entertainment - "television"

When WPIX-TV began broadcasting from The News Building on Tuesday, June 15, 1948, it made a simple promise to New Yorkers, the overwhelming majority of whom did not yet own one of those new-fangled and pricey television sets.

A summary of today's Hollywood happenings in television.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former Bond girl Denise Richards, currently starring in a reality television series about her chaotic life, has one key thing to say to ex-husband Charlie Sheen now that he has remarried: stop picking on me.

SHARES of television and media group Ten Network fell 16 per cent today after it downgraded its full-year earnings for 2008.

Staunch poker fans know that this is the most exciting time of the year for the game with the 2008 World Series of Poker going on in Las Vegas. And anyone with a television or internet also knows that it is a thrilling time in basketball as well, as the NBA Championship series is right in the middle of the exciting finals between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers. read more in pokerworks.com

SO MUCH TV, so little time:_ The Parents television Council, unable to persuade more than 8.5 million people last week to skip the premiere of CBS' "Swingtown" - which it contends "drives a stake through the institution of marriage and family" - is at it again.

Neil MacNeil, one of television's first congressional correspondents, has died in Bethesda, Md., at age 85....

International News: Even boasts record 1,500 registered delegates -- More than $50,000 was awarded to producers pitching their works as this year's 29th Banff World television Festival, which boasted a record 1,500 registered delegates, as it wound down Wednesday.

'The Road Hammers' follows the members of the country band as they try to translate Canadian success into fame and fortune in Nashville.

Chipper and funny, 'Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List' exemplifies the way in which celebreality shows have taken over territory formerly occupied by situation comedies.