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The San Diego Comic-Con has posted the schedule for Wednesday, July 22 through Thursday, July 23.

Despite Twitter's popularity and ballooning public image, the micro-blogging site may never be able to turn a profit.

The city-owned parking lot near the Baltimore Convention Center downtown has seen a myriad of hotel-development dreams come and go over the years.

Canadian cable and pay TV broadcaster Astral Media on Thursday saw its third quarter earnings and revenue edge higher, but weathering the economic downturn is getting harder as ad sales slump.

The rude realities of the Canadian media industry will be exhibited in all their excruciating detail tomorrow when Canwest Global Communications Corp.

Celebrities Ryan Seacrest, Nick Lachey, Rob Thomas and Dhani Jones have recorded public service announcements to support Feeding America, a domestic hunger-relief charity, that will air on Clear Channel Radio stations nationwide this summer.

National broadcaster CTV Inc. is keeping its A Channel station in Windsor, Ont., open, for now but has yet to decide on the fate of its TV operations in Brandon, Man.

It turns out the media elite aren't so different from a lot of less affluent people: They think Twitter is a great communications tool, but can't figure out how the online messaging service is going to make money.

JENNIFER LEWINGTON Last updated on Wednesday, Jul. 08, 2009 07:07AM EDT C ITY HALL BUREAU CHIEF Serenaded by the whine of saws, Toronto Mayor David Miller and a cast of business leaders christened the near-completion of the first new commercial building on the waterfront yesterday.

ESPN has acquired the rights to televise Premier League soccer in Ireland. The broadcaster, owned by The Walt Disney Co., will show the 46 matches next season that were previously held by Setanta Sports.

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President Barack Obama has nominated the general manager of Kansas City's public radio station to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The Young Broadcasting assets are to be auctioned off July 14 in New York, according to a report in the Tennessean newspaper, which says the company will be sold or reorganized as a whole, according to its attorneys at the Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal law offices.

Canadian director Norman Jewison will direct a film inspired by his 1966 comedy "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming" with the help of his son Michael and comic Rick Mercer.

OpenCASE 3.5 was purpose-built to meet the needs of content creators and distributors seeking to build, deploy and manage unified video services across PC, TV, and mobile devices.

Entercom Communications announced today that it will release second quarter 2009 financial results after the market closes on Monday, August 3, 2009.

Cox Communications Inc. is adding 27 new high-definition cable channels to the Valley's service area through August.

WE TV senior vice president of programming Steve Cheskin is returning to his Discovery Communications and TLC roots, having been named Monday as executive vice president of programming for the network.

NEW YORK Shares of Central European Media Enterprises Ltd., which operates TV channels in Central and Eastern Europe, got a boost Monday after an analyst upgraded the stock and said the company's markets may have hit bottom sooner than expected.

Patti McGettigan, longtime news director at WOOD-TV , is leaving the station next Friday to head to sister station WISH-TV in Indianapolis, which is also owned by LIN TV Corp.. She will start her new job at the end of July.