Fox News Channel's star host Bill O'Reilly has canceled a series of TV interviews to promote his new children's book days after a former producer accused him in a lawsuit of sexual harassment, his publisher said Monday. The normally outspoken conservative commentator scrapped appearances that had been scheduled for Friday on ABC's "The View" and HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher", and for Monday on CBS' "The Early Show," Harper Entertainment spokesman Seale Ballenger told Reuters.

About 20 young people gathered in front of MTV's studio on Broadway yesterday holding signs and making noise - and it wasn't to catch a glimpse of a hot pop star.

Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., whose recent deal with radio "shock jock" Howard Stern rocked the broadcasting world, Tuesday said its subscription list has exceeded the 700,000 mark.

French media network Havas has limited its exposure as a takeover target after it successfully reduced its debt through a rights offer of 122.5 million shares.

Pulitzer Inc. on Tuesday reported a nearly 13 percent increase in quarterly profit, helped by classified advertising gains at its newspapers.

The major presidential candidates, parties and interest groups are well on their way to surpassing $500 million in television advertising spending by election day - smashing the record of four years ago - as President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry continue to tear into each other on the airwaves in 14 states, an independent report showed Monday.

Direct Marketing Association president/CEO John A. Greco Jr. laid out his agenda for the association and its members yesterday during the DMA's 87th Annual Conference & Exhibition.

Senator John Kerry could find his presidential hopes damaged this week when the 62 television stations owned or managed by the Sinclair Broadcasting Group carry a documentary about his antiwar activities 30 years ago.

Sinclair Broadcast Group's political ideology last week clashed with its pocketbook, as protesters aimed squarely at the company's national and local advertisers shortly after news reports broke that Sinclair is making its 62 TV stations in 39 markets pull network prime-time programming to air a one-hour documentary critical of presidential candidate John Kerry.

The 77th Annual Academy Awards are still four months away, but movie studios are already placing ads positioning their films "for your consideration" - industry code for "how about an Oscar?"