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YouTube might be a worldwide phenomenon, but that’s no solace to Brazilians who are currently being shut out of having access. A day after part of the country had the service shut down by Internet server Telefonica, the nation’s populous southern region have the site currently blocked today as well. This is in response to …

“Good Morning America” has hired conservative radio and CNN Headline News talk-show host Glenn Beck as a contributor. Story continues below… “Glenn is a leading cultural commentator with a distinct voice,” Jim Murphy, “GMA” senior executive producer, said in the announcement Tuesday. Mr. Beck’s eponymous show on CNN Headline News was the fastest-growing program in …

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Verizon Wireless will announce its long-awaited live TV service for mobile phones Jan. 7, although it will launch with fewer than one-dozen channels, according to executives at companies involved in the launch. The announcement is expected at a press conference Sunday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Executives scheduled to speak are Denny …

Cellular carriers and other technology companies have come up with numerous ways to deliver video and even live TV to cellphones over wireless networks in recent years. So far, the results have been a limited success. Now, Samsung Electronics Co. says it has come up with a novel approach to provide video on the go: …

to give viewers of the Maury show in Las Vegas and Sinclair station in Columbus, Ohio a chance to win prizes in a real-time contest based on topics posed in the show, even thought the real time will be different in each market. Billed by the company as a first in syndication, viewers in those …

The world was riveted last week by the shaky three-minute cellphone video of Saddam Hussein’s execution, which was apparently taken surreptitiously and quickly became one of the most-watched videos on the Web. It was the latest reminder that the device that tens of millions of people are now carrying around in their pockets is rapidly …

ALEXANDRA PELOSI’S latest HBO documentary, “Friends of God,” will doubtless garner some attention for her fortuitously timed interview with Pastor Ted Haggard, the disgraced head of the National Assn. of Evangelicals. Interviewed prior to allegations that he purchased illicit drugs and had sex with a male prostitute, Haggard boasts about evangelicals’ rollicking sex lives and …

Major news outlets faced an ultimate ethical dilemma — whether or not to televise an execution — when what appeared to be cell phone video emerged Saturday from the scene of Saddam Hussein’s execution. Some U.S. networks ran portions of the video, which predictably spread like wildfire through the Internet. Fox News Channel was the …

CBS’ telecast of Super Bowl XLI on Feb. 4 will be the first time the network’s lead announcing team of Jim Nantz and Phil Simms work the big game together. Tony Petitti, executive vice president of CBS Sports, predicts the two, now in their third season together, will show viewers they’re the best NFL team …

For the second day in a row, Steve Jobs proved he’s a Teflon titan by beating back assaults on his Apple empire over a boardroom options-rigging scandal. Shares of Apple Computer had taken a beating for two straight mornings following reports that his board may have backdated 7.5 million stock options to reward Jobs improperly …

SUMMARIZING 2006 IN TELEVISION SUCCESS seems easy when it comes to top-rated shows: “American Idol” and “Super Bowl,” tried-and-true winners. But other names crept into our scorecards in 2006, like NBC’s “Heroes,” “The Biggest Loser”–and surprisingly, “Studio 60.” What’s telling is how they stack up. In the first part of a two-part series, Nielsen Media …

The broadcast and cable-news networks will offer varying degrees of coverage over the next six days of services honoring former president Gerald Ford, and of his funeral in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Wednesday. Beginning at approximately 3 p.m. today, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC will provide live coverage of the military ceremony as …

AT a tree-trimming party at his Chicago co-op apartment, Eric Spanitz supplied seasonal music, a mix of Bing Crosby and “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” which issued from a certain well-known compact portable electronic device – a mobile phone. About a year ago Mr. Spanitz, a professor of management at Lake Forest University in Illinois and …

The tech world has been all atwitter for months about the elusive iPhone, a cellphone-and-iPod combo that Apple may or may not release soon. Last week, it was revealed that the iPhone actually exists – but Apple isn’t making it. It turns out that Cisco Systems, which owns the home networking company Linksys, has held …

The year 2006, when all was said and done and televised, was a great one for TV. Here’s a tally of the year’s very best – and worst – with a lot of deserving contenders just missing the cut. BEST SERIES: “Deadwood” (HBO), “Dexter” (Showtime), “Entourage” (HBO), “Heroes” (NBC), “Lost” (ABC), “Studio 60 on the …