: Web Companies Violating Human Rights in China India Blocks Blog Sites Nearly 10% of Web Users Are Bloggers, 40% Read Blogs YouTube Sued Over Copyrights TimesSelect 1st Anniversary: Over Half a Million...

Cities conserve power ahead of heat wave (AP)

" NEW YORK - The lights that decorate the city's East River bridges will remain off to save power as the city braces for potentially record-breaking heat — one of many conservation tactics across the country during soaring temperatures from the Midwest to the Northeast....

Forecaster WSI sees fewer Atlantic hurricanes (Reuters)

" NEW YORK (Reuters) - The 2006 Atlantic hurricane season will not be as active as initially projected, due in part to a cooling of ocean temperatures this summer, private forecaster WSI Corp. said in its updated tropical weather outlook on Monday . Some 14 named storms will...