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  • NBC Needs To Groom Leno Successor
    Though his good-guy image took a serious hit during the battle wi ...
  • 'Newsweek' Stab At Lower Circ May Not Pay Off
    Newsweek's plans to reshape the magazine into a lower-circulation weekly with ...
  • 'NYT,' 'WSJ' Battle For Luxury Advertisers
    How much of a threat does The Wall Street Journal's New Yo ...
  • Broadcast News Cuts Threaten Long-Term Viability
    Staff cuts at two of the biggest broadcast-television news outfits in t ...
  • Suitors Submitting New Bids To MGM
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is asking suitors to submit new bids for the stud ...
  • Showtime, Verizon Team For Interactive TV
    Showtime Networks and Verizon have teamed to give sports fans a mo ...
  • Cablevision Rolls Out Network DVR
    Cablevision Systems Corp plans to roll out its controversial remote storage digit ...
  • Diller, Silverman Check Out FitTV
    Media moguls Barry Diller and Ben Silverman have proposed acquiring a pie ...
  • BIM Acquires TitanTV
    Broadcast Interactive Media has acquired Decisionmark Corp. (dba TitanTV Media). Founded ...
  • Internet TV Won't Always Be Free
    In the near future, TV is going to be available anywhere, b ...
  • Disney Uses Comics, Games To Capture Boys
    Disney Chief Executive Officer Robert Iger is on a spending spree ...
  • Chernin In Search Of Cable Buy
    Eight months after leaving the News Corp. executive suite, Peter Chernin h ...
  • Hearst Newspapers Farm Out Sports Reporting
    Hearst Newspapers, owner of the San Francisco Chronicle, made a deal wi ...
  • Cowell New Series To Premiere On Hulu
    'American Idol' creator Simon Fuller's first original series, "If I Can Dream ...
  • TV Deals Squeeze Residuals
    TV studios and broadcast networks are demanding new talent concessions to tr ...
  • Clear Channel Restructuring Inevitable
    A restructuring of radio broadcaster Clear Channel Communications is inevitable, though i ...
  • Fly Fisherman
    As a regular, some would say obsessed, theater-going New Yorker, I wond ...
  • Interactive, VOD Ads On Rise
    In 2010, three key areas will start to show critical momentum: interacti ...
  • Wal-Mart Buys Online Movie Service
    The idea of an Internet-ready home entertainment setup has a powerful n ...
  • Big Names Booked For 'Leno' Return
    Sarah Palin, Olympic gold-medal snowboarder Shaun White, Olympic gold-medal skier Lindsey Vo ...
  • Franken: Put All NBC, Comcast Shows Online
    Sen. Al Franken is a harsh critic of the Comcast, NBCU $30-billi ...
  • PBS Revisits 'Sherlock Holmes,' 'Upstairs'
    PBS' "Masterpiece Theater" will co-produce a remake of "Upstairs Downstairs," as we ...
  • P&G, Wal-Mart Push 'Jensen' As Time Buy
    NBC has teamed with Procter & Gamble and Wal-Mart for "The Jens ...
  • Publishers Join In Kia Digital Ad Push
    Some 45 titles representing 15 publishing companies are running ads for t ...
  • CNBC Launches Free In Britain
    Financial channel CNBC is set to launch on the subscription-free satellite platfo ...
  • Univision Readies Telenovela Site
    U.S. Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications Inc. is creating a video Web si ...
  • CBS: From Twitter To Sitcom
    CBS has OK'd a pilot based on the tweets of an ag ...
  • ZenithOptimedia Extends Newcast To U.S.
    ZenithOptimedia has launched Newcast, a division that reaches beyond traditional media ...
  • FTC Launches Future Media Inquiry
    The FCC formally launched its inquiry into the future of the med ...
  • Roper: PBS Most-Trusted News Source
    New national polls have found that the American people find PBS t ...