2. “American Idol” (Wednesday), Fox, 17.68 million. 3. “American Idol” (Thursday), Fox, 16.4 million. 4. “Dancing With the Stars,” ABC, 15.79 million. 5. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 15.19 million. 6. “Criminal Minds,” CBS, 13.68 million. 7. “Person of Interest,” CBS, 13.47 million. 8. “Dancing With the Stars Results,” ABC, 13.23 million. 9. “The Mentalist,” CBS, [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reappeared on television Tuesday a week and a half after returning from cancer treatment in Cuba./ppChavez led a televised Cabinet meeting, seated at a table with aides. He spoke for more than two hours and expressed optimism about his re-election bid in the Oct. 7 presidential election./ppChavez said he [...]

By DAVID BAUDER NEW YORK The maker of a new DVR that lets consumers zap away broadcast TV commercials at the touch of a button suggested Tuesday that the networks are being short-sighted in opposing the technology. The Dish Network, which has offered its new Auto Hop feature on new digital video recorders since March, [...]

His death was announced by the Zenith Electronics Corporation, where Mr. Polley began his career in the stockroom before rising through the engineering ranks to invent the device, called the Flash-Matic, in 1955. “Just think!,” an advertisement breathlessly proclaimed that year. “Without budging from your easy chair you can turn your new Zenith Flash-Matic set [...]

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – Medical Alarm Concepts Holding, Inc. (otcqb:MDHI.PK), today announced it has begun realizing revenues from its largest ever set of orders for the MediPendant(TM) personal medical alarm, which offers patented two-way voice technology, enabling the user to speak and listen directly through the pendant. The [...]

In a small ship anchored off of Lemesurier Island in Alaska’s Inside Passage a naturalist shares a few parting words to a group of tourists in the ship’s lounge, and then flips back-first into the icy water. Covered head to toe in a neoprene dry suit and armed with an HD camera and high intensity [...]

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NEW YORK — Broadcast television networks are determined to make you laugh. The resurgence of situation comedies is the clearest trend to emerge from TV’s helter-skelter week of fall schedule announcements that just concluded. ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC will have 30 half-hour comedies on the air at the beginning of next season – 32 [...]

On May 20, the world lost yet another musical gem when Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb died at the age of 62. The singer and his two brothers, Barry and Maurice Gibb, experienced breakout success with their soundtrack to 1977′s Saturday Night Fever, which included hits like “How Deep Is Your Love” and “Stayin’ Alive.” [...]

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL, May 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) – O2 Secure Wireless, Inc. (pinksheets:OTOW) is pleased to announce that the O2USA Card television commercial has been aired on a block of national cable networks. The television commercial, in its first three weeks, has run 242 times on 78 different television shows at numerous times [...]