4 posts and columns on Simon Cowell

Voices

Sirius XM: Is Howard Stern Moving to American Idol?

in News on February 5, 2010 at 12:04 pm PT

Could Howard Stern be the next Simon Cowell? The New York Post reports that the producers of American Idol are eager to hire Stern for the show.

Viral Video: The NBC Late-Night Bonfire Singes "American Idol"

in News on January 12, 2010 at 12:02 am PT

Yesterday, BoomTown posted on the mess created by NBC over its late-night talk show wrangling and all the good online videos that have resulted. The fracas involves Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien and seemingly every dude who sits behind a desk and kisses up to celebrities for a living. Leno is still on a slow burn over the debacle, even as daytime talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres enters the brouhaha being created by Simon Cowell leaving “American Idol” just as she joins the show as a judge. And that means more videos!
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Good Luck Trying to Share the Angelic Voice of Susan Boyle

in News on April 16, 2009 at 4:00 am PT

Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle is indeed all she is cracked up to be. But her virality on the Internet is not, even though she has–in fact–become an Internet sensation. Though the performance of the unemployed 47-year-old woman–dressed in a dowdy frock, wowing the judges on the television show, “Britain’s Got Talent” with an astonishing rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” from the musical “Les Miserables”–has been viewed many millions of times now and growing, it’s not easy to move it around on the Web. It should be.
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The Three Caballeros?–Bostock, Ballmer and…Bewkes?

in News on January 18, 2009 at 1:07 am PT

It wasn’t just Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer meeting in New York last week. According to several sources close to the situation, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes rounded out the trio of chit-chatting execs, presumably gathered to discuss possible partnerships and other deals between and amongst the companies whose digital assets are among the largest on the Web. Although the possibilities are numerous, exactly what Bostock, Ballmer and Bewkes–let’s call them the Busy B’s from here on out–were cooking up is unclear.