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Starz goes from second-tier movie channel to Hollywood power broker
In the battle over home video distribution, the Hollywood studios may finally be realizing they have to give up some control, or risk losing millions. Earlier this month, Disney (DIS) announced that...
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Clash of the titans: the cable wars, continued
News Corp. vs Cablevision. Cablevision vs. Disney. The list goes on and on. An updated tally of cable licensing deals gone horribly awry. As the Cablevision and News Corp. feud continues, more than...
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YouTube wins Viacom case, we lose entertainment
I'll be sad to no longer see those embarrassing documents coming out of the court proceedings. Here's a recap. "YouTube wins its case against Viacom" or "The Court Ruling" either way, it was a...
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Battle for the future of TV
It's Amazon vs. Apple, according to the latest reports, with Netflix in the middle Tuesday was busy day as two of the biggest names in online retail -- Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN) -- jockeyed for...
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The best rhetoric in business: cable vs content
When the cable providers and the companies providing the shows fight over fees -- as Cablevision and News Corp currently are -- the viewers lose. But those who enjoy their business bare knuckled...
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Comedy Central, not you too?! Viacom pulls episodes from GoogleTV
OK, that one really hurt. I'd say about half of my TV watching is the Daily Show and the Colbert Report on Comedy Central (I've also been known to enjoy the occasional South Park). Until this weekend,...
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Google sends YouTube copyright violators to school
Drivers Ed for Copyright violations. In a move to thwart copyright violations on its YouTube Subsidiary, Google (GOOG) has instituted a new Copyright Violations Schooling program along with new...
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Can Twitter become a multimedia powerhouse?
The social network might launch a music service this weekend and seek TV content deals with Viacom and others. What's the endgame? FORTUNE -- Can a social network once entirely conceived around...
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YouTube runs a reform school for copyright violations
And it's a little like traffic school for the Internet. By David A. Kaplan FORTUNE -- Bruce Carlisle is a 55-year-old entrepreneur in the Bay Area. He's the founder of Conference Hound, a search...
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Opt-out class-actions attack YouTube’s opt-out business model. Any irony there?
The filing of a second class-action copyright suit against YouTube and its parent Google (GOOG) on May 10, this one listing mandolin player David Grisman as its name plaintiff, provides an occasion to...
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Viacom vs. Google: the preview
When Viacom filed its billion-dollar suit against Google over the media company’s content that finds its way onto YouTube, most folks assumed it was just another step in a business negotiation. It...
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The legal distinction between the F-word and the S-word
In an important ruling yesterday, which you may have already seen reported in either the New York Times (here) or the Wall Street Journal (here), the federal appeals court in New York rebuffed and...
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Google worried? Doubt it.
I saw something more than a little scary last week at Google (GOOG): A calm, confident, friendly management team that seemed more comfortable in its own skin than I’ve ever seen them. For the first...
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Is television dead?
FORTUNE - A decade ago, in the year before Google went public in 2003, then-Viacom VIA CEO Mel Karmazin, a legendary (if not Don Draper-like) ad salesmen, visited Goole's corporate headquarters, the...
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Fox is this summer’s big box-office winner, sort of
With just one more long weekend left before the unofficial end of summer, it looks like Rupert Murdoch and Fox will soon be lifting the championship belt as winners of this year's summer box-office....
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‘Ninja Turtles,’ ‘Transformers’ boost Viacom’s revenue
Media giant Viacom VIAB reported a better-than-expected 9% jump in third-quarter revenue, as results were boosted by a huge leap in revenue derived from two hits at the box office. Here’s what you need...
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Google, Viacom win dismissal of children’s web privacy lawsuit
(Reuters) – Google Inc GOOG and Viacom Inc won the dismissal of a nationwide privacy lawsuit accusing them of illegally tracking the Internet activity of boys and girls who visited Nickelodeon’s...
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Jon Stewart is leaving ‘The Daily Show’
This post is in partnership with Time. The article below was originally published at Time.com By Tessa Berenson and Dan Hirshhorn, TIME Jon Stewart, the comedian-turned-faux newsman who transformed The...
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Jon Stewart just punched a $350 million hole in Viacom’s value
First Stephen Colbert, now Jon Stewart. Shares of Viacom VIAB , the media conglomerate that owns cable network Comedy Central, dipped on Wednesday following news that the company is preparing for the...
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Nickelodeon unveils paid streaming service for kids
(REUTERS) — Viacom’s VIA Nickelodeon unveiled on Wednesday a paid streaming service for children called Noggin that will launch on March 5 for $5.99 a month. The mobile subscription service will be...
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