Mediagazer: News Corp. buys out ESPN Star Sports venture (New York Business Journal)

7:00 AM ET, November 9, 2012

Top News:

Daily News's 4 New York Plaza Offices Could Be Uninhabitable For a Year — It could be up to a year before the New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report are allowed back into their 4 New York Plaza headquarters, which were “wiped out” by Hurricane Sandy, Mortimer B. Zuckerman said today.

Discussion: New York Magazine

New York Business Journal:

News Corp. buys out ESPN Star Sports venture — News Corp. has completed the purchase of ESPN Star Sports, a 50-50- venture it had with ESPN Inc. — Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed. — The companies on June 6 announced their agreement on the acquisition, made through a News Corp. subsidiary.

Discussion: MediaNama

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Rove's On-Air Rebuttal of Fox's Ohio Vote Call Raises Questions About His Role — It was 11:13 p.m. on Tuesday, the moment that Fox News had called Ohio for President Obama. Karl Rove stood just off camera, his phone glued to his ear. On the other end was a senior Romney campaign official …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, TVNewser, Mother Jones, Mediaite, Poynter, Media Decoder, Business Insider, msnbc.com, @jayrosen_nyu and The Atlantic Online

Random Pixels:
The hypocrisy of Fox News

Discussion: LA Observed and Mediaite

Mark Cuban / The Huffington Post:
Fox News Should Watch Dancing With the Stars

Discussion: Mediaite

Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:

Netflix and the threat to digital media businesses from hostile investors — This is adapted from our Finance and Deals Newsletter, sent every Friday at 7am to subscribers. We have newsletters for all media sectors and they're all free - sign up at www.themediabriefing.com/newsletters.

Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:

Why Silicon Valley and Hollywood Don't Get Each Other and Who Will Win the Future — For the past three years I have been pounding the table as loud as I can about the future opportunities in digital video. The concise guide is here. — My narrative has stayed pretty simple:

Politico:

The new ‘no comment’: F— off — The reporter's e-mail was insistent, his questions obviously skeptical. The State Department official's response was defensive, his mood obviously annoyed. — Then the missiles started flying. — “Why do you bother to ask questions you already know the answer to …

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Peter Chernin Rounds Up Another $100 Million, This Time From Qatar — Peter Chernin, the longtime News Corp. executive who is now running his own media and technology fund, has landed another slug of investment money, this time from Qatar's sovereign wealth fund.

Discussion: The Wrap, Deal Journal, Digital Media Wire and Media Decoder

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:

Jury says journalist arrested while videotaping police is not guilty — Miami man plans to sue department over unauthorized deletion of his footage. — A jury acquitted a Florida photojournalist who was arrested on January 31 while documenting the eviction of Occupy Miami protesters.

Discussion: PINAC, @carlosmiller, @jcstearns and Riptide 2.0

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of the newspaper industry as the Republican Party — The pictures told much of the story. As the networks beamed in live coverage of Barack Obama's and Mitt Romney's gatherings on election nights, their anchors made similar observations — some gingerly, some more prominently.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, scpr.org, Poynter and Slate

Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:

What's Going to Kill the TV Business? — Two things: The rising cost of making television and enough cord-cutters abandoning the cable bundle to blow up the business model. The first trend is happening. The second one isn't. — Reuters — The first thing to ask when somebody predicts …

Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:

The Right's Jennifer Rubin Problem: An Information Disadvantage Case Study — Conservatives lobbied hard to install one of their own at the Washington Post. But it didn't work out as they imagined it would. — Anyone hoping to fully understand the self-imposed information disadvantage …

Leslie Kaufman / Media Decoder:

In Deal With Wiley, Houghton Acquires Cookbooks and CliffsNotes — Betty Crocker is moving. — Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said on Thursday that it had acquired the culinary portfolio of John Wiley & Sons as well as its reference books, including the classic Webster's New World Dictionary and CliffsNotes.

Discussion: PublishersWeekly.com, Melville House Books and GalleyCat

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

Web radio growing faster than on-demand services (study) — Webcasters, such as Pandora, saw following increase by 27 percent while on-demand players, such as Spotify and Rhapsody grew by 18 percent. — Music listening patterns continue to evolve and not just from analog to digital …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Jenny Che / NY Daily News:

Sales of Nate Silver's book shoot up post-election — Nate Silver is going for the gold. — In the 24 hours following the election, sales of Silver's “The Signal and the Noise,” published in September, jumped 850% on Amazon, according to CNNMoney. It currently stands as the second best selling book …

Discussion: Slate