NBC'S golf coverage gets a new name

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       Robert M.  a mychiller contributor.

      Comcast owns the Golf Channel  , NBC has golf coverage too, Comcast owns NBC now. NBC's golf coverage has been renamed "GolfChannel on NBC" kind of like , when ESPN (owned by Disney) and ABC (owned by Disney) renamed ABCSports to ESPN on ABC in 2006. NBC Sports is not being renamed anything , at least at this time. So it's not CSN on NBC or Versus on NBC  ,but will tell you if they do. Meanwhile CNBC has been doing business updates on Golf channel during the mornings.

Dancing with the stars (Season 12 cast) annouced

    Reality TV , ABC , Dancing with the Stars
      The New season of Dancing with stars  is coming here are the people starting.
Kirstie Alley

Profession: Actress

You Might Know Her From: 'Cheers'

Age: 60
"Psycho" Mike Catherwood

Profession: Radio DJ

You Might Know Him From: L.A.'s KROQ and as the co-host of 'Loveline' -- more here!

Age: About 31

Kathleen Parker out at CNN

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     Kathleen Parker is leaving CNN , she was co-host of "Parker Spitzer" with Fmr. NewYork governor Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer will will stay at CNN and the show will be renamed "In the Arena" with a guest group of panelists including Spitzer.
 CNN/U.S. executive VP Ken Jautz in a memo to staff:

 “We will be adopting an ensemble format with several newsmakers, guests and contributors joining Eliot Spitzer each night. The new program will be called, “In the Arena,” beginning Monday. E.D. Hill and Will Cain will join the program as well others within and outside the CNN family.”

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Superbowl SundayTV watch 6February 2011 and more for the week

   Happy Sunday  everyone, It's superbowl sunday and here are some what to look at for TV tonight.
       First  off  course, the Superbowl. The Packers take on the  Steelers tonight at 6:24PMET on FOX.
   Watch out for some new ads and amazing ones that some will only air on TV once.  Berfore the game FOX has pregame coverage , including an interview with the President with Bill O'Reily from FOXNEWS.

Comcast takes over NBC officially

nbc universal logo from 2004-2011

    Two weeks ago the FCC officially allowed Comcast to buy a  51% stake in NBC universal . On Thursday January 27th 2011, it officially was done  and now comcast owns a majority of NBC.
 Some changes you notice is the new logo (which you can see on the left).
Comacast's cable networks and NBC universal's cable networks are now together.

new logo under com

   In the deal, Comcast paid General Electric just under $6.2 billion in cash and contributed its pay TV channels such as E! Entertainment Television and The Golf Channel, worth $7.25 billion, to NBC Universal.

The Media Opinion : The Tuscon shootings and the media

By Robberta S.  for mychiller
   The events of Saturday, January 8th in Tuscon  where the shooting suspect, Jared Loughner, 22, is accused of assassinate , Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords , murdering 6 others , and wounding 14 more. The media took this a whole other direction. Right after the shooting , the sheriff blamed talk radio and "certain" tv hosts. The media took advantage of this.
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FOX changes American Idol time and other FOX news.

  FOX has decided to change "American Idol" from Tuesdays and Wednesdays,  to Wednesdays to Thursdays. The change is to keep the popular "Glee".

Conan Returns to TV

      This week marked the return of Conan O Brien , the former "Tonight Show", and "Late Night"  host now has a new show in late night for the cable network TBS called "Conan" The Program airs 11PM Eastern time 8pm Pacific Time. He has spent many of his time this week blasting NBC. The show was good for his fans , but his way as an interview is still not the best.  Though , TBS is happy with the ratings they got including a great lead in for their late night show "Lopez Tonight", which moved 1 hour later for Conan. Advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic range are holding strong, and his audience's median age is a young 32. In its first week, the show averaged a very respectable 2.9 million total viewers -- with 2.16 million of those in the 18-49 range, which puts him above all the other late night shows.
     In other late night show news
 ABC's latenight news program "Nightline"  has been number 1 on the networks for 5 weeks in arow.