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Time Warner Cable may drop more channels after CBS spat
Time Warner Cable customers who have already lost CBS and Showtime may lose even more cable channels if retransmission agreements cannot be reached with other companies within the next month
Reports: AOL’s Patch laying off hundreds of employees Friday
Patch, the ambitious hyperlocal news website operated by AOL, is set to lay off as many as 500 editorial employees on Friday, according to two news reports.
CBS: Time Warner negotiations “badly off course”
Negotiations between CBS and Time Warner Cable over retransmission fees have gone "badly off course," an executive with CBS said on Thursday.
Sinclair boss eases on national plans for NewsChannel 8
Sinclair Broadcasting Group's CEO conceded Wednesday that he was ambitious when he discussed plans to transform Allbrittton's local cable station NewsChannel 8 into a national news service.
Nine alternatives to Al Jazeera English’s online stream
The Desk has compiled a list of several news channels that stream online as a comparable alternative to Al Jazeera English, which is set to block it stream in the U.S. on August 20.
CBS confirms website blocked for Time Warner Cable internet customers
CBS confirms it is blocking Time Warner Cable internet customers from accessing streaming video on its website as the two companies work through a carriage dispute.
KTVU editor nearly stopped erroneous Asiana report from airing
A veteran journalist with KTVU-TV nearly saved the station from embarrassment last month when she raised concern about the authenticity of four names purporting to belong to pilots aboard Asiana Airlines Flight 214.
PBS taps Gwen Ifill, Judy Woodruff to host “NewsHour”
Journalists Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff will be the new co-anchors of the PBS NewsHour, the network announced on Tuesday.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos buys Washington Post newspaper
Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of internet retailer Amazon, has reached a deal to purchase the Washington Post newspaper and related assets, the paper announced Monday afternoon.
Bloomberg News editor fired over inaccurate headline
A Bloomberg editor was fired on Friday after he erroneously sent an inaccurate headline regarding a former Goldman Sachs banker.
Sinclair plans to take Washington’s NewsChannel 8 national
Sinclair Broadcasting Group, the new owners of Washington, D.C. cable channel NewsChannel 8, wants to air the channel across the country.
Dateline’s Chris Hanson to leave NBC News
NBC News personality Chris Hansen, best known for his various television exposes on suspected child predators, is parting ways with the network.