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| 05.16.2008 |
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Icahn Pesters Yahoo Board
News Briefing for Friday, May 16, 2008 The Rays, Diamondbacks, Astros, Marlins and Cubs have the best records in baseball on May 16. Who’d a thunk it? Good day. Billionaire investor and corporate pest Carl Icahn filed papers to unseat Yahoo’s...
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| 05.12.2008 |
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Dolans Get Newsday
News Briefing for Monday, May 12, 2008 Topic of the morning in the Cable360 newsroom: should Baseball’s Mother’s Day celebration include more than pink bats and wristbands? Good day. Happy broadcast upfronts week! Not really. Owing to the writers...
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| 05.09.2008 |
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Microsoft Charts Next Move
News Briefing for Friday, May 9, 2008 Consecutive late nights have the Cable360 newsroom patently ignoring the company’s no slouching rule. Good day. Based on recent movements with potential proxy board members, Microsoft isn’t about to make a...
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| 05.06.2008 |
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The Dolans and Newsday: Explaining The Unexplainable
News Briefing for Tuesday, May 6, 2008 Microsoft has crafted an agreement with MTV Networks, NBCU and others to sell downloads of TV shows to users of its Zune portable devices, The Wall St Journal says. But will that and allowing Zune users to share their...
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| 05.04.2008 |
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Weekend Update: Yahoo Too Rich For Microsoft's Blood
WEEKEND UPDATE FOR MAY 3, 2008 As we noted Thursday, The Wall St Journal said Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer just might walk away from the Yahoo deal. [WSJ] Today he did. After a Saturday morning meeting with Yahoo in which he raised...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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Steady Q1 For Comcast
NEWS BRIEFING FOR THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2008 Down by 5 with 2 minutes to go and they win; that’s why they’re called Wizards. Good day. Investors should avoid screaming May Day, May Day after reading Comcast’s Q1 earnings report, an analyst...
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| 04.18.2008 |
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Discovery's Fish Story?
NEWS BRIEFING FOR FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2008 For the first time in 20 years Washington’s Wizards and Capitals are in the playoffs, and both are playing on television tomorrow afternoon. Decisions, decisions. Good day. You mean reality TV isn’t all...
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| 04.11.2008 |
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Microsoft Minus Murdoch
NEWS BRIEFING FOR FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2008 A museum dedicated to news. Who'd a thunk it? Good day. All seems right with the world. The Microsoft-Yahoo deal looks like it’s a go, sans Rupert Murdoch, says The Wall St Journal, which is owned by Rupert...
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| 04.05.2008 |
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Weekend Update: Deal or No Deal
NEWS UPDATE FOR WEEKEND OF APRIL 5-6, 2008 Must Read Deal or no deal? That’s what Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer told Yahoo’s board Saturday, promising that if Yahoo didn’t act within 21 days on Microsoft’s acquisition offer the...
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| 03.28.2008 |
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British Invasion of The Web
NEWS BRIEFING FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2008 Members of the 360 newsroom are gleefully hording peanuts and Cracker Jack. Good morning. The British are coming! The British are coming! At least the BBC is, The Wall St Journal says as it reports on feisty chief exec...
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| 03.25.2008 |
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Google Sees Future in White Spaces
News briefing for Tuesday, March 25, 2008 The Cable360 newsroom has stocked up on peanut butter, Jiffy Pop and V8 for the coming economic difficulties. Good morning. Google wrote a letter to the Federal Communications Commission outlining ways in which unused...
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| 03.24.2008 |
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FiOS Heads Uptown
NEWS BRIEFING FOR MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2008 The Cable 360 staff is reveling in how wonderful a time we live in—the White House Easter Egg hunt was streamed live today. Good day. TODAY'S MUST READ Verizon FiOS said today that it will be connecting the...
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| 03.21.2008 |
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Diller-Malone Showdown Near End?
NEWS BRIEFING FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2008 Question of the day in the Cable 360 newsroom: Who or what is Belmont? Good day. Barry Diller’s and Dr John Malone’s variation on March Madness could be finished early next week or it could move to...
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| 03.20.2008 |
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Verizon's Local Show
NEWS BRIEFING FOR THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2008 It’s the first day of spring and the Cable 360 news staff is preparing for wind gusts of 50 miles per hour today. Good day. Showing that two can play the local game, Verizon FiOS is making a foray into local...
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| 03.19.2008 |
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FiOS Fakery
NEWS BRIEFING FOR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2008 Members of the Cable360 newsroom are debating: is God a Republican or a Democrat? Good day. Sneaky or downright duplicitous? Credit card companies often restrict consumers from viewing agreements until after...
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| 03.18.2008 |
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Straussed Out at HBO
NEWS BRIEFING FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 2008 Wouldn’t it make things easier if when chickens laid their eggs they were already decorated for Easter? Good morning. It looked like an isolated move—ousting veteran HBO Entertainment President Carolyn...
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| 03.17.2008 |
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HBO's Strauss Waltzes
NEWS BRIEFING FOR ST PATRICK'S DAY, MARCH 17, 2008 Bear Stearns crowds out Spitzer. Who’d have thunk it? Happy St Patrick’s Day. Guess all those reports about HBO being in a post-The Sopranos programming funk were correct. HBO Entertainment...
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| 03.14.2008 |
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Divorce Court: Diller and Malone
NEWS BRIEFING FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 2008 On June 13, the Macon Music, a minor league baseball team, will host Eliot Spitzer night, The Macon Telegraph reports. Spitzer has been invited to throw out the first pitch. The team will give away a trip to NY...
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| 03.13.2008 |
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DirecTV On Demand
NEWS BRIEFING FOR THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 2008 Are members of the Cable 360 newsroom the only ones worried about flying to The Cable Show on Southwest Airlines? Good day. DirecTV is about to address its vulnerability on VOD, The Wall Street Journal says. The DBS...
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| 03.12.2008 |
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Time Warner Cable's Spinning
NEWS BRIEFING FOR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2008 Jack LaLanne says he “hates” working out, but at 93 he does so every day, for 90 minutes. Good day. The more things change…Time Warner chief Jeff Bewkes reiterated that Time Warner Cable will be...
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