Mediagazer: Why Pandora bought an FM radio station (Christopher Harrison/The Hill)

2:00 AM ET, June 12, 2013

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Christopher Harrison / The Hill:

Why Pandora bought an FM radio station — The internet isn't just the future of radio; it is radio. Today, 70+ million Americans listen to Pandora, accounting for more than 7 percent of all U.S. radio listening. Our Music Genome Project, the most comprehensive music analysis ever undertaken …

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Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
Pandora Buys Terrestrial Radio Station in South Dakota, Aims for Lower ASCAP Royalties

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News Corp. Investors Approve Breakup Plan — After years of being criticized by investors for his love of newspapers, News Corp. (NWS) Chairman Rupert Murdoch is now a step closer to cleaving off the declining publishing business. — Shareholders voted to approve the breakup plan …

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News Corp. says no settlement with U.S. Department of Justice — News Corp. said Tuesday that it had not reached a settlement with U.S. officials over a corruption probe. Members of the media surround former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, center, as she gets into a car …

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Obama Schmoozes Reporters At Secret Meeting — The president popped into an off-the-record briefing with reporters Monday. — Image by Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP — WASHINGTON — President Obama held an off-the-record meeting with select reporters from some of the nation's largest print …

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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

The Best (And Worst) Cities for Newspapers — Pittsburgh Tops Highest Readership; Atlanta Takes Honor for Lowest — The percentage of daily print newspaper readers in the U.S. has fallen nearly 20% since 2001, according to research firm Scarborough. But that drop has not been spread evenly …

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‘TV Everywhere’ mobile initiative still hasn't gotten there, executives admit — Comcast Corp. CEO Brian Roberts gestured as he spoke during The Cable Show 2013 convention in Washington on Tuesday. — WASHINGTON — TV was supposed to be everywhere by now — watchable anytime, anywhere, on your smartphone or tablet.

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Greece Shutting Down State Broadcaster Net — In a surprise move that angered labor unions and its junior partners, the conservative-led coalition government said the station, Net, would stop broadcasting at midnight Tuesday.

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‘PBS NewsHour’ Plans Layoffs as It Closes Offices — WASHINGTON — The “PBS NewsHour,” the signature nightly newscast on public television, is planning its first significant round of layoffs in nearly two decades. — Facing a multimillion-dollar shortfall in the program's budget …

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Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

The Wire launches digital archive of all 350 issues — All 250,000 pages of the underground music magazine's history are available to subscribers through the publication's app — Copyright: By ValleeC on Flickr. Some rights reserved. — Underground music magazine The Wire has made its entire …

Bloomberg:

Dish-Sprint Talks Said to Falter in Part Over Breakup Fee — Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) demanded a $3 billion reverse breakup fee from Dish Network Corp. (DISH) during their merger talks, one of a series of disagreements that has kept them from reaching a deal, people familiar with the matter said.

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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Sprint Ends Talks About Sale to Dish Network, Supports Softbank Bid

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Mexican Billionaires Slim And Azcarraga Not Concerned With Impact Of New Anti-Monopoly Telecom Law — This week Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto signed into law a landmark telecommunications bill designed to boost competition in Mexico's phone and television industry.

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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

Gawker Media is Relaunching Defamer — Gawker Media is relaunching Defamer, the Hollywood gossip site that was folded into Gawker proper back in early 2009. The website will temporarily be run by former Gawker editor in chief AJ Daulerio, he announced in a post this afternoon.

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How Newspapers Can Make Augmented Reality Sexy (and Profitable) — Want to stay current on media and technology from around the web? Get MediaShift's Daily Must Reads in your in-box! — Publishers in the United States have been slow to embrace augmented reality (AR) …

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Exclusive: Al Jazeera America to Launch Week of Aug. 24

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Ex-BBC chief recalled to face Commons questions over earlier DMI evidence — Mark Thompson told public accounts committee in 2011 that parts of content management system were ‘already working’ — Mark Thompson, the former BBC director general, has been recalled to parliament over evidence …

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