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YouTube Partners With TiVo
Posted by THR.com on 18 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership
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By Paul Bond, THR.com Just what the television industry needs, increased competition from those wacky YouTube videos that 68 million people watch every month. |
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TAIWAN: Al Jazeera English TV Makes Debut In Taiwan
Posted by AsiaMedia on 17 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Asia
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By Richard Hazeldine, Asia Media Al Jazeera English, the English-language service of the popular Arabic satellite news channel, made its debut yesterday in Taiwan. |
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Katharine the Second Begins Reign at Washington Post
Posted by NY Observer on 16 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership
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By John Koblin, The New York Observer Ms. Weymouth has been the New Publisher of The Washington Post for almost six months now, but her position is not identical to those of her predecessors |
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Tribune Says L.A. Times Publisher, Chicago Tribune Editor Quit
Posted by Bloomberg on 15 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, North America
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By Gillian Wee, Bloomberg Tribune Co. said Los Angeles Times Publisher David Hiller and Chicago Tribune Editor-in-Chief Ann Marie Lipinski resigned, seven months after real-estate billionaire Sam Zell completed his buyout of the company. |
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Yahoo Rebuffs Icahn And Microsoft Move
Posted by Financial Times on 14 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, North America
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By Chris Nuttall Financial Times Yahoo said it had rejected an attempt by Microsoft and Carl Icahn, the activist investor, to replace its board immediately and buy its search business, condemning the joint move as an “odd and opportunistic alliance”. |
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Israeli soldiers close West Bank TV station
Posted by Reporters Without Borders on 11 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership
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By Reporters Without Borders Israeli soldiers closed a Palestinian commercial TV station based in the West Bank city of Nablus on the grounds that it was a “terrorist” media. The station has stopped broadcasting and seals have been place over its entrance. |
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Same Old Story, Brand New Cuts
Posted by Chicago Tribune on 09 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership
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By Phil Rosenthal, Chicago Tribune It’s not as though the Chicago Tribune would rerun old stories to reduce costs, but you can be excused for feeling as though you’ve read this one before: |
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Uncertainty Aplenty As Web, Media Leaders Convene
Posted by AP on 08 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership
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By Jeremy Herron, AP When media and technology tycoons convene in southern Idaho for five days of dealmaking and outdoor recreation, the mountain air will carry more than a whiff of uncertainty as most arrive with their businesses in various states of disarray. |
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Media Moguls Gather For Summer Camp
Posted by Reuters on 07 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership
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By Dan Cox, Reuters Major media executives packed their bathing suits, BlackBerrys and iPods this weekend and headed for their version of summer camp — the annual gathering put together by financier Herb Allen in an exclusive resort. |
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Cuban Calls For An Activist FCC
Posted by Cable360.net on 03 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Policy
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By Michael Grebb, Cable360.net HDNet’s Mark Cuban tells CableFAX that consolidation has tilted the playing field and may extinguish the voices of independent programmers. |
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News Networks See Growth
Posted by Variety.com on 02 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership
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By William Triplett, Variety.com Second-quarter Nielsen numbers include something for all the cable news nets and broadcast network news divisions to crow about — except CBS. |
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Cnet buy puts CBS in top 10 Web properties
Posted by San Francisco Chronicle on 01 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, North America, US
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By Victoria Coliver, San Francisco Chronicle CBS Corp. completed its $1.8 billion purchase of San Francisco’s Cnet Networks Inc. on Monday in a deal that makes CBS one of the top 10 largest Web properties. |
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News Corp. Hunts Europe Pay TV Again
Posted by Wall Street Journal on 27 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Europe
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By Aaron O. Patrick, The Wall Street Journal The last time News Corp. spent big getting into the European pay-television market, it lost billions of dollars. Now, the media conglomerate is taking a second look. |
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Uzbekistan: Fighting internet censorship
Posted by Global Voices on 26 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Asia, Free Speech, Censorship, Agenda Cutting
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By Global Voices Despite Uzbekistan’s nominal guarantees of the freedom of speech, the media is being systematically attacked by the government. |
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Harvard’s Advice to Bloggers on AP Copyright Fiasco
Posted by MediaChannel on 25 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: North America, VIDEO, Blogs, Copyright
Associated Press wants to force bloggers and citizen journalists to pay to quote parts of their articles. The blogosphere is fighting back. We speak to the Harvard Citizen Media Project to find out what bloggers should do to protect themselves legally.
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