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Tribune Co. to buy music data company Gracenote for $170 million
Dec. 23, 2013
Tribune Co. has reached an agreement with Sony Corp. of America to acquire Gracenote Inc., a music data company.
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Sony Corp.’
April 23, 2008
Technology and the Internet
Napster Inc. enlisted the help of Berkeley-based Gracenote in blocking copyrighted songs from its online music-sharing service, as required by a federal court injunction.
March 14, 2001
Entertainment & Arts
News Corp.’
Oct. 31, 2006
Time Warner Cable and Viacom Inc., parent of popular channels MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, have renewed their long-term distribution agreement.
Dec. 24, 2013
Pop & Hiss
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July 21, 2011
Company Town
Tribune Media Co. has agreed to sell Gracenote, its digital entertainment and data business, to Nielsen Co. for $560 million.
Dec. 20, 2016
William Wang, founder and chairman of TV maker Vizio Inc., had receded into the background at the Irvine company in recent years.
Aug. 30, 2016
Entertainment metadata juggernaut Gracenote acquired Baseline for $50 million on Wednesday, adding to its portfolio descriptions of more than 300,000 movies and TV shows dating back to 1896.
Sept. 3, 2014