Are You Ready For YouTube TV? YouTube TV, the new online TV service from the Google-owned OTT giant, went live Wednesday in a handful of markets – New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco/Bay Area, Chicago and Philadelphia -- with more U.S. cit... Read More...
Group Sues Sony Over Royalties If you have a certain memory of hearing the TSOP “Soul Train” theme song as a beckoning to stop whatever you were doing and run to the TV or watching your sister and her BFF’s lip syncing “When Will I See You A... Read More...
Another Radio One Lawsuit Filed In Georgia Radio One is being sued in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia-Atlanta Division over what the plaintiff calls unsolicited text messages sent to his phone. The suit, filed by Wayne H. Norman... Read More...
Lee Daniels Announces Empire Spinoff If Lee Daniels has his way, there will be two versions of Empire on television and with the recent announcement of a greenlight for season 4 of the music industry-based drama, Lee appears to have the keys t... Read More...
T.I.’s Open Letter To Obama Goes Viral Atlanta- based Grammy® Award winning rapper/entrepreneur Clifford “T.I.P.” Harris recently took a break from the stage and wrote an open letter to President Barack Obama that has gone viral, reflecting on ... Read More...
Common and Jamie Foxx Headed to Showtime Showtime has ordered Lena Waithe’s hour-long Chicago-set drama titled “The Chi,” The show is a revamp of a project that was initially announced in late 2015 when Showtime ordered a pilot, executive produced and... Read More...
The Return of Live 365 Radio Last week it was revealed that the year-ago demise of Live365, the pioneering internet radio platform for small webcasters was slated to return. The sad fate of Live365 emblemized the disruption caused by new w... Read More...
Pastor Kim Burrell: Homophobic Intolerant or Scorned Divorcé As the news cycle turns, Mariah Carey has got to be raising a glass not to the new year but to Kim Burrell for replacing her as THE trending story of 2017. The industry fish grease has not been this hot since t... Read More...
Celebrity Deaths Drive Music Sales in 2016 According to Nielsen, the unusually high number of deaths of iconic musicians this year and the rush of fans to scoop up their albums will likely boost the bottom lines of the major record labels. While co... Read More...
Coming to the Stage – “Tina: The Musical” According to The Hollywood Reporter, music legend, Tina Turner, will be the subject of a new theatrical biographical musical being developed in London by Netherlands-based Stage Entertainment. The show's workin... Read More...