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Former “Backstage” host Barry Nolan - sacked for lashing out over a local award given to Fox News big wig Bill O’Reilly - has lost his $1.2 million lawsuit against CN8 and Comcast. In a written decision yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Rya Zobel said Nolan’s agreement with Comcast allowed the company to fire him “without notice, for any reason, or no reason at all.” “Although one-sided, it is nonetheless valid,” Judge Zobel wrote. Nolan, a veteran TV personality who had worked for Comcast for five years, had argued that his termination violated his right to free speech under state...

Fired “Backstage” host Barry Nolan is suing Comcast and CN8 for more than a million bucks, saying the cable company violated his constitutional right to rip Fox News bigfoot Bill O’Reilly when they sent Nolan packing last spring. “This media outlet violated the very Constitutional principles upon which the press relies for its ability to speak freely and fetter (sic) out the truth,” Nolan says in his $1.2 million lawsuit. Nolan, you may remember, went on a jihad last April when the Boston Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences chose to honor Mr. No Spin Zone...

CN8 host Barry Nolan , who publicly complained a few weeks ago about Bill O'Reilly receiving an award from the Boston chapter of National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, has been fired by the Comcast network. "Their take is that I was insubordinate," Nolan told us yesterday. "They wanted me to sit down and shut up." The host of "Backstage With Barry Nolan" had argued that O'Reilly, the volatile Fox News host and former Channel 7 anchor, was unworthy of the Governor's Award. (Past recipients include the likes of Mike Wallace, Ken Burns, and Natalie Jacobson.) "The idea of...