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L.A. school board election: Garcia, Zimmer maintain early leads
L.A. NOWAs early election results in the Los Angeles school board election continued to trickle in late Tuesday, two-term incumbent Monica Garcia bolstered her strong lead in District 2, one-term incumbent Steve Zimmer continued to maintain his hold on District 4... -
News Corp. unveils long-anticipated Fox Sports cable channel
In the latest sign of how valuable the media industry considers sports programming, News Corp. on Tuesday unveiled plans for Fox Sports 1, a new national cable channel it hopes will eventually challenge Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN empire. Scheduled to launch...
Tags: Marketing, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Fox Broadcasting Company, Television Industry, NASCAR
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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... -
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... -
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: New Zealand, Printing Service, Media Industry, Deutsche Bank AG, Rupert Murdoch
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'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: James Franco, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., The Walt Disney Co., The Walking Dead (tv program), Girls (tv program)
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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: Farms, Rupert Murdoch
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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: Melissa McCarthy, Entertainment, John Malkovich, Sam Worthington, Sandra Bullock
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Tribune Co. hires investment bankers to explore sale of newspaper unit
Tribune Co. has hired investment bankers to advise the media company on the sale of its newspaper publishing unit, according to a source familiar with the matter. The company has retained JPMorgan Chase & Co. to oversee a potential sale of the...
Tags: Banking, Tribune Company, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, Chicago Tribune
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Time Warner Cable and DirecTV support Cablevison in Viacom fight
Pay-TV distributors Time Warner Cable and DirecTV have come out in support of Cablevision Systems Corp.'s lawsuit against Viacom Inc. The battle is over how Viacom, parent of more than 20 cable channels including MTV and Nickelodeon, sells its...
Tags: Television, Entertainment, Satellite and Cable Service, The Walt Disney Co., Viacom Inc.
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Cablevision sues Viacom over bundling of programming
Cablevision Systems Corp., one of the nation's biggest pay-TV distributors, has filed a lawsuit against Viacom, parent of popular cable channels such as MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. At issue is how Viacom sells its cable networks to pay-TV...
Tags: Television, Entertainment, Cablevision Systems Corp., Anti Trust Crime, VH1 (tv network)
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'Die Hard' is soft. 'Safe Haven' is strong. UFC vs. Bellator.
After the coffee. Before getting back into work mode. The Skinny: I watched "The Following" last night and fear it has started to take a bad turn. I don't want to play spoiler but I do hate it when a character does something they never would do in the...
Tags: Paul Harvey, World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., Sports, The CW (tv network), Zero Dark Thirty (movie)
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