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    Ratings Box: What's Hot/What's Not (Mediaweek.com)
    Mediaweek.com - It was another week of split leadership in daytime, with CBS the-most watched network (for the 1,004th consecutive week) and ABC first among target women 18-49 for the sixth straight week. Led by an appearance by Michelle Obama, The View rose to its most-watched week (4.5 million) in four months and its best performance in women 18-34 (355,000) and women 18-49 (1.1 million) in two months. -- read full article
    Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Prime-Time Metered Market Thursday Ratings: Positive Start for ABC's Hopkins; More Erosion for C
    Mediaweek.com - -Yesterday's Winners: Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (Fox), So You Think You Can Dance (Fox), Hopkins (ABC) -- read full article
    Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    News Corp, Permira to take NDS private (Reuters)

    News Corp Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch delivers a speech during a session at the Cannes Lions 2008 International Advertising Festival June 19, 2008. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)Reuters - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp said on Friday it proposed to take set-top box maker NDS Group Plc private for $60 per share in a transaction financed by private equity firm Permira.


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    Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:52:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    State Farm brings advertainment to the Latino masses (Reuters)
    Reuters - If TV is the new radio, advertising firm Alma DDB has taken the concept a step further with the creation of Los Felinos de la Noche. -- read full article
    Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:39:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Authorized lyrics sites struggle to grow (Reuters)
    Reuters - More than a year after the introduction of lyric licensing programs, several online music services that implemented them are reporting mixed feelings about their results. -- read full article
    Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:40:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Coldplay's sales feats heat up album charts (Reuters)

    Chris Martin of British band Coldplay performs during a concert, part of the 'Viva la vida' tour, in Barcelona June 17, 2008. (Albert Gea/Reuters)Reuters - Coldplay keeps the top soil fertile on the Billboard 200, as "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" opens with 721,000 sold.


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    Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:23:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    FCC votes to consider new "embedded" ad rules (Reuters)
    Reuters - U.S. regulators on Thursday took a step toward adopting stricter rules on the growing use of product placements by television advertisers. -- read full article
    Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:07:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Ratings Box: What's Hot/What's Not (Mediaweek.com)
    Mediaweek.com - ABC's revamped Tuesday -- Wipeout, I Survived a Japanese Game Show and Primetime: The Outsiders -- lifted the network to victory on June 24, with a first-place finish across all key adult, men and women demographics. Wipeout opened with a dominant 9.99 million viewers and a 3.7 rating/12 share among adults 18-49 at 8 p.m. -- Tuesday's top-rated series in the demo. Wipeout led the evening in all key demos, with ABC's biggest summer series debut since July 13, 2005. And it was the network's best summer series ratings in the time period since August 28, 2001. ... -- read full article
    Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:13:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Prime-Time Metered Market Wednesday Ratings: Fox Dances to Victory, Respectable Sampling for NBC'
    Mediaweek.com - -Yesterday's Winners: So You Think You Can Dance (Fox), Baby Borrowers (NBC), Criminal Minds R (CBS), CSI: NY R (CBS), Primetime: Crime (ABC) -- read full article
    Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:13:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Emmy organizers unveil top 10 comedies, dramas (Reuters)

    The ensemble cast of the television series 'Greys' Anatomy' (L-R) Eric Dane, Kate Walsh, Chandra Wilson, Sandra Oh and Ellen Pompeo accept the award for best ensemble in a drama series at the 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles January 28, 2007. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)Reuters - Emmy organizers for the first time ever on Thursday unveiled a list of the top 10 comedies and 10 dramas competing to be nominated for U.S. television's highest honors, which are presented in September.


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    Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:31:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    NBC.com sees "tens of millions" in revenue in 2009 (Reuters)
    Reuters - NBC.com is expected to generate "tens of millions" of dollars in revenue next year, an NBC Universal executive said on Thursday. -- read full article
    Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:32:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Actors union expected to seek contract extension (Reuters)

    The Hollywood sign is seen on a hazy afternoon in Los Angeles, California, November 4, 2007. (Danny Moloshok/Reuters)Reuters - With Hollywood actors' major film and TV labor contract set to expire in days, union negotiators are expected to seek an extension of the pact with studios, giving them more time to reach a deal and avoid a strike.


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    Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:12:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    News Corp may bid on Premiere, Digital+: report (Reuters)
    Reuters - News Corp may bid for two major pay-TV players, Germany's Premiere AG and Spain's Digital+, in a move that could give more responsibility to James Murdoch, son of Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. -- read full article
    Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:40:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Sony to start US movie service for PS3 (AP)

    Sony Chief Executive Howard Stringer, center, poses with Sony President & Electronics CEO Ryoji Chubashi, right, and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. President & Group CEO Kazuo Hirai  before a press conference  in Tokyo, Thursday, June 26, 2008. Sony outlined its strategy for growth Thursday geared at regaining its lead in TVs, wiping out the red ink in video games and rolling out movie services to woo Net-savvy consumers.   (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)AP - Sony says it will start a movie download service for its PlayStation 3 home console this summer in the U.S.


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    Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:18:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Settlement in NY lawsuit over NBC's 'Predator' (AP)

    The General Electric Building which houses NBC's headquarters in New York is pictured in this September 1995 file photo. NBC Universal has settled a $105 million lawsuit brought by a woman who claimed a televised sex sting by 'Dateline NBC: To Catch A Predator' drove her brother to kill himself. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, file)AP - NBC Universal has settled a $105 million lawsuit brought by a woman who claimed a televised sex sting by "Dateline NBC: To Catch A Predator" drove her brother to kill himself.


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    Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:36:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
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