A company's bid to launch two cable channels expected to be critical of President Hugo Chavez was rejected Friday, Venezuela's state-run telecommunications agency announced. The agency said Empresas 1BC failed to meet a deadline for registering one new channel, RCTV Internacional, and its petition ...

Shane Mosley vowed to hand Floyd Mayweather jnr his first professional defeat as the two fighters touted their May 1 welterweight showdown in Hollywood style. "This fight is going to be on May 1st, but it's also going to be May's first (defeat)," said Mosley as the fighters wrapped up their cross-country publicity tour in the sunshine of ...

Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by the Nielsen Co. for the week of Feb. 22-28. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses: 1. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.74 million homes, 5.57 million viewers. 2. "WWE ...

Miss America's three year run on TLC is over after the cable network chose not to renew its television contract with the beauty pageant. TLC declined on Monday to say why it was cutting ties with the 89-year-old competition after the pageant's broadcast ...