Mediagazer: Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor makes cash offer to buy Minneapolis Star Tribune (Jennifer Bjorhus/Minneapolis Star Tribune)

10:05 PM ET, April 1, 2014

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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:

Comcast Stock Drop Complicates TWC Deal — Takeover Value Falls to $144 a Share, Giving Charter a Possible Opening — Comcast Corp.'s deal to buy Time Warner Cable Inc. has run into an unexpected source of turbulence: a weak stock price. — In the nearly seven weeks since the deal was announced …

Discussion: @shaliniwsj and @miriamgottfried

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Comcast Plans $2.5 Billion More in Stock Buybacks

Discussion: Radio & Television … and Deadline.com

Liana B. Baker / Reuters: Comcast: Business services is sweet spot in Time Warner Cable deal

Jennifer Bjorhus / Minneapolis Star Tribune:

Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor makes cash offer to buy Minneapolis Star Tribune — Glen Taylor makes move to buy Star Tribune — Taylor said Star Tribune will operate as a stand alone news organization. — Minnesota business magnate Glen Taylor has made a formal offer …

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Tara Conlan / Guardian:

London Live's top-rated show draws 22,000 viewers — Not the One Show pulls highest audience of night for new channel, but its repeat of Channel 4's Misfits reached just 2,000 — Not the One Show: its mix of entertainment and current affairs made it the most popular show on the new channel

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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

‘60 Minutes’ Apologizes for Audio Editing in Tesla Report — “60 Minutes” has apologized for an editing error in Scott Pelley's feature on Tesla founder Elon Musk Sunday night. — As an electric car, the Tesla Model S doesn't make a typical engine noise, so the editor added some sound for effect.

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Tom Bawden / The Independent:

Government accuses BBC of creating ‘false balance’ on climate change with unqualified sceptics — The BBC has been accused of misleading the public about climate change, creating a “false balance” by allowing unqualified climate sceptics too much air time and giving opinion the same weight as fact.

Discussion: Guardian, Financial Times, BBC and The Carbon Brief

Lewis DVorkin / Forbes:

Forbes' Lewis DVorkin responds to criticism of linking journalists pay to web traffic — Inside Forbes: The Role of Pay and Traffic in Our Search for a New Media Equation — Full disclosure: I've used this headline before. Actually, only the second half of it.

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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

News Corp wins dismissal of U.S. lawsuit over phone hacking — (Reuters) - News Corp, its Chairman Rupert Murdoch and other top officials have won the dismissal of a U.S. lawsuit accusing them of defrauding shareholders by concealing widespread, illegal phone hacking at two of its British newspapers.

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Mark Bergen / AdAge:

Apple opens iAd Workbench to everyone with an Apple ID, launches video ads — Build Your Own iAd: Apple Throws Open Door to Platform — Apple is making its advertising ecosystem more accessible. — Starting today, anyone with an Apple ID will be able to open an account with iAd Workbench …

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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

It's Becoming Clear That CNN Boss Jeff Zucker Is, In Fact, Exactly What The Network Needed — Here at Business Insider, we have TVs hanging all over the newsroom, and for the last few days, the one across from me has been showing CNN. — As a result, I can tell you that CNN is, in fact …

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Madeleine Heffernan / Sydney Morning Herald:

Public debate in danger as News Corp nears monopoly on Australian print market, says ABC chief — Media set to get more partisan, says ABC chief Mark Scott — The Australian media will likely follow the US and the UK in becoming increasingly politically partisan, according to ABC managing director Mark Scott.

Brendan Sasso / NationalJournal.com:

Netflix's Net-Neutrality Plea Gets Rejected by the FCC — But the agency might still regulate negotiations between websites and Internet providers. — Kevin Spacey stars in Netflix's House of Cards. (JEMAL COUNTESS/Getty Images) — The Federal Communications Commission has no plans …

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Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:

With help from Twitter's Biz Stone, Colbert kills the @ColbertReport account after tweetstorm — Did Stephen Colbert Bow to Pressure by Deleting @ColbertReport? — The #CancelColbert saga came to a head last night when Stephen Colbert dedicated almost all his show to this past weekend's campaign …

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Upworthy moves into native advertising, inks ad deal with Unilever — Upworthy to Run Native Ads That Try to Make You Feel Good — Viral Site Eyes Revenue, Signs Unilever as Sponsor — Ad Age Digital Conference 2014 — After two years of building a formidable traffic machine …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Thanks:@joshluger

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Dish Launches ESPN, ABC and Disney Internet-Video Services — Dish Network is now officially on the Mouse House's TV Everywhere list. — The development could help encourage the satcaster's subscribers to stick with the pay-TV service, instead of switching an over-the-top option …