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Faced with mounting losses, the Star-Ledger in Newark — New Jersey’s largest daily paper — is threatening to shut down at the end of the year unless it wins major concessions from its production unions.
Publisher Richard Vezza gave the unions until Sept. 27 to come up with $9 million in…
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Time Warner Cable and other pay-TV operators are offering incentives to media companies that agree to withhold content from Web-based entertainment services such as those pursued by Intel and Apple, people with knowledge of the matter said. The incentives can take the form of higher payments, or they can include…
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For the first time, a cable show is the top-rated scripted series on television — and we have zombies to thank. AMC’s “The Walking Dead†was not only the highest-rated scripted show among adults ages 18-49 of the 2012-13 season, but the second-highest rated show overall, behind NBC’s “Sunday…
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This could be the hottest Hollywood story of the summer.
A firestorm erupted between two Tinseltown tattlers when The Wrap reported that Nikki Finke, the star blogger for Deadline Hollywood, its arch-rival, had been fired.
The “shocker,†written by The Wrap’s Sharon Waxman, said Finke’s firing followed a…
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Incoming NBC News boss Deborah Turness better be a quick learner — her to-do list is already overflowing.
While dealing with a recently cooled MSNBC and a faltering “Meet the Press†is enough to keep the first woman to head the Peacock network’s news division busy, the hugely underperforming “Today…
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It looks like it’s game, set and tournament for ESPN.The cable sports giant is said to be near a deal to steal away the US Open tennis championships from CBS — where it has aired in one form or another since 1968.ESPN is ready to pay about $60…
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While several new names have surfaced as potential candidates to head Time Inc. after the spinoff, none is as intriguing as David Pecker, the long-time CEO of American Media Inc.
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes has already met with Pecker, several sources told Media Ink.
For all the controversy he…
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk just played a bad joke on short sellers.
Shares of the electric-car company hit an all-time high on April Fool’s Day after Musk said — yet again — that Tesla was on track to report its first-ever profitable quarter.
The stock surged as much as 23 percent…
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An eerie calm seemed to be settling over Time Inc. yesterday, the first full day when its future as a company untethered from the Time Warner mother ship could be contemplated.
“I’m energized,†said Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Martha Nelson, who was one of the top execs in the meeting…
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Ahh, that hits the spot.
For the first time in four years, US beer sales are on the rise.
While the uptick last year was modest — about 1.4 percent, according to preliminary numbers tabulated by Beverage Marketing — brewers will take it after the Great Recession of 2008 siphoned off…
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