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• Star Tribune Tries Lower Price For Vikings Premium

  PaidContent - 2009-09-23

  Will a lower price help the Minneapolis Star Tribune achieve success with a premium sports concept that didn’t work seven years ago? The paper pulled the plug on the pay concept for Access Vikings seven years ago, leaving the name in place but not the pay wall. Earlier this...

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• Tribune To Sell Control Of Cubs, Wrigley Field To Ricketts Family For $845 Million

  PaidContent - 2009-08-21

  After a tortured budding process dating back more than two years, the bankrupt Tribune Co. is selling the Ricketts family 95 percent of the Chicago Cubs and iconic Wrigley Field for about $845 million —pending approval by Major League Baseball and a federal bankruptcy court. The deal, which would...

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• Once-potent Trib unit looks for answers; With parent's status in limbo, Entertainment property soldiers on.(Special Report: NATPE/Syndication)(Tribune Co. (Chicago, Illinois))

  - 2007-01-15

  Byline: LARRY DOBROW Byline: LARRY DOBROW

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• John O'Hurley Signs on as New Host of Perennial Favorite ``Family Feud''; FremantleMedia North America and Tribune Entertainment to Re-Vamp Show for Fall Season

  - 2006-03-28

  SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- FremantleMedia North America, along with Tribune Entertainment announced today that John O'Hurley ("Dancing With The Stars," "Seinfeld") has signed on to host the upcoming season of the company's enduringly popular game show "Family Feud." The Emmy award-winning program originally launched in 1976 and will be re-vamped...

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• 'Idol Rewind' clearances top 80%.(NEWS & COMMENT)(Brief Article)

  - 2006-02-06

  While Fox's new season of American Idol continues to dominate the television landscape, the syndicated version of the show, due out in the fall, looks strong too. Tribune Entertainment TEC says it has cleared weekly hour American Idol Rewin ...

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• New device will give fliers choice of entertainment options.

  - 2004-11-15

  By Mark Skertic, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 15--American Airlines will begin testing a new entertainment offering Monday that packs a cineplex-worth of movies and a shelf-full of books into a 3-pound package. The personal entertainment appliance, or...

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• X marks the lawsuit.(Vidbits)(Tribune Entertainment is suing Marvel Enterprises for breach of contract)(Brief Article)

  - 2003-11-03

  * Tribune Entertainment is suing Marvel Enterprises for $ 100 million for breach of contract in a matter relating to the development of Tribune's Mutant X sci-fi TV series and Fox's X-Men movie. Tribune said Marvel encouraged Tribune to tie in Muta * Tribune...

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• Tribune Entertainment.(Programming)(announces appointments of Ben Cohen and Lee Gonsalves)(Brief Article)

  - 2003-10-13

  At Tribune Entertainment, Los Angeles: BEN COHEN, group supervisor, Mindshare, New York, named account executive, advertiser ... At Tribune Entertainment, Los Angeles: BEN COHEN, group supervisor, Mindshare, New York, named account executive, advertiser sales, and LEE GONSALVES, VP, programming and production, E! Networks, Los...

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• Free Papers Put Youth above Fold; Publications Combat Readership Trends.

  - 2003-08-21

  By Mark Jurkowitz, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 21--Amy Royster, 27, features editor at The Daily Reflector in Greenville, N.C., looked at a city of 61,000 that is home to 20,000 people between the ages of 18 and 24...

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• Tribune Entertainment. (Scene).(announces the departure of Henry Urick as VP of marketing)(Brief Article)

  - 2003-07-21

  Henry Urick has left the VP of marketing position at Tribune Entertainment and will help the TV programming unit establish longorm titles for video release through ... Henry Urick has left the VP of marketing position at Tribune Entertainment and will help the TV...

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