Media
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CBS Q4 Profits Soar on Streaming Deals (Updated)
CBS CEO Les Moonves touts network’s ratings, takes a jab at “American Idol” numbers
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ESPN Cuts Ron Jaworski from its ‘Monday Night Football’ Team
Ron Jaworski exits booth of ESPN’s ratings juggernaut “Monday Night Football,” leaving Mike Tirico and Jon Gruden as next year’s co-hosts
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President Obama to Arrive in L.A. This Afternoon
Will Ferrell, well-known for his George W. Bush impersonation, will host President Obama at the home of soap opera producer Bradley Bell; The Foo Fighters will perform
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Fishbowl Media, Revision 3 Partner for YouTube Series ‘CuteWinFail’
San Francisco-based Internet TV network Revision3 will distribute “CuteWinFail,” the first digital series from Fishbowl, the company behind “America’s Funniest Home Videos”
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Louis C.K. Inspires Jim Gaffigan to Distribute His Own Special, Too
“Jim Gaffigan: Mr. Universe” will be available via a $5 download, with a portion of each sale going to The Bob Woodruff Foundation
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News Corp. Appoints New Murdoch Lieutenant, Hamish McLennan
Former advertising executive Hamish McLennan will oversee News Corp.’s brand partnerships, reporting to Rupert Murdoch and Chase Carey
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Bleacher Reports Launches YouTube Series on NFL Draft, Recruiting
Sports web publisher Bleacher Report pushes further into online video, following the likes of Reuters and WSJ
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Comcast Beats Q4 Expectations, Significantly Cuts Cable Customer Losses
Company increases dividend, announces repurchase plan
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Jeff Zucker a Candidate to Run Yahoo?
Could the ex-NBCU chief executive Zucker end up running Yahoo? It’s not out of the question
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Warren Buffett Buys Stake in Liberty Media, DirecTV
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway buys into media companies, raising its stake in DirecTV to $1 billion
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Yahoo Shareholder Blasts Current Board, Nominates Jeff Zucker
Dan Loeb, who owns almost 6 percent of Yahoo, nominates former NBC chief Jeff Zucker and Michael Wolf to its board
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How Current TV’s Cenk Uygur and ‘The Young Turks’ Can Surpass ‘Titanic’
The Current TV host celebrates the tenth anniversary of “The Young Turks” with yellow cake and a documentary
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Tim Cook Hits Back at Factory Abuse Reports: ‘Apple Cares About Its Workers’
CEO Tim Cook calls underage labor ‘rare’ but ‘abhorrent,’ and says no one in tech field is doing more than Apple to improve working conditions
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Netflix’s ‘Lilyhammer’ and Hulu’s ‘Battleground’ Rely Too Heavily on Tried and True
Review: The two web services are taking on traditional television, but HBO and Showtime have little to fear in “Battleground” and “Lilyhammer”
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‘Inside Apple’: Why ‘Everyone Inside Wants Out’
Author Adam Lanshinsky pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of his company where “fear is palpable”