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Sony Reaches Preliminary Programming Deal With Viacom for Online Pay TV Service — By - AMOL SHARMA And - SHALINI RAMACHANDRAN - — Sony Corp. has reached a preliminary agreement with Viacom Inc. to carry the media company's cable channels on its planned Internet-based TV service …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Viacom-Sony TV Is a Big Deal. It's Also the Same Deal We Already Have. — Viacom's deal to deliver its cable TV shows to a new Web video service from Sony isn't final. — But it is a big deal: As the Wall Street Journal first reported today, this is the first time a major programmer has agreed …
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Sony and Viacom Reach Tentative Internet TV Deal
Sony and Viacom Reach Tentative Internet TV Deal
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Bryan Goldberg / PandoDaily:
Take Two — I messed up. — There has been a lot of response to my fundraise blog post on PandoDaily on Tuesday. Most of that response has been negative. And there are many good reasons for the criticism: — It over-simplified the editorial landscape.
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
What Was This Bro Thinking? Bustle.com's Bryan Goldberg Explains Himself — Considering he only wanted to launch a women's-interest website, Bryan Goldberg must have been surprised to find himself the internet's primary object of hatred yesterday. — No doubt it had a lot …
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Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire:
Syrian Hackers Use Outbrain to Target The Washington Post, Time, and CNN — For a brief period on Thursday morning, the Washington Post's website redirected some visitors to a webpage controlled by the Syrian Electronic Army. In a brief statement, the site didn't indicate how the infiltration occurred …
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Washington Post website hacked — Readers were “redirected to the site of the Syrian Electronic Army,” Senior Social Media Producer TJ Ortenzi writes in an editor's note. “The Post is working to resolve the issue.” — The New York Times' website was down Wednesday …
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Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
Al Jazeera America Debut Approaches, With Fewer Commercials — Cable News Network Will Have Just Six Minutes of Ad Time per Hour — Al Jazeera America will have fewer commercials than other cable TV networks when it begins transmitting on Tuesday. — The cable news network will air …
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Al Jazeera America faces more than the usual new-kid challenges
Al Jazeera America faces more than the usual new-kid challenges
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Fox Sports 1 will launch with DirecTV, Dish and Time Warner Cable — Regis Philbin will host a show on Fox Sports 1. — Fox Sports 1 has struck agreements with three major distributors that will ensure that the new cable network will be available in the majority of pay-TV homes …
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John Ourand / SportsBusiness Daily:
Sources: Distributors Hold The Line On Fox Sports 1 Sub Fee — The frenzied rush that saw several of the country's biggest distributors agree to carry FS1 at launch occurred only after Fox surprisingly backed off its asking price of $0.80 per subscriber per month, according to multiple high-level sources.
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Don Kaplan / NY Daily News:
Verizon FiOS gains customers as standoff continues between Time Warner Cable and CBS — Some Time Warner Cable customers say they've been left on hold when trying to cancel service — Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning (l.) his brother and New York Giants counterpart, Eli Manning …
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Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
Blackout brawler: meet the combative CEO keeping CBS off your television
Blackout brawler: meet the combative CEO keeping CBS off your television
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Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
Time Warner Cable Slapped With Class Action Suit Over CBS Blackout
Time Warner Cable Slapped With Class Action Suit Over CBS Blackout
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Aaron Smith / CNNMoney.com:
Buffett's Berkshire dumps Gannett, buys Dish Network — Warren Buffett's investment firm Berkshire Hathaway dumped its shares of newspaper giant Gannett according to SEC documents, and took a new position in Dish Network. — In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission …
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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Maer Roshan Joins Board of Directors at Assignmint.com — Maer Roshan, former editor of Radar and founder of the recently shuttered The Fix, is joining the board of directors at Assignmint.com, a start-up job management site designed to streamline the editorial process between freelance writers and publishers.
Wenqian Zhu / CNNMoney.com:
Journalist jobs are picking up — Jobs for journalists are on the upswing. — That's good news for an industry in upheaval. Just this month, there's been a flurry of deals involving struggling marquee American publications. Amazon ( AMZN, Fortune 500) founder and CEO Jeff Bezos bought …
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