Robert Siegel talks to Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. Alwaleed is the biggest individual foreign investor in the U.S. The 56-year-old Saudi prince wields no political power in the house of Saud, but he is the richest man in Saudi Arabia — and the 26th richest man in the world.
The NBC Sports Group chairman has resigned. The longtime NBC executive has been closely associated with NBC's broadcasts of the Olympics — as well as the creation of Saturday Night Live. Dick Ebersol leaves as NBC's operations are reconfigured by Comcast.
The Atlantic hurricane season begins in less than two weeks. Forecasters warn it's likely to be another busy one. At a news conference Thursday, government officials said climate factors remain conducive to hurricanes.
After 29 years, Mary Hart is stepping down as host of the CBS show Entertainment Tonight – presumably with those legs once insured for a million dollars each. It's television's longest-running entertainment show, and Hart's been with it almost since the beginning. She helped create a kind of news that, like it or not, has come to permeate the culture.
Before Entertainment Tonight, regular folks weren't expected to be interested in the industry side of the entertainment industry.
CBS is not shy about telling you that they're introducing fewer fall shows for the simple reason that they have fewer holes in their schedule. (Another sign of their confidence: They've moved the comedy Rules Of Engagement to Saturday night, a time slot networks had basically abandoned as a home for new programming.
With that said, they do have three new dramas and two new comedies coming this fall, so let's have a look at the promo trailers.
You’re familiar with the terms “middle school” and “college” but chances are you’ve never heard of a “middle college.” That concept is now reality in central Kentucky.
Los Tigres del Norte earned the respect they've generated in the music business and among their fans the hard way: note by note, line by line and mile by mile.
To explain the one of a kind connection to their audience, let me offer a short behind-the-scenes story about covering them for NPR News.
"Assisted suicide crusader Jack Kevorkian was readmitted to the hospital last night because of a recurring kidney condition and pneumonia," his lawyer tells the Detroit Free Press.
Hear how the gift of music appreciates through the generations. We celebrate musical legacies with Gaelic singer Flora MacNeil, whose daughter Maggie MacInnes has inherited her mother's song passion, Maddie Prior and her daughter Rose, and Mary and Frances Black with their Mum.
