Mediagazer: Aereo to enter Dallas, other markets as CBS blackout continues (Reuters)

3:25 PM ET, August 8, 2013

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Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Times Co. Chairman Declares Paper Not for Sale — After a week in which both the Boston Globe and The Washington Post were purchased by new owners, the publisher of The New York Times Company emphatically declared Wednesday night that his company was not for sale.

Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:

What would it look like if the Times had to find a Bezos, too? — It was a natural question to ask after news broke that The Washington Post is to be sold for $250 million to Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos: Could it happen here? — By here, I mean New York City, and by it …

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Sara Morrison / The Wrap: The NY Times Isn't Selling - 6 Newspapers That Should

Liana B. Baker / Reuters:

CBS, Time Warner Cable trade barbs on Day 7 of blackout — Aug 8 (Reuters) - A CBS Corp executive said on Thursday that negotiations with Time Warner Cable Inc have “gone badly off course” and accused the cable company of trying to negotiate terms that would limit CBS's ability to do business …

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New York Business Journal:
‘I want my CBS,’ TV pirates say, and they aren't waiting for Time Warner to listen

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Jim Romenesko:

[UPDATED] Patch is laying off hundreds of employees on Friday — UPDATE — A Patch tipster reports: “Patch employees will learn their fate starting tomorrow at 9 a.m. on an all company call with Tim Armstrong. Managers were told last night not to discuss the layoffs with subordinates or reference them at all.”

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Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

YouTube Founders Introduce MixBit To Crack The Code Of Video Editing On Mobile — From the two co-founders behind YouTube, MixBit is a brand new mobile-first video platform. But contrarily to other video apps focused on recreating a social network, MixBit is all about editing and putting …

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Corey Pein:

We Already Know What Kind of Newspaper Owner Jeff Bezos Will Be — Remember when Amazon pulled the plug on Wikileaks? — There's already a great flood of commentary wondering whether Jeff Bezos, the new owner of the Washington Post, will be a good king or a bad king. — The tech crowd is predictably enthusiastic.

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Dear Jeff Bezos, Here's What I Saw as an Analog Nobody in the Mailroom of the Washington Post

John Koblin / Deadspin:

What Is Nate Silver's New ESPN Site Going To Look Like? — Nate Silver's ESPN-owned 538 site is not going to be The Nate Silver Show + a few contributors. Silver's plan is to make it a Grantland II, of sorts. “I'm actually out here kind of meeting with you and [Grantland publisher] …

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Reuters:

Aereo to enter Dallas, other markets as CBS blackout continues — (Reuters) - Internet TV startup Aereo will soon be available in Dallas, one of the cities affected by the Time Warner Cable-CBS blackout, which extended into its seventh day on Thursday. — Aereo said on Thursday …

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Tom McCarthy / Guardian:

NBC News vexed over NBC entertainment's Hillary Clinton project — NBC political director Chuck Todd went on in-house news channel MSNBC to complain vocally about Clinton project — Call it a case of the mega-corporate blues: NBC's news division is mad at NBC's entertainment division …

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Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:

Rdio expands its Internet radio stations to take on Pandora — Screenshot of Rdio Inc.'s new Internet radio platform. (Rdio Inc.) — Rdio Inc., a San Francisco-based streaming music company, has revamped its Internet radio service with new types of stations and additional features …

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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Rakuten Launches iPad And Android Apps For Its Wuaki.tv Streaming Service In Europe — Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten has launched tablets apps on iOS and Android to support the launch of its Wuaki video streaming service in the U.K. and Spain. The apps allow users of the service to purchase …

Discussion: The Next Web

Human Rights Watch:

Russia: Silencing Activists, Journalists ahead of Sochi Games — Six Months Before Olympics Launch, Fresh Concerns about Intimidation — (Moscow) - Local authorities have harassed numerous activists and journalists who criticized or expressed concerns about preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.

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