Spartan Echo

    NEW YORK (AP) — This time “you’re fired” is more than a Donald Trump catchphrase. Fox is turning the firing of real people from real jobs into prime-time entertainment starting this week. The network on Thursday, May 23, will begin airing “Does Someone Have to Go?” a series where cameras go into small businesses [...]

  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Television stations that relay Fox programming are “on board” with a threat to transition the over-the-air network to cable and satellite TV if Internet startup Aereo keeps reselling Fox’s signal without paying for rights, the chairman of a Fox group said Tuesday. Fox’s parent company, News Corp., owns just 27 [...]

  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Hampton Roads is getting ready for its close-up. Gov. Bob McDonnell says a television pilot being developed by CBS Television Studios for the CW network will be filming in the Hampton Roads area in March and April. The show entitled “Company Town,” will be filmed primarily at Fort Monroe in Hampton. It [...]

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Late night talk show host and comedian Conan O’Brien will be spending a late night with President Barack Obama. The White House Correspondents’ Association has chosen O’Brien as the featured act for its annual dinner on April 27. Association president Ed Henry called O’Brien “one of television’s most innovative and influential [...]