Topic: Television

The Spanish contestant in the pan-European singing show “Eurovision” has said her crisis-hit country would struggle to host the next event if she were to win the competition, according to various reports.

Every so often, a movie depicts a character in an outfit that becomes iconic. What follows is a list of those that made an article of clothing famous, made characters famous for fashion sense, or managed some combination of the two.

The oldest newsmagazine on television, “60 Minutes,” might have figured out how to halt the aging process. Purposefully but almost imperceptibly, the CBS News program, the most popular of its genre, has become younger in recent years. Stalwarts like Steve Kroft and Lesley Stahl have been joined by new contributors like Lara Logan and Anderson Cooper. And the program has embraced the Web to a degree that some of its older viewers have not, selling an iPad app on iTunes and promoting a weekly online show, “Overtime.”

The Avengers" proved that five superheroes are better than one by bursting into Hollywood's record books with a massive $200.3 million in ticket sales over its opening weekend in U.S. and Canadian theaters, kicking off Hollywood's summer movie season with a bang.

Wayne Shannon, whose quirky "What's It All Mean" commentaries were a staple in the early years of CNBC, has been found dead.

The TV industry is on the brink of a revolution thanks to the convergence of personal computers, the Internet and television. CNBC spoke with media heavyweights, tech titans and Internet innovators to get their predictions of where television is heading, and how they hope to be involved.

We're on the verge of yet another transformation of TV advertising. In the new model users won't be able to skip ads as easily — but they won't want to, because the ads will be as interesting as the content itself.

Television used to be a fairly straightforward, one-way experience. Now technology is becoming more interactive and even making the viewer the remote.

The race is on: Hulu and Netflix broke new ground when they offered consumers streaming content on demand. But now they're facing more competition than ever.

Michael Eisner, the former chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Co,  is trying to raise $800 million for a new film and television production company, according to people who have been approached about investing.

Foreign companies doing business in China must navigate a business culture in which bribery is rife, finding ways to remove obstacles to expanding in the world's second-largest economy without running afoul of local or home-country laws.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has sent letters of inquiry to at least five movie studios including News Corp's 20th Century Fox, Disney and Dreamworks Animation over potential inappropriate payments in China.

It is the police procedural that has network executives scratching their heads this season: The Case of the Disappearing Viewers.

"Avatar" and "Titanic" film director James Cameron said on Sunday that he was looking at co-production of films in China, but would have to weigh issues like censorship and other restrictions before making any decisions.

Dick Clark, the television host who helped bring rock `n' roll into the mainstream on "American Bandstand," has died. He was 82.