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Obama to nominate venture capitalist Thomas Wheeler to head FCC
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday will nominate venture capitalist Thomas Wheeler as the nation's top telecommunications regulator, tapping a major campaign fundraiser with long ties to the media and the telecom industries, White House and...Tags: Elections, White House, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate, Political Fundraising
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Watching and waiting for verdict in Jodi Arias murder case
PHOENIX -- It has become a real-life soap opera watched by people around the world and dozens of fanatics who camp out on a Phoenix sidewalk in the middle of the night to get into the show. One seat even sold for $200. A cable network has set up a stage...
Tags: Shootings, Murder, Trials, Twitter, Inc., Sex Crimes
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Turner Sports getting more of NCAA tournament
The migration of big sports events to cable TV continues. In 2016, TBS, the cable channel owned by Time Warner, will carry the NCAA college basketball championship game as part of its deal to share rights to the sports property with CBS. TBS will...
Tags: College Basketball, Entertainment, Television Industry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, TBS (tv network)
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Ticked off! @ police officer
I'm ticked off at a person who won't stop the fake laugh after everything that is said. Every so often, it's good to laugh, but after everything that's said? It gets annoying, especially, with all of the sarcasm. I'm ticked off that years ago, the... -
Teel Time: Swofford discusses ACC divisions, revenue sharing, bowls
The last year has been the most stabilizing and fortyifying in ACC history. Also the most turbulent. From the additions of Notre Dame and Louisville to the loss of Maryland. From the renewal of contracts with ESPN to the Orange Bowl partnership with the...Tags: Virginia Cavaliers, College Basketball, Madison Square Garden, Atlantic Coast Conference, Pacific-12 Conference
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PTC, Morality in Media press Congress over FCC indecency rules
Angry about a proposal to relax the Federal Communications Commission's rules regulating indecent content on broadcast television and radio, the Parents Television Council and Morality in Media are pressing Congress to stop the regulatory agency in its...
Tags: Values, Religion and Belief, Science and Technology, U.S. Congress, Entertainment
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The weight of the presidency
— Chris Christie underwent lap band surgery over Presidents Day weekend because the three-day holiday gave him time to recuperate, and because no decision he makes can be free of some connection to the presidency. The New Jersey governor checked...
Tags: Elections, Executive Branch, U.S. Congress, Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey
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Men's Final Four going to cable
For the first time in NCAA Tournament history, Final Four games will be shown only on cable television, with the national championship game airing two days later on CBS. The national semifinal games played on "Final Four Saturday" will be aired only on...Tags: CBS Corp., TNT (tv network), National Collegiate Athletic Association, TBS (tv network), Television Industry
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YouTube poised to enter subscription business for some content
The next time you click on a YouTube video, you might be asked to pony up some cash before it plays. The Google-owned online video site is getting ready to enter the subscription business, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The...
Tags: Photography Supplies and Services, Google Inc., Muhammad Ali, Television Industry, Media Industry
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ABC expected to tap OWN's Whitney Holland for scheduling position
ABC is expected to finally fill a key position in its scheduling department by tapping Whitney Holland as its new vice president of program planning and acquisitions, according to people close to her and ABC. Holland joins ABC from OWN, the cable...
Tags: CNN (tv network), Hallmark Channel (tv network), Discovery Communications, Inc., CBS Corp., NBC (tv network)
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D.C. insider Tom Wheeler likely to be nominated to head FCC
A Washington insider with close ties to the media and telecommunications, is expected to be tapped as the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Tom Wheeler, who has headed lobbying associations for both the cable television and...
Tags: White House, U.S. Congress, Corporate Officers, Federal Communications Commission, Television Industry
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Teel Time: Swofford met with Virginia Board to discuss ACC's grant of rights
Less than 24 hours before ACC presidents unanimously approved the conference’s landmark grant of rights last month, commissioner John Swofford met with Virginia’s Board of Visitors in Charlottesville. But the trip was not a last-minute sales...
Tags: Virginia Cavaliers, Trials, Florida State Seminoles, Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), College Football
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