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LOS ANGELES — The red-carpet area at the premiere of the Disney Channel’s new Cheetah Girls movie last week looked less like the typical Hollywood cast party than some sort of United Nations session. Adrienne Bailon, who plays Chanel in th...

Gearing up for a possible sale, Time Warner is splitting up AOL's Internet access business from its online operations. EarthLink is seen as a leading candidate to buy AOL's dial-up division while Microsoft and Yahoo could vie for online operations th...

AMSTERDAM (Dow Jones)--German media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG is among the bidders for Reed Elsevier's (RUK) unit Reed Business Information, a spokesman of Bertelsmann's unit Gruner + Jahr confirmed Thursday to Dow Jones Newswires.

The VCR was just the beginning. Now there's Web video, social networking sites, peer-to-peer file-sharing and blogs. The confusing twists and turns that copyright law takes when the Web is involved ensure that lawyers keep getting paid, but they ofte...

CosmoTV Now Available Cosmopolitan TV has launched on Rogers Cable in Ontario and New Brunswick, and is available as a free preview to all Rogers Digital Cable customers with a set-top box. Corus Entertainment's CosmoTV, created in partnersh...

Hulu prepping for international launches Hulu, NBC Universal and News Corporation's online video joint venture, is on the hunt for a head of international business development, as it looks to launch its VoD services outside the US....

Authorities in Iran have banned an Iranian actress on her way to Hollywood from leaving the country, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. Golshifteh Farahani, who had a starring role in Ridley Scott's latest movie 'Body of Lies,' was at Tehran's airport on her way to the US to study a new acting offer in Hollywood. Iranian movie stars need to request permission from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance to play in foreign productions, the news agency said. The ministry hasn't yet commented on the news of Farahani's appearance in Scott's film or her being banned from leaving the country, it said.

Before Hannah Montana, "High School Musical" and the Jonas Brothers, the biggest thing on the Disney Channel was the Cheetah Girls.

Just because its Disney Mobile MVNO failed, that doesn't mean Disney is giving up on selling mobile content to tweens. The company last fall launched a mobile Web site that acts as a clearinghouse Read more...

They're not a singing group but they play one on TV -- and very successfully, we might add. But don't even begin to get into it about whether the Cheetah Girls are friends in real life.