Under pressure from unhappy investors, CNET has slashed 10 percent of its workforce--or roughly 120 people. Yet Jana Partners, the investment firm that has made the most noise about its displeasure with CNET's management, is not satisfied.
Glenn Dryfoos, most recently executive vp for business affairs at Telemundo, has joined rival Univision Communications in the same role with the same title.
Clear Channel Communications was granted a temporary restraining order by Presiding District Court Judge John D. Gabriel of Bexar County, Texas against the six banks balking at financing the company's buyout deal with Thomas H. Lee Partners LP and Bain
Mary Bennett, executive vp of national marketing for the Radio Advertising Bureau for 12 years, is out as part of a reorganization of the RAB's marketing division.
Fox Sports Networks (FSN) will televise more than 1,600 games during the upcoming Major League Baseball season, including 1,000 games in high definition, more than double last year's HD schedule.
John Nogawski has been named president of CBS Television Distribution. Nogawski, who was formerly CTD's co-president and chief operating officer, will oversee all creative, business and administrative operations for CBS' domestic television division.
Touting local television stations as "high-quality, digital media, connected locally across all screens, capable of both broad and narrow targeting," Television Bureau of Advertising president Chris Rohrs advised advertisers to proceed with caution before pulling ad dollars out of local
While movies have long been the secret sauce that flavors most general-entertainment cable networks, a new deal brokered by FX and NBC Universal is particularly zesty.
Creative Artists Agency, Major League Baseball and several prominent professional athletes have partnered to launch weplay.com, a sports-themed community sites geared for kids and teens.
A jury convicted Christopher P. Ortega of one count of receiving stolen property (Pen. Code, 496, subd. (a)). The trial court placed Ortega on three years' probation, conditioned on, among other things, his serving 270 days in jail and paying
Edwin Acosta appeals from judgment entered after conviction following his negotiated plea of no contest to possession of methamphetamine. Defense counsel stipulated to a factual basis for the plea. The court sentenced Acosta to the agreed term of 16 months
Defendant Ronny Harris appeals his conviction by court trial to grand theft from the person of another (Pen. Code, 487, subd. (c)) (count 1), evading an officer (Veh. Code, 2800.2, subd. (a)) (count 2), and misdemeanor destruction of evidence (Pen.
Defendant D.M. appeals from an order of the juvenile court committing him to the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). His counsel has filed an opening brief that raises no issues and asks this court for an independent review of the
In a joint jury trial, Gerardo Vasquez and Nelson Perez were convicted of robbery (Pen. Code, 211), during which Vasquez personally used a firearm (id., 12022.53, subd. (b)) and Perez was armed with a firearm (id., 12022, subd. (a)(1)). The
Defendant Mario Alexander Sandoval appeals following his conviction of voluntary manslaughter (Pen. Code, 192, subd. (a))[1]and assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury ( 245, subd. (a)(1)), with an enhancement on the assault count for causing
A jury convicted defendant Robert Lawrence Tarr of continuous sexual conduct with a child under the age of 14 (Pen. Code, 288.5, subd. (a); undesignated section references are to the Penal Code); the jury also found that he committed great
The facts of this case are all too common. A gang member disrespects a rival gang member, threats are made, a weapon is retrieved, and someone is needlessly killed over mere words. As a consequence of misguided bravado, defendant Orlando
R.R. and his sister N.R. (Minors) appeal from orders of the Alameda County juvenile court entered after the six-month review hearing in their juvenile dependency case. (See Welf. & Inst. Code, 366.21, subd. (e).)[1] Minors object to two aspects of
