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Discovery relieved that no staffers were harmed in hostage taking

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Following Wednesday’s hostage standoff at Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, MD, which ended with the suspect being killed by police, the cable TV programming ...
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Man shot after taking hostages at Discovery Communications HQ

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Police shot and killed a man Wednesday afternoon nearly four hours after he took hostages on the first floor of the headquarters of Discovery Communications ...
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Breaking: Discovery hostage taker shot

Police have shot the man who took three hostages Wednesday at about 1:00 pm ET at Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, MD. Montgomery County Police Chief ...
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Apple ready to sell TV shows for 99 cents

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Apple Inc. is moving deeper into the video business. CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday (9/1) took the wraps off a new Apple TV device that ...
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Breaking: Man holding hostages at Discovery HQ

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A man claiming to have explosives has taken hostages at the headquarters of Discovery Communications in Silver Spring, MD, just outside Washington, DC. Gannett's WUSA-TV reports ...
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DGA says grassroots effort has matched News Corp. RGA donation

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After Fox News Channel parent News Corp. gave $1M to the Republican Governors Association, the Democratic Governors Association mounted a fund-raising effort to collect what ...
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Conan O’Brien and TBS announce new show title

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There’s no word on how much was spent on focus groups, consultants and research, but TBS and Conan O’Brien have come up with a name ...
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Hallmark Channels pulled from AT&T U-verse

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The Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel disappeared from AT&T U-verse nationwide as of Wednesday, September 1st as the two sides were unable to come ...
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Carl Icahn ups the ante for Lionsgate

Rather than $6.50 per share, or his previous offer of $7.00, Carl Icahn now says he’s willing to pay $7.50 to buy out all other ...
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CEO withdraws bid to take Mediacom private

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Mediacom Communications founder and CEO Rocco Commisso announced Tuesday (8/31) that he has withdrawn his May 31st offer to buy out other shareholders and take ...
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Time Warner, Walt Disney come to carriage terms

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There will be no disruption of service to Time Warner Cable subscribers in regards to programming supplied by ESPN and ABC Television parent Walt Disney Company. The two media giants are said to have an agreement on a new carriage contract...
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Michael Riley gets ABC Family

Radio Disney Sr. VP/GM Michael Riley is returning to television. He’s the new President of ABC Family, filling the vacancy created when Paul Lee was ...
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NFL television sales leaving 2009 pace in the dust

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Advertisers have claimed an estimated 95% of the Fox 2010 NFL television schedule, well ahead of the state of sales just before the first kickoff last year. And on top of that, Super Bowl inventory is...
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Suspect charged in murder of Kansas City TV news staffer

Scripps’ KSHB-TV (NBC) Kansas City reports that a 20-year-old man has been charged with the July murder of NBC Action News evening assignment editor Nick ...
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Cable dominated Emmy Awards

Cable’s HBO and AMC were the big winners at Sunday’s 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards. For the broadcast networks, ABC and CBS won the most statuettes.  ABC’s ...
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Pro and con economists weigh in at FCC Comcast/NBC meeting

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A Friday 8/27/10 closed door meeting at the FCC will get the viewpoints of economists representing companies and organizations with varying viewpoints on the proposed ...
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U.S. TV Households climbs by 1 Million for 2010-11 TV season

For the 2010-2011 broadcast season, Nielsen estimates the total number of TV households in the U.S. will climb to 115.9 million, an increase of one ...
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Time Warner, Disney battle on one issue, ally on another

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Contentious negotiations on the costs system operator Time Warner Cable will pay for pricy programming from Walt Disney Co., notably its ESPN suite of channels, continue to drag on with both...
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Hallmark, AT&T U-verse locked in carriage dispute

Crown Media Holdings says that telco MVPD AT&T U-verse is allowing carriage distribution talks to remain at a standstill, leading to the possible loss to ...
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ACME misses the black ink bus in Q2 2010

With only six television stations in five markets, ACME Communications is far from the top of the television group heap. None are big four affiliates, ...
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