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The sides appear to be at least $500 million apart on how to value NBC Universal, which G.E. is hoping to sell to Comcast, the big cable television company.
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Analysts and executives are wondering if the economic model of broadcast television, which is more heavily reliant on advertising than cable, is irreparably broken.
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The Guardian:
The British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates appeared in television footage tonight showing them surrounded by gunman and pleading for help to free them before they are killed.Looking nervous and subdued, Paul and Rachel Chandler said their captors were "losing patience" and feared they could die within a week.The couple (Read More)
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The newly appointed Channel 4 chairman, Lord Burns, is making the search for a chief executive his number one priorityThe newly appointed Channel 4 chairman, Lord Burns, is understood to be keen to appoint a chief executive with strong public-service broadcasting credentials.Burns officially takes over from Luke Johnson on (Read More)
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The Guardian:
Stephen Timms claims piracy powers necessary to 'future-proof' government proposals to safeguard the UK's creative industriesRead the government's statement on the billRead the digital economy billStephen Timms, the Treasury secretary, has defended the government's controversial plans to give ministers sweeping powers to co (Read More)
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The Guardian:
James Murdoch's speech to investors in Barcelona yesterday revealed the direction that News Corporation plans to take in the coming years. His key quote:In the business of ideas, which is the business that we are in, we do think journalism plays a role, and we do think there are business models there that will make a lot of (Read More)
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Two lawyers say discussion of rights and religious freedom was suppressed during US president's 'disappointing' visitTwo Chinese rights activists said today that they were briefly detained by police after seeking a meeting with Barack Obama in Beijing. They added that the US influence over China on human rights had declined (Read More)
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www.guardian.co.uk:
Oprah Winfrey's talkshow is scheduled to finish in 2011. But the legacy may last slightly longerShe is a cultural phenomenon. But today Oprah Winfrey will announce that she is to bring her television show to an end in 2011, 25 years after its first national broadcast. We have much to thank (perhaps) Winfrey for: her show le (Read More)
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Reuters:
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Network18 Media & Investments Ltd said on Friday group firm, Television Eighteen India Ltd will merge broadcast operations of two of its channels that will save 650 million rupees annually.
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Orphans of Burma's Cyclone and Saving Africa's Witch Children honoured at awards for freelance cameramenTwo films shown on Channel 4's Dispatches won recognition at the Rory Peck awards last night.Orphans of Burma's Cyclone, made by two anonymous journalists who risked 30-year jail terms to film the lives of children left w (Read More)
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Major overhaul at news channel includes appointment of BBC's Salah Negm as director of newsAl-Jazeera's English-language news channel has embarked on an overhaul of operations including an executive shakeup.Tony Burman, the al-Jazeera English managing director, has written to staff outlining an initiative called AJE: The Ne (Read More)
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The Guardian:
It's a bumper edition of Media Talk this week, as Matt Wells and guests Jane Martinson and Paul Robinson analyse a busy seen days across the industry.We begin with broadcasting, where – after months of dilly-dallying – ITV has finally named its new chairman. We look at the job awaiting Archie Norman. Also in the podcast, w (Read More)
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www.guardian.co.uk:
Ratings powerhouse to close in 2011, allowing Oprah to concentrate on her own cable channelAfter more than 20 years in which Oprah Winfrey shook up the medium of the daytime talkshow, rising to become a ratings and cultural powerhouse, she is to announce today that she is bringing her show to an end.Yesterday she told her 6 (Read More)
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The Guardian:
David Cesarani (A frisson of conspiracy, 18 November), is absolutely right that our investigation for Channel 4, Inside Britain's Israel Lobby, was followed by a deluge of pretty horrible antisemitic comment on a range of websites. Nasty, but predictable. In fact, exactly the same reaction we got in response to our previous (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Viewers are not interested in what our presenters earn, says corporationThe BBC will reject calls to publish the individual salaries of top stars, citing private polling that shows licence-fee payers do not regard it as a priority.Managers at the corporation are determined to resist pressure from the Conservatives to reveal (Read More)
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