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Sep. 7, 2010 at 12:52 p.m.
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Filed under: Entertainment, Media, TV

Martha Stewart to lead Hallmark Ch. makeover

By Los Angeles Times

Martha Stewart has a knack for transforming dated rooms into design showpieces. Now she’s undertaking another major renovation: the Hallmark Channel.

Beginning Monday, Stewart will provide eight hours of programming each weekday as part of an ambitious revamp of the Hallmark Channel. After pinning its fortunes on the broad appeal of sentimental made-for-TV movies and reruns of such classic shows as “The Golden Girls” and “Little House on the Prairie,” Hallmark plans to focus on home and lifestyle improvement and cooking shows.

Sep. 7, 2010 at 9:00 a.m.
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Google to start TV service in U.S. this fall

By Reuters

Google will launch its new service to bring the Web to TV screens in the United States this autumn and worldwide next year, its chief executive said, as it extends its reach from the desktop to the living room. Get the full story »

Sep. 1, 2010 at 1:12 p.m.
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Filed under: Bankruptcy, Media, Newspapers, Radio, TV

Judge names mediator in Tribune Co. bankruptcy

By Michael Oneal

The judge in Tribune Co.’s stalemated bankruptcy case appointed a mediator Wednesday to try to forge a settlement of legal claims stemming from media company’s disastrous 2007 leveraged buyout.

The move comes after a reorganization plan previously filed by Tribune Co. management unraveled in the wake of an independent examiner’s report that supported many of the claims. Get the full story »

Aug. 31, 2010 at 10:37 a.m.
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Filed under: Bankruptcy, Media, Radio, TV

Tribune Co. committee to oversee reorganization

By Michael Oneal

The board of directors of bankrupt Tribune Co. formed a special committee to oversee the media company’s contentious reorganization process and to manage any legal claims arising from its 2007 leveraged buyout.

Sources said the step is an effort to remove conflicts of interest from the debtor’s decision making process since some Tribune Co. board members and officers may be the target of buyout-related claims. Get the full story »

Aug. 30, 2010 at 3:08 p.m.
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Filed under: Entertainment, Media, TV

Tribune Co. to launch digital channel Antenna TV

By Phil Rosenthal

Tribune Co., following the lead of WCIU-Ch. 26 parent Weigel Broadcasting, is launching a service supplying digital subchannel programming for local TV stations. Antenna TV, beginning Jan. 3, will deliver a round-the-clock slate of vintage TV series reruns and movies from Sony and DLT Entertainment to a secondary digital channel of WGN-Ch. 9 and those of other Tribune Co. stations.

Aug. 27, 2010 at 8:05 p.m.
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Filed under: Bankruptcy, Media, Radio, TV

Tribune Co. delays filing amendments to bankruptcy plan

By Tribune staff report

Tribune Co. delayed filing anticipated amendments to its bankruptcy restructuring plan Friday, citing ongoing negotiations with creditors.

A week ago, in the wake of collapsed talks toward a new settlement in the case, Tribune Co. lawyers told a Delaware bankruptcy judge that the company would file plan amendments by Friday and provide suggestions for new schedule for voting and confirmation hearings on the revised plan. Get the full story »

Aug. 27, 2010 at 6:46 a.m.
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Filed under: Media, Movies, TV, Video

Blockbuster preparing to file bankruptcy

By Tribune newspapers

A customer looks at films at a Blockbuster Video store in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)

After dominating the home video rental business for more than a decade and struggling to survive in recent years against upstarts Netflix and Redbox, Blockbuster Inc. is preparing to file for bankruptcy next month, according to people who have been briefed on the matter.

Executives from Blockbuster and its senior debt holders last week held meetings with the six major movie studios to discuss their intention to enter a “pre-planned” bankruptcy in mid-September, said several people familiar with the situation who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of ongoing talks. Get the full story »

Aug. 26, 2010 at 2:42 p.m.
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Filed under: Advertising/Marketing, Internet, Media, Radio, Sports, TV

ESPN, AOL suspend Jay Mariotti after arrest

By Tower Ticker

Former Chicago Sun-Times star sports columnist Jay Mariotti, has not spoken publicly about his weekend arrest in Los Angeles on suspicion of felony domestic assault. And it doesn’t appear he will be saying much of anything on his usual turf, ESPN or AOL’s Fanhouse site, at least for a while.

