Joining the growing number of broadcasters seeking to expand beyond television, DirecTV has launched Yaveo, its first Internet-only subscription video service, which will feature Spanish-language ...

News Corp. shareholders on Tuesday formally approved the planned split of the conglomerate into an entertainment and a publishing company, the Hollywood Reporter says.

Brian Calle, opinion editor for Southern California News Group, will leave his post to become an operating partner overseeing the operations of LA Weekly. The plan, confirmed by Calle, comes on the ...

“Star Wars” movies could soon be coming to Netflix – but only in Latin America. The streaming service is in negotiations with Burbank’s Walt Disney Co., which owns the rights to most of the Star Wars ...

L.A.’s new taco trucks don’t necessarily sell tacos but all kinds of non-Mexican fare. Last week, the Los Angeles Dodgers rolled out a taco truck that doesn’t even sell food. The Dodgers Ticket Truck, ...

Tweetup, the Twitter advertising startup from Pasadena’s Idealab, said on Tuesday that it has acquired Twidroid, which has developed a popular Twitter application for cell phones using Google’s ...

CALENDAR Tuesday, Sept. 13 Light at the End of the Tunnel? Sponsor: Southern California Development Forum 7:15 a.m. Luxe Hotel 11462 Sunset Blvd., ...

The CBS broadcast network and Showtime premium cable channel have gone dark for Time Warner Cable subscribers in Los Angeles. The signals were dropped on Friday after CBS Corp. and Time Warner failed ...

Los Angeles content distributor Cinedigm Corp. is selling back its Hollywood Software unit to an investor group led by David Gajda, one of the software company’s founders. Financial terms of the ...

A unit of Salem Communications Corp. has acquired SermonSpice.com, an online media provider for churches and ministries. The Camarillo company said that SermonSpice of Fresno will augment the ...

Carson magazine will debut on newsstands this week, but it’s not a publication named after the L.A. city where David Beckham and his teammates play for the Galaxy. Its namesake is David Carson, who ...

Guitar Center employees know their instruments; after all, many of them are musicians. But that means they get called for sessions, rehearsals and gigs – even tours. And that poses a conflict with a ...