Medhi Hasan said that he is leaving MSNBC after the network cancelled his weekend show. “I’ve decided that it’s time for me to look for a new challenge,” he said at the end of his program on Sunday. The network shuffled its weekend lineup last year, dropping his weekend show while saying that he…

Broadcaster Audacy filed for bankruptcy today, a move blamed on plummeting advertising for radio. The firm owns KROQ and KCBS in Los Angeles and WFAN and WINS in New York, but the move is not expected to have any immediate impact on day-to-day operations. Audacy has already negotiated a prepackaged…

Authentic Brands Group, the company that licenses the Sports Illustrated brand, has warned the publisher that it may terminate its contract “absent a cure” after a fee payment was missed. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, publisher Arena Group said it did not make a…

In a highly unusual move, the Smashing Pumpkins are soliciting a new guitarist with a general call-out. The group announced Friday that they’re seeking to add a third guitarist to founding vocalist and guitarist Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha, and drummer Jimmy Chamberlain. The group has big…

Joseph Lelyveld, who won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction for his book, Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White, and was a former executive editor and foreign correspondent for The New York Times, died on Friday at his Manhattan home. He was 86 and succumbed to complications of…

Less than a year after signing a reported $85 million deal spread over five years to join ESPN, host Pat McAfee is not happy with at least one network executive., McAfee accused ESPN executive Norby Williamson by name in a Friday segment. Speaking to his cohost, A.J. Hawk, saying he was part of a…

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off state ballots. The justices have set Feb. 8 for oral arguments in Trump’s challenge of a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that found him ineligible for the state primary ballot. The Colorado judges…

AMC Entertainment stock fell 2% today and dropped 15% this week to establish a new all-time, split-adjusted low of $5.17. It is a notable turnaround after the unlikely boost delivered in 2020 by meme-happy individual investors who built positions even as movie theaters were shuttered by…

Joe Biden, in his first reelection speech of 2024, sought to focus the coming year’s theme on the threat that Donald Trump poses to American democracy. Tied to Saturday’s third anniversary of the attack on the Capitol, the speech also was intended to be a reminder of what happened that day, amid…

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off success with the acclaimed docs Sly and Willie Nelson & Family, respectively chronicling the lives and careers of Sylvester Stallone and the iconic same-name country artist, Thom Zimny has signed with Artists First. The production and management company will look for opportunities to…

A group of Florida state legislators voted on Friday to move forward with a bill that would reverse Governor Ron DeSantis’ successful effort last year to strip the Walt Disney Co. of control of a special district that oversees the company’s theme park properties. But the bill has long odds in…

David Muir and Linsey Davis will moderate the network’s pre-New Hampshire primary Republican debate on Jan. 18. The event, co-sponsored by WMUR-TV, has traditionally been one of the more influential debates of the cycle. But CNN also has scheduled its own New Hampshire debate on Jan. 21, two days…