The new Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) CEO Les Hinton gave his first public interview to The Australian, and though no revelatory points, some reiteration of current policies, and a hint…

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-- Showtime’s The Tudors to premiere across video sites: As Showtime’s historical drama series The Tudors gets ready to kick off its second season on Sunday, the CBS (NYSE: CBS)…

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An interesting turn of events on the OpenSocial scene, with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) agreeing to embrace the Google-backed social app distribution platform. Yahoo, Google and MySpace have agreed to form…

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Flipped over to MSNBC for a quick morning politics fix and caught Mort Zuckerman, owner of the New York Daily News (among other holdings), talking about rumors of his interest…

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When we first reported Feb. 15 on News Corp’s (NYSE: NWS) plans for a MySpace music JV with the major labels a la Hulu, none of the labels were on…

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PageSix.com, the entertainment gossip site that gained independence from its original home as part of the NYP.com in December, has been shuttered, Gawker reported. A rep for the News Corp.-owned…

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Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) and the Associated Press are ending a longstanding distribution and resource-sharing agreement. Instead, Dow Jones Newswires will distribute stories from Agence France-Presse. DJ has been sharing…

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-- GM to move $1.5 Billion ad budget to digital: General Motors, the number three U.S. ad spender will shift $1.5 billion - half of its $3 billion ad budget…

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In a keynote conversation on the fracturing content landscape and how to make money from it, Velocity Interactive Group’s general partner Ross Levinsohn and founding partner Jon Miller pointed to…

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As expected, hulu.com is live and open to all with no log in, a bolder video look, more nimble and deeper navigation, and deeper programming, especially in movies. A few…

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Hulu CEO Jason Kilar and I spoke Tuesday as he was heading into the home stretch towards the launch of portal hulu.com, with months of intense effort behind him and…

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I started to write a post about hulu.com‘s upcoming launch over the weekend, then a visit turned into two episodes of House. It’s that easy. Even when it crashed while…

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Talk about being dumb on the smallest of things: Fox Business Network has lost its battle for the domain name www.foxbusinessnetwork.com, because it did not register its trade marks early…

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Martha Stewart, Rupert Murdoch and the Kindle from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN). If you told me this morning I’d have been able to fit these three into the same post, I’d…

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Listening in to the Rupert Murdoch webcast from the Bear Stearns Media Conference going on this week in Florida ... Yahoo-MSFT: Behind the scenes, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and Yahoo…

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Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), now officially part of News Corp. has made its first acquisition after the deal: it has bought Dutch company Betten Financial News, in an effort to…

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When it comes to behavioral targeting, the prevailing ethos among marketers and ad agencies is “what consumers don’t know, won’t bother them.” As a long NYT piece on the subject…

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We reported on this first in October, Facebook has been setting up meetings with music industry executives as the social net tries to find the best way to set up…

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An intriguing move by China Central Television ... the Wall Street Journal reports that the state-run broadcaster is tying up with MySpace China and online-video site Tudou.com for an interactive…

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Finally, after years of wrangling over a deal and more than a year after the $11 billion-or-so deal was struck, John Malone and Rupert Murdoch have erased the ties that…

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As tipped last week, the FCC has approved the dragged out Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) and News Corp (NYSE: NWS). DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) swap agreement, subject to certain conditions. Liberty…

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More than a year after it was first announced, the FCC is set approve a deal between Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) and News Corp that has the former relinquishing its…

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-- National Geographic Global Media: NGGM has announced Maps.com veteran Charles Regan as its new VP-digital mapping business. Regan will report to SVP Paul Levine and be responsible for maintaining…

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paidContent has learned that News Corp (NYSE: NWS). is pursuing a music joint venture for MySpace—similar to Hulu, its video joint venture with NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), but with variations…

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-- Dow Jones: As tipped last month, the SEC has settled an insider trading complaint against ex-Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) director David Li and certain affiliated parties. Li was alleged…

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