Reuters - NBC Universal on Tuesday formally announced the most wide-ranging coverage plan for any Olympics in history, including 225 hours over 17 days on NBC and 3,600 hours total across TV, online and mobile.

Reuters - The smaller of Hollywood's two performers unions said on Tuesday that its members have ratified a new prime-time TV contract, undermining a last-ditch bid by the larger, more militant Screen Actors Guild to secure a richer deal.

AP - You wouldn't necessarily know it from last week, but Nielsen Media Research says TV viewership is on the rise.

AP - Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for June 30-July 6. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.

Reuters - The Chicago Tribune told staff on Tuesday that it will cut 80 of its 578 newsroom jobs by the end of August, joining other Tribune newspapers that are laying off staff and trimming the size of their papers as they try to save money, according to a report on the paper's website.

Reuters - Chances appear slim that Congress will vote this year on legislation requiring terrestrial radio stations to pay artists and labels performance royalties to play their recordings.

Reuters - Struggling music subscription services have opened a new front in their battle for legitimacy: the mobile phone.

Reuters - Gannett Co Inc said on Tuesday that it has bought stakes in retail marketing and database services company ShopLocal LLC from fellow newspaper publishers McClatchy Co and Tribune Co.

Reuters - DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc plans to use chips from Intel Corp for the creation of 3-D movies, the companies said on Tuesday.

Reuters - Let the games begin.

AP - Will Smith owned the Fourth of July again at the box office.

AP - Arlan Ettinger will never forget the response he got when he took one of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks' hats to a meeting at the Apollo Theater in New York.

AP - On-location movie shoots are on the rise in Los Angeles, despite repeated warnings from Hollywood studios that the possibility of an actors strike had stalled moviemaking, a permitting group said Wednesday.

AP - Standing in the photo-lined hallway, you can almost hear the history.

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