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• Turner Hives Off Its Online Sports Servcie Provider PlayOn; New Company Gets Funding

  Content Next - 2008-12-10

  Turner, part of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), which has surprisingly been scaling back some of its original online efforts, has now sold off its online sports site services provider PlayOn Sports to a new Atlanta-based company called 2080 Media. The company is focused on production and distribution of broadband...

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• Conduit-based regulation of speech.

  - 2005-04-01

  ABSTRACT Architecture is destiny. As much as information today determines the contemporary wealth of nations, the physical world retains its relevance. Architecture affects crime rates, arguably even collegiality among professors. The interplay between the physical and the ethereal likewise shapes the constitutional doctrine...

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• Media mogul Ted Turner to become star on Hollywood sidewalk

  - 2004-04-07

  LOS ANGELES AFP ? Hollywood was poised to walk all over US media mogul Ted Turner when he is immortalised with his own star on Tinseltown's Walk of Fame. The billionaire founder of Cable News Network CNN television, will join the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin and Bob...

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• Hispanic Audience Catches Attention of Cable Networks.

  - 2003-11-12

  By Caroline Wilbert, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 12--The company behind Food Network and Home & Garden Television is researching a decorating, cooking and gardening channel targeted at Latinos. E.W. Scripps Co., which has been testing a...

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• Upfront looks like buyers' market.

  - 2002-05-06

  While many participants see the 2002-03 upfront shaping up as the second straight buyers' market -- after years of being a sellers' market -- there seems to be little agreement on what to expect beyond that. Historically, upfronts have served as...

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• Research Guru Sieber leaves nest at Turner: data from set-tops will lead to complications, he predicts

  - 2002-01-07

  The retirement of Turner research executive Bob Sieber--one of cable's pioneering executives in the realm of audience measurement and testing--marks what one cable executive and former colleague calls "the end of an era for cable" and, in several respects, for the Turner Broadcasting System. Sieber announced late last month...

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• Exorcist Suit Haunts Turner

  - 2001-05-28

  In the latest "corporate synergy" legal action, director William Friedkin and author William Blatty sued Turner Broadcasting System Inc. alleging that cable rights to their movie The Exorcist were sold at a cut rate. The action, alleging self-dealing among units of AOL Time Warner, was filed last week in...

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• Ted Turner Is Now Adviser to His Atlanta-Based Media Empire.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2001-01-17

  Jan. 18--ATLANTA--Their dashing rascal and protector isn't the boss anymore. Ted Turner, 62 and rich as Midas despite all his efforts to give his money away, is slipping further away from the Atlanta-based media empire he built and its 10,000 employees. ...

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• CNN's Mitchell May Head PBS.(Brief Article)

  - 2000-02-07

  ATLANTA -- Pat Mitchell, a longtime top programming executive at Turner Broadcasting System Inc., could be named president of the Public Broadcasting Service this week, according to published reports. Mitchell, president of CNN Productions, would replace Ervin Duggan, who resigned from...

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• The industry used to produce films, TV programmes, books and music. Now it makes brands.(entertainment)

  - 1998-11-21

  The motion picture industry is successfully exploiting the brands and merchandise of characters and ideas that it owns. Entertainment companies that own distribution, production and licensing rights to their brands are able to build a circle in which the ideas of distribution and manufactuing blend together. Subsidiary companies that do...

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