Jessica Toonkel reveals how TV networks in America are now measuring viewers’ biometrics and brain waves in the war to preserve their advertising market share and win viewers back from the online world.

Tributes have poured in for American comedian Joan Rivers following her death at the age of 81.

Members of the gay community will be able to march in New York’s famous St Patrick’s Day Parade under their own banner for the first time after organisers said they were lifting a longstanding ban.

Ryan Seacrest is being sued over copyright infringement on Khloe Kardashian's reality show.

Kate Hudson was "shocked" to find out she was pregnant two months after she started dating Matt Bellamy.

The Tonight Show has shed about two dozen workers, prompting host Jay Leno to accept a pay cut to spare other staffers as NBC clamps down on expenses.

General Electric Co topped Wall Street’s profit and revenue forecasts for the first quarter, helped by strong demand for energy equipment and railroad locomotives — after taking a $200m (€152.5m) hit on its Irish mortgage business

24's Jack Bauer has been named as the hottest TV crime fighter ever.

GENERAL ELECTRIC posted second-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ estimates, buoyed by itsfinance unit, as the industrial order backlog rose to a record level.

BROADCAST revenues between 2014 and 2016 for the Olympic Games will exceed €2.79billion, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge confirmed in Durban yesterday.

GENERAL Electric (GE) posted an 80% rise in first-quarter profit, helped by a strong recovery in its finance arm, that topped Wall Street expectations.

A Palestinian shopkeeper and father portrayed as a terrorist in the film 'Bruno' is suing Sacha Baron Cohen, US talk show host David Letterman and others for defamation.

Fairfield, Connecticut: General Electric Co’s third-quarter profit declined 45% as the company scaled back property and consumer lending and sold fewer medical machines, leading to a steeper drop in sales than analysts projected.

MICHAEL JACKSON’S memorial was last night poised to be a global internet video-viewing event that eclipses even the inauguration of US President Barack Obama.

The elderly woman suing funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen for assault over a stunt for upcoming controversial comedy ‘Bruno’ has suffered "life-altering" injuries as a result of his prank, according to her lawyer.

A woman is suing NBC Universal and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, claiming a scene for Cohen’s upcoming film Bruno left her disabled.

A woman is suing NBC Universal and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, claiming a scene for Cohen’s upcoming film 'Bruno' left her disabled.

Striking Hollywood writers could begin informal talks with studio chiefs next week in an effort to end a two-month walkout that has hit the US entertainment industry, according to reports.

Hopes were raised today that the Oscars could still go ahead next month after Hollywood directors reached a tentative contract deal with studios.

Striking Hollywood writers have decided not to picket tomorrow’s Golden Globe Awards after organisers changed it from an exclusive TV broadcast to an event open to all media.

Organisers of the Oscars insisted the show would go on next month despite the Golden Globe ceremony being cancelled due to the Hollywood writers’ strike.

Nominations for this year's British Comedy Awards were announced today but organisers still do not know if the event will be shown on ITV.

HULU, an online video service formed by two media conglomerates, began private testing yesterday with two new partners in one of big media’s most ambitious attempts to court viewers wherever they spend time.

The Premier League has sued YouTube, saying the video-sharing website was engaging in massive copyright infringement by showing footage of games.

America’s Universal Studios will develop a £1.1bn (€1.6bn) theme park – modelled after those in Florida, California and Japan – in Dubai, a government firm has announced.

MTV owner Viacom today said it has sued YouTube and its corporate parent Google in a US federal court for alleged copyright infringement and is seeking more than €731.9m in damages.

Surging oil prices pulled stocks sharply lower for a third straight session today, with bland earnings at General Electric Co. and weak consumer data further dampening the economic outlook. The Dow Jones industrial average shed 396 points in the past three days.

US stocks finished mixed today as interest rate worries and a legal setback for Merck & Co countered momentum from a possible multi-billion-dollar acquisition by ConocoPhillips.

Paramount Pictures today said it had agreed to buy independent film studio DreamWorks SKG Inc. in a deal worth 1.6bn US dollars (€1.36bn) in cash and debt.

NBC closed its deal to merge with the Universal entertainment businesses today, creating a new media conglomerate that will take its place alongside giants such as Time Warner and Viacom.