Italian broadcaster Mediaset said Thursday that it would expand its satellite broadcast service to include the Disney Channel and all-sports channel Premium Calcio as it gears up to battle entrenched Italian satellite television leader Sky-Italia, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's
With consumer confidence having hit a 16-year low, one Merrill Lynch analyst predicts cable stocks will see a boon as U.S. consumers start cocooning and becoming bigger couch potatoes, while he suggests the boxoffice could see a drag.
Marketing of dramatic films benefits from a mix of media buys skewing heavily toward local television, while comedy campaigns get bigger bang for the buck from network spots, according to a recently issued research report.
Opening statements are under way in the trial of a Central Californiapreacher accused of causing a car crash that killed an elderly rancherto cover up the fact that he was stealing from him.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco is ready to step in to the middle of the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination. While maintaining a neutral stance on the candidates, Pelosi insisted she won't allow a convention fight.
13 states, including California, are have sued the Environmental Protection Agency to overturn federal ozone standards that the states say are too weak.
Antioch police arrested a suspected drug dealer Tuesday night after an officer pulled him over for a traffic violation and found about 5 pounds of marijuana in his vehicle, police reported Thursday.
A 43-year-old San Francisco man who was shot early Thursday morning in a drive-by shooting in Richmond's Iron Triangle neighborhood is in stable condition at a local hospital, Richmond police Sgt. Bisa French said.
A judge Thursday denied a bid for a preliminary injunction to an attorney who says the city of Oakland should return $60 million to its taxpayers because it has failed to live up to its promise to hire more police
A jury in San Francisco has found track coach Trevor Graham guilty of one count of lying to investigators about his relationship to a steroids dealer. Jurors could not reach a verdict on two other counts he was charged with.
A multi-agency investigation was under way today to determine what sparked a non-injury fire at a building at the Harbor Christian Center in Wilmington, the second fire at the center since last year. The blaze at 1551 N. Wilmington Blvd.
Trevor Graham, the track coach who blew the whistle on the BALCO steroids scandal and then was accused of doping his own athletes, was convicted today of one count of lying to federal investigators about his contacts with an admitted
A man found shot and killed in a pickup truck in Santa Rosa was identified by the Sonoma County coroner's office today as 26-year-old Juan Carlos Sandoval. Sandoval, who lived in Santa Rosa, and a second man were found shot
