SeaWorld Entertainment reports earnings after the market closes.
Martin Sheen's exploits were far more private, coming before the age of more aggressive entertainment reporting.
Critics have said that, in a crowded field, "Entertainment Tonight" has grown sensationalistic, and has ceded its old turf -- straight entertainment reporting -- to "Access Hollywood".
But the pace on 101.9, whose call letters are WEMP-FM, was breezier, with more entertainment reports and some lighthearted segments on family and health.
He calls a squabble over "Idol Gives Back," the show's charity component, "the largest fight I have ever directly encountered in entertainment reporting" — and says little more.
Under Mark Thompson, the previous BBC director general who is now the chief executive of The New York Times Company, the broadcaster instituted an exhaustive new bureaucracy to deal with potential crises arising from news and entertainment reports.
"Whether it is our real-time business, financial and economic coverage, our expert reporting on technology, our broad coverage of global politics and policy, our unrivalled sports, culture, fashion, arts and entertainment reporting, we continue to extend the reach of our journalism while striving to shed light on the issues that matter most".
Variety, the leaky flagship of entertainment reporting, had recently let go of its senior film and theater reviewers, Todd McCarthy and David Rooney, further thinning the ranks of critics employed by daily and weekly newspapers and magazines of all kinds over the past few years.
RealNetworks of Seattle, which makes software for putting audio-video content onto the Internet and sells online entertainment, reported strongly improved first-quarter revenue yesterday but a wider loss, exacerbated by the costs of its antitrust suit against arch rival Microsoft.
Entertainment reporting: Sergio Burstein.
