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    NBC lands $1.9 billion in ads, others press on: source (Reuters)
    Reuters - The top U.S. TV networks have moved closer to booking the bulk of their prime-time advertising deals for the 2008-09 season, with NBC first to wrap up $1.9 billion in broadcast deals, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday. -- read full article
    Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:55:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Ozzy Osbourne wins damages over "freak show" slur (Reuters)

    Ozzy Osbourne performs at the Hultsfred festival June 15, 2007. (Fredrik Sandberg/Scanpix Sweden/Reuters)Reuters - Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne won "substantial" damages on Thursday from the publishers of the Daily Star newspaper over a report that the singer's poor health had thrown a music awards show into chaos.


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    Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:09:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    "Grand Theft Auto" boosts Take-Two profit (Reuters)
    Reuters - Take-Two Interactive Software Inc raised its profit forecasts and posted higher-than-expected quarterly earnings on Thursday, citing the success of its criminal action video game "Grand Theft Auto 4." -- read full article
    Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:24:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Fox delays fall premiere plans (Reuters)
    Reuters - Fox is shifting its fall premiere plans. -- read full article
    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:46:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Universal fire a hot topic among film archivists (Reuters)

    Firefighters work to contain a fire at Universal Studios in Los Angeles June 1, 2008. (Phil McCarten/Reuters)Reuters - The recent fire damage to Universal Studios' video vault underscores the significance of film preservation and archiving, which already been receiving increased industrywide attention.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:47:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    EU extends review of News Corp bid for Premiere (Reuters)

    News Corp Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch speaks during a news conference before the 2008 Atlantic Council Awards Dinner in Washington April 21, 2008. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)Reuters - The European Commission on Thursday extended until June 25 its review of News Corp's bid to acquire control of German pay-TV broadcaster Premiere, to consider proposed remedies to competition concerns.


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    Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:48:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Settlement reached in Cablevision lawsuit (Reuters)
    Reuters - Cablevision Systems Corp on Thursday agreed to settle an investor lawsuit over its stock options award practices in a pact worth $34.4 million, with a group of 16 individual defendants paying about two-thirds of the settlement. -- read full article
    Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:45:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    FCC chief says will act soon on XM-Sirius deal (Reuters)

    A person walks through the lobby of the XM Satellite Radio building in Washington, March 25, 2008. (Larry Downing/Reuters)Reuters - The U.S. Federal Communications will act soon on Sirius Satellite Radio's proposed purchase of rival XM Satellite Radio, the chairman of the FCC said on Thursday.


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    Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:24:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Washington Post unit to develop Web magazines (Reuters)
    Reuters - The Washington Post Co said on Wednesday that it is launching a new unit that will develop and manage a family of Web-based magazines. -- read full article
    Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:26:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    TV Tidbits: Notes of Interest (Mediaweek.com)
    Mediaweek.com - Comedian and former sitcom star D.L. Hughley has been named host of the BET Awards 2008, which air on BET on Tuesday, June 24 at 8 p.m. ET. -- read full article
    Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:12:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    National Ratings in Prime-Time: Week of May 26, 2008 (Mediaweek.com)
    Mediaweek.com - Mirroring all spring, CBS and Fox shared leadership for this first full week of the non-traditional season. CBS was first in households and total viewers; Fox was No. 1 among the three key demos -- adults 18-49, adults 25-54 and adults 18-34 for the week of May 26. But overall ratings, of course, were considerably lower minus American Idol and the short-lived library of original scripted series. Led by the successful return of summer favorite So You Think You Can Dance, Fox was close to year-ago levels. CBS was also down only marginally from one year earlier. -- read full article
    Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:12:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Ratings Box: What’s Hot/What’s Not (Mediaweek.com)
    Mediaweek.com - Original Lifetime Movie Network made-for Secrets of the Summer House on Sunday, June 1 rose to the cable net’s second highest ratings ever (behind Green River Killer) among key women 18-49 (1.02 rating) and women 25-54 (1.19 rating). Comparably, that placed it among the top 25 of all basic cable programs for the day in women 18-49. -- read full article
    Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:12:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    SEC lays ground for real-time Web stock quotes (Reuters)
    Reuters - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday laid the groundwork that could lead to Web sites such as Google Inc and Yahoo Inc publishing real-time stock quotes. -- read full article
    Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:37:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Yahoo talks to Microsoft, trades barbs with Icahn (Reuters)

    The headquarters of Yahoo Inc. is shown in Sunnyvale, California May 5, 2008. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)Reuters - Yahoo Inc said on Wednesday that deal talks are ongoing with Microsoft Corp as the company resisted an attack by billionaire critic Carl Icahn, who called its recent actions "deceitful."


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    Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:01:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Paramount Vantage, Paramount combining operations (AP)
    AP - Paramount Pictures said Wednesday it will combine its marketing, distribution and production functions with indie label Paramount Vantage. -- read full article
    Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:01:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
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