If You Missed It, Originals

Roland Martin talks with tech guru Mario Armstrong about getting around the Time Warner Cable-CBS dispute.

Entertainment

NEW YORK (AP) — The last of the original hosts on ABC’s daytime talk show “The View” — except for the program’s inventor, Barbara Walters — makes her exit Friday. Joy Behar‘s last day is punctuated by a profane joke. Taped a week ago, the program is a salute to Behar with special guests, a […]

TV & Film

Are you a Zero-TV household?  No, I don’t mean restricting the kids’ TV viewing to the weekends or until after they’ve completed homework.  I mean – do you watch TV the traditional way or on any of the growing techy options available to us?  So many of us are watching video content on our phones, […]

If You Missed It, Little Known Black History Facts, Originals

Tammy Williams is the first black woman to own her own post-production studio in the state of Georgia. Williams has recently started Open River Studios in Fayetteville. Open Rivers Studios is a 16,000 sq. ft. complex with production and post-production operations. Williams hopes to attract Independent filmmakers and provide original programming that will lead to […]

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Blair Underwood is returning to series television in a remake of “Ironside,” which shares few similarities with the original series that starred Raymond Burr. The character’s name and job as a detective is the same, and he uses a wheelchair after being paralyzed from the waist down. The original series, […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Dennis Farina, a onetime Chicago cop who as a popular character actor played a TV cop on “Law & Order” during his wide-ranging career, has died. Death came Monday morning in a Scottsdale, Ariz., hospital after Farina suffered a blood clot in his lung, according to his publicist, Lori De Waal. […]

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The hip hop mogul is getting ready to launch what he’s calling “the revolution”. Revolt, a lifestyle cable network, is getting ready to launch in July. Diddy’s been prepping the world lately with a new social media campaign, including video vignettes that feature Mac Miller and the Game, and a bunch of cryptic trailers. In […]

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SEATTLE (AP) — Teaching parents to switch channels from violent shows to educational TV can improve preschoolers’ behavior, even without getting them to watch less, a study found. The results were modest and faded over time, but may hold promise for finding ways to help young children avoid aggressive, violent behavior, the study authors and […]

National News

While some are content watching the big game on their 55 inch TVs, others may dish out a half-million to watch next year’s big game. The new Panasonic TH-152UX1 reportedly known as the “world’s largest, 4K2K plasma display” carries the heavy price tag of approximately $500,000. The almost larger than life TV spans to nearly […]

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A new precise and exhaustive yearlong study finds that watching television regularly distorts and ultimately destroys the self-esteem of young black males who often find themselves comparing one another to the characters they view on air, leaving them feeling trapped and as if there are “very few positive life paths they can aspire to.”   […]

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