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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC-owned Hispanic broadcast network Telemundo's Summer Olympics coverage drew 12 million unique persons during the first 10 days of the Games, surpassing by 12 percent the audience for its entire coverage of the 2004 Athens Games.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - ESPN and Major League Baseball Advanced Media announced Thursday that they have extended their new-media rights deal.

MONTREAL (Hollywood Reporter) - Canadian broadcaster CanWest Mediaworks will rebrand its domestic cable channel Lonestar, which centers on American Westerns, as MovieTime, a digital offering of popular Hollywood movies.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC Sports isn't going to have to wait long to experience the Michael Phelps ratings effect again.

ROME (Hollywood Reporter) - Television programs with medical and hospital themes get so many details wrong, according to a leading Italian medical group, that Italy's main broadcasters should refrain from airing them.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - When NBC makes a run for the U.S. rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics, it will have plenty of company.

BEIJING (Hollywood Reporter) - What do you do if you're a provincial Chinese broadcaster trying to make a yuan during an Olympics you're not allowed to broadcast?

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - After years of false starts aimed at bringing the Web to TV sets, Yahoo Inc said on Wednesday it is working with Intel Corp to create Web computer channels that run alongside TV shows.

PARIS (Reuters) - Residents of the historic Marais neighborhood in the heart of Paris are bracing themselves for an invasion of sequins and big hair as the reality TV show "Star Academy" moves into one of its 17th century town houses.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC is moving forward with its plans for a male-based "Supernanny" spinoff.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore," an online graphic novel, could be headed for television screens.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Stage and screen star Laurence Fishburne's last turn as a series regular on network television was the role of Cowboy Curtis on the 1980s kids show "Pee-wee's Playhouse."

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Tensions within the Screen Actors Guild mounted on Monday as the union's Hollywood-based leaders rejected a call by SAG's New York branch to bring in a federal mediator to break a deadlock in contract talks with major studios.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Talk-show host Wendy Williams has found a national home on the Fox Television Stations group.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - The John McCain campaign fired off an angry letter to NBC News criticizing Andrea Mitchell's comments regarding the "cone of silence" at Saturday night's presidential candidates' forum at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Critics and other members of the media hoping to get a sneak peek at the CW's upcoming series "90210" are out of luck.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Day nine of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, featuring swimmer Michael Phelps' historic gold-medal triumph, gave NBC its most watched Saturday prime-time broadcast in 18 years, the network said on Sunday.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Former NBA star Charles Barkley could be getting some golfing tips via a project in development at Golf Channel.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Food Network is getting into the competitive eating genre with a new series, tentatively titled "Eat the Clock."

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres married her long-time partner, actress Portia de Rossi, at their home in Los Angeles on Saturday, according to People magazine.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. automaker General Motors Corp. has pulled out of its longtime sponsorship of the Academy Awards, one of the biggest annual events on broadcast television, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Such is the nature of "Kung Fu Killer" that you can't tell whether the title pertains to the hero or the villain. Not that it matters because, in this miniseries, it's all about the kung fu and the killing, regardless of who's doing it. Between evil perpetrators and steadfast heroes, bodies pile up like mah-jongg tiles.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadians who may have become tired of being passed over as porn stars will have a new, home-grown outlet to showcase their erotic talents.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Hip-hop entrepreneur Percy Miller, a.k.a. Master P, is launching a family-friendly cable network, Better Black Television.

MUMBAI (Reuters) - "Celebrity Big Brother" star Jade Goody will take part in India's version of the British reality series, media reports said ahead of the show's launch on Sunday.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Alan Taylor, who is nominated for an Emmy for directing the pilot of AMC's "Mad Men," will direct HBO's comedy pilot "Bored to Death," starring Jason Schwartzman.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - For NBC Universal, balancing TV and online coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games has been as tricky as any maneuver on the balance beam, parallel bars or vault.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As a tireless questioner of authority and a consummate Washington insider, pioneering White House correspondent Helen Thomas has covered nine U.S. presidents over a span of nearly a half century.