Alec Baldwin is going to skip out on the Emmys tonight, after Fox axed his joke about Rupert Murdoch that might have hit too close to home. Baldwin was slated to use his low-talking charms to play a fictional TV executive in the opening video for the Emmys tonight. But News Corp-owned Fox didn't like his joke about the company's phone-hacking scandal, according to Deadline Hollywood. more ›

Behind every media mogul is an even stronger baronness. Meet Wendi Deng, Rupert Murdoch's third and current wife. Earlier Tuesday she took down an attacker who snuck up behind her husband and stuffed a plate of shaving cream in his face during the hearing. more ›

A cheeky new logo, a revamped site and new account integration with Facebook may not be enough to keep Beverly Hills-based MySpace afloat and 50 percent of its employees could face layoffs, according to All Things Digital. more ›

Beginning Friday, Time Warner Cable customers may not have access to their favorite shows like the Simpsons, Glee, Fringe and even the Sugar Bowl on its various channels. The two companies have yet to reach an agreement on the per subscriber reimbursement fee. "FOX wants up to 50% more per subscriber compared to the other major networks fees and Time Warner isn't happy about that," explained LAist's TV Junkie Tom Lewis in Monday's column. "Unless you want your fee to get a non-significant hike, you shouldn't be happy about it either." more ›

Our friends at Radar are celebrating the recent launch of News Corp's Fox Business Network with a challenging quiz: Fox News Anchor or Porn Star?. We got 7 out of 10, but hey, when it comes to skankiness on the tube, Rupe, O'Reilly, Hannity, et al may really be the ones missing the plot. Mark at the News Corpse blog takes this notion even further, alleging that Murdoch's use of "soft-core titillation and America’s... more ›

NSFW as far as the video contains Hennessy and lingerie. more ›

Do you want to get screwed? I know this sell-out whore who will screw anybody for five billion dollars. All you gotta do is call this number: 1-800-JOURNAL (1-800-568-7623). Just ask for Dow Jones, or Wall Street Journal, as that sell-out whore is known as on the street. But be careful because Dow Jones is crazy and could turn on you at any time. Everyone says that Down Jones used to be pretty honest... more ›

In like a fox and out with a yodel? Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo for $50 billion. Many have speculated that Microsoft would eventually spring for big Y, as a marriage with the online media giant increasingly appears to be the most viable option to compete with Google in the great war of search and online advertising. Always a fun rumor to kick around, but today it's being corroborated by the WSJ, and considering... more ›

Last week Michael Richards hired a mouthpiece because his mouth was clearly defective. PR genius Howard Rubenstein (David Blaine, Worldwide Pants, Danielle Steel, News Corp) was called in to put out the fire and one of the first things that he addressed was the issue that the actor most-commonly known as Kramer went off in April on an anti-Semitic rant while on-stage. Rubenstein basically said it was kosher because Richards "is Jewish. He's not... more ›

Apparently the book didn't fit either. When even Bill O'Reilly said that the fictitious book and made-for-tv interview were in bad taste you knew there was trouble in sleezadise. Today Rupert Murdoch himself, a man so old he could drive a Buick through a serene Farmers Market crowd and get away with murder, canceled plans to publish the fiction by ReganBooks called "If I Did It", and the subsequent two-part interview of O.J. Simpson... more ›

From when the polls open until they close, there will be one cable outlet showing non-stop Arnold Schwarzenegger, at no cost to the incumbent Governor. Encore Action, channel 532 if you have DirecTV, will be having an Arnold Marathon today with a nice little rotation of Terminator, T2, and Conan The Destroyer. Interesting day to play these fine films all day and all night. Encore is owned by Starz, which is owned by Liberty... more ›

Last summer Fox's Rupert Murdoch bought LA Internet start-up MySpace for $600 million; now, almost a year later, Fox execs are speculating that the social networking phenomenom is worth about five times that, according to the British site The Observer, which wrote two stories today about the media giant.

MySpace is one of those online places where young people hang out - though 'swarm' might be a more accurate term for the kind of 'social networking' that goes on there. It is fantastically popular with teenagers, who use it to link up with online 'friends'. And it has been growing at internet speed. When Murdoch bought it last July, it had 16 million visitors. By the end of 2005 it had 29 million and currently claims to have 55 million registered users. more ›

Santa Monica-based MySpace.com announced its plans to create its own label dubbed "MySpace Records" that will be manufactured by Universal Music Group's Interscope Records and distributed by Universal's indie Fontana Distribution. Earlier this year, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. purchased MySpace's parent company, Intermix Media for approximately $580 million. more ›