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Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” fill-in host Nancy Cordes pressed 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign chairman John Podesta on his campaign’s election strategy. Cordes asked Podesta why Russian operatives that allegedly interfered in that election knew to target so-called “purple states”

Recording Academy president and CEO Neil Portnow says he regrets saying women need to “step up” to win Grammy awards, after the Sunday’s ceremony saw male artists take home an overwhelming majority of the major awards.

A review of media monitoring services reveals that every cable news network except Fox News has thus far ignored the story of the suppressed 2005 photograph of Barack Obama with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

Music stars will receive a counterterrorism briefing over the Grammy Awards weekend, an added safety measure meant to help mitigate the mounting terror threat following the deadly attacks at concerts in Manchester and Las Vegas.

Candice Bergen is returning to TV in a revival of “Murphy Brown,” the agenda-setting 20th-century comedy.

A guest at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, who called the high-end hotel a “disgrace” for serving plastic spoons with her caviar, is getting slammed on social media following Trump’s “One Year Anniversary Party” at the resort.

While NFL ratings have dipped the last couple of years, their television rights are still a hot property.

Dr. Philip McGraw’s highly popular daytime television show about recovering drug and alcohol addicts has been accused of supplying at least one of its recovering addicts with drugs and alcohol.

Jodie Foster reprised her Oscar-winning role as FBI agent Clarice Starling from the 1991 horror film The Silence of the Lambs for a skit on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show Friday night, in which she attempts to get information on possible collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia from an imprisoned Hannibal Lecter, played by Colbert.

The NFL has struggled mightily this year to get people to watch their primetime games, as the ratings from the Week 15 edition of Thursday Night Football continue to come in, it’s clear that those struggles will continue until the end of the year.

Seth Rogen has been tapped to play legendary newsman Walter Cronkite in an upcoming drama about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said it was a “mistake” that the Republican National Committee has resumed support of Alabama GOP U.S. Senate hopeful Roy Moore. Collins said, “I’m disappointed that the RNC has resumed the support

Sen. John Thune (R-SD) said Friday that it was “unfortunate” that the Republican National Committee still supports Alabama GOP U.S. Senate nominee Roy Moore despite facing multiple sexual assault allegations. According to Thune, if Moore does get elected next week,

Sports Media Watch has a great resource for the National Football League’s ratings since 2014 and a glance through the listings for this season through Week 13 offers a sea of red fields showing just how badly the league’s TV ratings have suffered this year.

Former CBS producer Erin Gee has made public a federal lawsuit she filed alleging sex discrimination during her 17-year tenure with the media outlet.

CBS has ended Wisdom of the Crowd after its initial 13-episode order of the Jeremy Piven-starring crime drama. The network’s decision not to order additional episodes comes as Piven facing multiple accusations of sexual assault.

Stephen Colbert, host of The Late Show on CBS, rarely misses an opportunity to take a dig at President Trump. The comedian seems especially prone to taking those digs when it comes to the president’s tweets. During Monday night’s opening monologue, Colbert didn’t let that opportunity go to waste.

Veteran broadcaster Charlie Rose has been fired by CBS News after eight separate women accused him of sexual harassment.

Tuesday on “CBS This Morning,” co-host Norah O’Donnell made a statement about fellow co-host Charlie Rose, who was suspended by his networks amid allegations of sexual misconduct and subsequent apology. O’Donnell stated there was no excuse for the behavior and

Charlie Rose, PBS interviewer and co-anchor of CBS This Morning, stands accused of sexual harassment by eight women.

Della Reese, the actress and gospel-influenced singer who in middle age found her greatest fame as Tess, the wise angel in the long-running television drama “Touched by an Angel,” has died at age 86.

Even as ratings continue to fall for the NFL’s games, the ratings for the various Sunday pregame shows on the broadcast networks have also cratered.

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore should “step aside” from the December 12 U.S. Senate race if the sexual abuse accusations leveled against him in a report in The Washington Post are

TV networks have been giving wall-to-wall coverage to allegations of sexual impropriety by Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, eclipsing the coverage they have given to allegations of corruption leveled at Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez

Last week, Papa John’s made quite the splash by publicly ripping NFL leadership and threatening to end their sponsorship of the league, over how Commissioner Goodell has mishandled that national anthem protests.

Three major news networks—ABC, CBS, and NBC— failed to cover on their nightly news programs Thursday the explosive allegations from Donna Brazile that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) rigged the 2016 Democratic primary in Hillary Clinton’s favor.

Although the interview with Late Show host Stephen Colbert was already taped, due to the latest accusations of sexual misconduct swirling around him, a scheduled interview with actor Jeremy Piven was scrapped Friday.

Earlier this week, Emmy-winning actor Jeremy Piven “unequivocally” denied that he had in any way harassed or groped reality star Ariane Bellamar on two separate occasions. Apparently that denial was good enough for CBS. The Daily Mail reports that Piven was seen on the set of the CBS drama Wisdom of the Crowd Wednesday. Two more accusers have now come forward.

A new survey of some of the nation’s most polarizing brand names, finds the NFL ranking in higher on the polarization scale than several news networks: ABC CBS, Fox Business, the Huffington Post, and even Breitbart News.

The director of the annual CBS Diversity Sketch Comedy Show, Rick Najera, has resigned from the role over allegations of inappropriate comments.

Media Research Center Vice President of Business and Culture Dan Gainor joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Monday to discuss the media’s refusal to touch the Hillary Clinton Uranium One story and other topics.

As the NFL’s 2017 season began, all the league’s broadcast partners were deeply interested in showing the national anthem in order to highlight the protests by millionaire players. But, as Week 6 hit and ratings had slipped to record lows, those same broadcasters began to end their attention on the protests to avoid angering millions of NFL fans.

The NFL is scheduled to have a meeting on Tuesday to discuss, as Commissioner Goodell puts, moving “past the anthem controversy.” For CBS, the NFL couldn’t move past the anthem controversy fast enough.

It’s quite appropriate that a man who refuses to actually speak on his own future, would choose to subtweet the retracted story about his promise to stand for the anthem. It’s even more appropriate that he would choose to subtweet it while channeling someone else.

The woman perhaps, most singularly responsible for Colin Kaepernick remaining a free agent, and out of the NFL, has spoken. Much like you would expect, her words do not bode well for Kaepernick’s chances of resuming his career.

The NFL just learned a tremendously useful lesson, that will serve them well if they choose to continue to apply it. What is that lesson? Simply this: if you don’t protest, more people will watch your games.