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Late donations bolster pro-Deasy school board candidates
L.A. NOWTwo eleventh hour donations have added financial muscle to a campaign seeking to bolster Los Angeles schools Supt. John Deasy through the results of Tuesday’s Board of Education elections. The Sacramento-based California Charter Schools Assn. has... -
L.A. Now Live: LAUSD board election watched nationwide
L.A. NOWThe Times' education reporter Howard Blume will join L.A. Now Live at 9 a.m. Tuesday to discuss the Los Angeles Unified school board races, an election that's being monitored around the country. Ten candidates are on the ballot for three seats on the... -
'Jack the Giant Slayer' is slayed. Will 'Oz' be great and powerful?
After the coffee. Before yet another flight back to Los Angeles. The Skinny: I've said it before and I'll say it again. AMC's "The Walking Dead" could have worked on broadcast TV. The show has very little sex and language issues, and the gore could be...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, The Walking Dead (tv program), Jimmy Fallon, Oz the Great and Powerful (movie), Danny Elfman
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News Corp. exiting New Zealand, to divest pay-TV service
News Corp. plans to exit New Zealand as part of the company's larger mission to simplify its sprawling holdings. The company, controlled by mogul Rupert Murdoch, announced over the weekend that News Limited, its Australian subsidiary, intends to...
Tags: Deutsche Bank AG, Rupert Murdoch, Printing Service, New Zealand, Media Industry
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Rupert Murdoch may snap up Bel-Air winery. Or not.
A new story in the March 8 issue of the Hollywood Reporter floats the idea that News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch may be interested in buying Moraga Vineyards, the 13-acre Bel-Air estate now for sale at close to $30 million. The...
Tags: Rupert Murdoch, Farms
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Bidder emerges for Hulu: former Fox exec Peter Chernin
Bidders are circling for the popular video website Hulu, including one of the service's initial architects: Peter Chernin, the former News Corp. president. Chernin has long been one Hulu's most passionate advocates. His Chernin Group has offered more...
Tags: The Walt Disney Co., Jeff Zucker, Television Industry, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Media Industry
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Aereo beats broadcasters' legal challenge, trial likely
Aereo, a media company that distributes broadcast programming via the Internet, survived a major legal challenge to its business from CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox and other broadcasters. In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Entertainment, Barry Diller, Court Preliminary, Univision (tv network)
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Ignoring doomsayers, CBS and News Corp. keep betting on cable TV
CBS and News Corp. apparently aren't worried about cord cutters. Both companies are making investments in pay-television channels at a time when the very business model on which the industry is built faces challenges from changing consumer habits and...
Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Sales, NASCAR, Entertainment, Nickelodeon (tv network)
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FX to launch new sister channel FXX in September
FX is going to try to clone itself. The News Corp.-owned cable network -- home to such critically acclaimed shows as "Justified" and "Sons of Anarchy" -- is launching a sister channel this fall, dubbed FXX. To get the channel off to a strong start, FX...
Tags: Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company, Television, FX (tv channel), Fox Sports (tv network)
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CNN details new morning show. Hearst makes change. FX unveils FXX.
After the coffee. Before trying to make a clone to do my grunt work. The Skinny: Was excited to see "Nashville" back, but did we really need a Katie Couric cameo? It felt forced and didn't add much to the plot. It's a busy Thursday morning as CNN...
Tags: Katie Couric, Entertainment, G.I. Joe: Retaliation (movie), Hearst Corporation, Television
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Chernin revamps film unit; Jenno Topping named president
This post has been corrected. See note at bottom. Peter Chernin's entertainment company is shuffling its feature film division and casting Jenno Topping as its new president of films. Topping joined Chernin Entertainment two years ago and has been...
Tags: Sam Worthington, Entertainment, Bruce Willis, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., John Malkovich
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Fox's Tim McCarver stepping down after this season
Legendary baseball broadcaster Tim McCarver is stepping down from his job as Fox's lead baseball analyst after this season. A former catcher with the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies, McCarver has held the job since 1996, when the network...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Joe Buck, Fox Broadcasting Company, Baseball, John Madden
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