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Celeb Bits: MySpace Scene Junkie; Virgin/Popbitch Trade Radio Ambitions - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 05 May 2008 03:19 PM PST

Catching up on news from the Bank Holiday weekend and the end of last week… -- MySpace: The social net has unveiled a UK version of its Scene Junkie entertainment…

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Times Online Looks To Leverage US Audience With WSJ Cross-Selling Ad Opps - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 01 May 2008 05:16 AM PST

Times Online has set up an advertising office in New York and will work with News Corp’s recently acquired Wall Street Journal website to help “monetise” its US readership, reports…

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Earnings: BSkyB Confirms Tiscali Interest; Revs Up 10 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 30 Apr 2008 02:01 AM PST

BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) released third quarter results today, showing that the pay TV group had a nine-month adjusted operating profit of £521 million with revenues up 10 percent at £3.71…

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Murdoch vs BBC Round Two: iPlayer ‘Is Anti-Competitive’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 25 Apr 2008 01:10 AM PST

James Murdoch may no longer be BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) CEO but, as CEO of his daddy’s wider News Corp (NYSE: NWS). he’s still disgruntled with the BBC’s catch-up TV service.…

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Sony/BSkyB Name PSP VOD ‘Go!View’; Where’s The Wireless? - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 24 Apr 2008 03:48 AM PST

BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) and Sony (NYSE: SNE) have unveiled the name and launch date for their forthcoming PSP TV collaboration. Adding to the Go! brand that already includes the Go!Cam…

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Dow Jones’ Wealth-Bulletin Relaunches, Turns To Print - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 21 Apr 2008 07:50 AM PST

Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) has relaunched Wealth-Bulletin, the private banking news site it picked up earlier this year, and plans to launch a print spin-off of the site. The new…

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Multiple Suitors for BSkyB’s Stake in ITV; Includes RTL and Saban - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 19 Apr 2008 08:45 PM PST

The controversial 17.9 percent stake that BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) holds in ITV (LSE: ITV) has been up for sale, and multiple suitors have expressed interest. Among them, European broadcaster RTL…

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Freesheet thelondonpaper Lost £16.5 Million In First Year - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Apr 2008 04:55 AM PST

Suddenly, the economics of free don’t look so rosy. Thelondonpaper, the freesheet Rupert Murdoch’s News International started in 2006, made £8 million revenue in its first year - but lost…

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Print Bits: Mail’s Busy Redesign; Times’ Losses - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Apr 2008 06:16 AM PST

-- Mail: Mail Online is beta testing a re-design for its Daily and Sunday print titles. The new site’s chunky homepage is busier than even the new-look Guardian.co.uk‘s front. Beta.dailymail.co.uk…

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As News Corp. Increases Its Stake In Premiere, Additional Board Seats Are Sought - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 14 Apr 2008 08:46 PM PST

Earlier this month, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). announced it was upping its 22.7 percent stake in Munich-based subscription TV network Premiere. Reports estimated that News Corp. was looking to hold…

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MySpace And ShineReveille Partner On International TV Distribution - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 10 Apr 2008 02:47 PM PST

MySpace has signed a distribution deal with UK TV production house ShineReveille that’s intended to expand the reach of their original programming internationally and online, according to The Hollywood Reporter.…

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News Corp’s Propertyfinder Buys HotProperty.co.uk For £5.6 Million. - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 10 Apr 2008 08:06 AM PST

The Propertyfinder home search site is buying HotProperty.co.uk operator Sherlock Publications for £5.6 million, uniting the two under the growing real estate interest in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NYSE: NWS)…

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MipTV Round-Up: Hulu Aims Global; MySpaceTV New Production; Orange UK IPTV - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 10 Apr 2008 03:22 AM PST

Threads from the TV content market happening on the Croisette in Cannes… -- Hulu aims global: Jason Kilar, CEO of the NBC/News Corp (NYSE: NWS) web TV JV Hulu.com, told…

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BSkyB Moves: Danny Rimer Joins Board; Griffith Upped To CFO - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Apr 2008 02:57 AM PST

Index Ventures partner Danny Rimer has added BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) to the growing number of board tables around which he sits. Rimer, who opened Index in London in 2002 and…

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News Video Study: Roo’s ‘Bloody Mess’, BBC ‘Too Traditional’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Apr 2008 02:24 AM PST

City University electronic publishing academic Neil Thurman presented a paper on online news video at the ninth International Symposium on Online Journalism in Texas at the weekend. Though previous papers…

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Fox Ad Net Comes To UK, Aiming To Scoop News Corp Inventory - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 03 Apr 2008 04:12 AM PST

News Corp (NYSE: NWS) is bringing its .Fox Networks ("dot Fox") web ads network to the UK with the aim of making it the exclusive ad net of choice for…

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In Print: WSJ US In London; Statesman Sells Stake - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 02 Apr 2008 06:55 AM PST

- WSJ US: News Corp (NYSE: NWS) will this month begin selling the main US edition of Wall Street Journal in the UK. It’s not the FT-killer some think it…

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BBC And ITV Seek Legal Advice Against Listings Aggregator TVguide.co.uk - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 27 Mar 2008 06:23 AM PST

The BBC and ITV (LSE: ITV) have sought the advice of lawyers to determine whether the deep-linking that online TV listings site TVguide.co.uk does to their online video streaming is…

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NOTW Flushes Story: Shutting Stable Door After Horse Has Bolted? - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 26 Mar 2008 08:35 AM PST

The News Of The World has been forced to remove from its website a story that made lurid allegations about Derby County manager Paul Jewell’s private life. The story was…

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Sky Sports Wins Champions League Web, Mobile Rights - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 18 Mar 2008 04:58 AM PST

BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) won the rights to show Champions League matches on internet and mobile until 2012, along with the majority of TV matches (release). The network coughed up a…

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Video: Kaplinsky’s New Gig - MySpace News Anchor - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 11 Mar 2008 06:16 AM PST

We mentioned yesterday Five News had become MySpace TV’s latest syndication partner. Here it is. Turns out, former BBC doyenne Natasha Kaplinsky, just weeks after leaving Auntie for the fifth…

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Industry Moves: Murdoch Picks News Corp Europe CFO - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 25 Feb 2008 10:14 AM PST

James Murdoch is promoting Sky Italia COO Mark Williams to become News Corp CFO for Europe and Asia. Williams will relocate to London in March, in Murdoch’s first senior appointment…

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UK Bits: Virgin Appeals BSkyB; Disney Traffic Up - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 25 Feb 2008 10:13 AM PST

- Virgin appeals BSkyB: Now both BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) and Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) are appealing the Competition Commission’s ruling the satellite broadcaster should slim its 17.9 percent ITV (LSE:…

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BSkyB To Appeal ITV Share Ruling Tomorrow - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 21 Feb 2008 07:13 AM PST

As expected, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) will challenge the Competition Commission’s ruling it must drop most of its ITV (LSE: ITV) share in an appeal to the Competition Appeals Tribunal tomorrow.…

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Industry Moves: MyKindaPlace Founder Redmayne To Head HarperCollins Digital - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 20 Feb 2008 08:57 AM PST

Charlie Redmayne, MD of BSkyB’s (NYSE: BSY) teen girl portal MyKindaPlace, is leaving to head up HarperCollins’ digital publishing efforts. Redmayne, who has latterly been head of Sky’s commercial partnerships…

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