Mariotti will be sidelined next week from his regular role as panelist on ESPN’s “Around the Horn,” perhaps longer, it was learned Thursday. AOL Fanhouse, for which Mariotti has been a columnist since January 2009, has suspended him pending its own investigation.

Aug. 26, 2010 at 2:01 p.m.
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Filed under: Media, Movies, TV, Video

Netflix releases long-awaited iPhone app

By CNN

Netflix iPhone app. (Netflix photo)

Netflix unveiled its long-awaited app for the iPhone on Thursday, sending the company’s shares almost 2 percent higher.

The free app lets Netflix members stream TV episodes and movies to their Apple iPhone or iPod Touch for no additional cost. Get the full story »

Aug. 26, 2010 at 8:14 a.m.
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Soldier Field to host Oprah’s last show?

From the Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago's Soldier Field. (Tribune, file)

Oprah Winfrey said in a TV Guide interview that she is considering holding her final show on network television at Chicago’s Soldier Field, but said it has not been locked in. “You can never count on Chicago weather.” Get the full story>>

Aug. 25, 2010 at 5:45 p.m.
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Filed under: Bankruptcy, Entertainment, Investing, Management, Media, Newspapers, Radio, TV, Updated

Will Eisner be Tribune Co.’s next chairman?

By Tribune newspapers

Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner on July 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

By Dawn C. Chmielewski, Michael Oneal and Sallie Hofmeister

Former Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner is in discussions that could lead to his return to the media spotlight — as chairman of the now-bankrupt Tribune Co.

The Chicago-based media company’s largest creditors are having preliminary conversations with prospective candidates who could operate Tribune Co. once it emerges from bankruptcy, according to several people with knowledge of the situation.

Eisner, who has been dabbling in the digital world as an investor since stepping down from Disney in 2005, is among the candidates under consideration to replace Chicago real estate magnate Sam Zell as chairman of the reorganized company. Get the full story »

Aug. 24, 2010 at 4:47 p.m.
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Filed under: Computers, Entertainment, Internet, Media, TV, Technology, Video, Wireless

Apple in talks with media giants to rent TV shows

By Reuters

Apple is in talks with several media conglomerates to allow consumers to rent TV shows through iTunes according to a report in Bloomberg Tuesday, which cited three unnamed sources familiar with the situation.

Apple is in serious discussions with News Corp. to allow viewers to rent programming from its Fox network for 48 hours, the report said, adding that Walt Disney and CBS are in talks with Apple as well.

Representatives from Apple, Walt Disney, News Corp. and CBS declined to comment. Get the full story »

Aug. 24, 2010 at 6:28 a.m.
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Filed under: Consumer electronics, Media, TV

Toshiba developing 3-D TVs that won’t require glasses

By Associated Press

Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp. said Tuesday it is developing technology for a 3-D television that won’t require viewers to wear special glasses. Toshiba’s new TVs will be a world first in offering glasses-free 3-D, according to the nationally circulated Yomiuri. Get the full story »

Aug. 19, 2010 at 2:38 p.m.
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Blagojevich to make the talk-show rounds

By Tower Ticker

Add Meredith Vieira on “Today,” Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show” and local radio interviews with WVON-AM’s Cliff Kelley WLS-AM’s Don and Roma Wade to the first wave of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s renewed media offensive.

No sooner did “Fox News Sunday” announce that it would have Blagojevich’s first post-trial Sunday-morning news show interview this weekend than the rest of his dance card filled in.

Aug. 18, 2010 at 10:56 a.m.
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Susan Carlson to co-anchor WBBM-Ch. 2 news

By Phil Rosenthal

WBBM-Ch. 2 said Wednesday it plans to pair Susan Carlson as co-anchor with enigmatic New York import Steve Bartelstein on the early morning news show that replaces the moribund, little-watched “Monsters & Money in the Morning,” its seven-month talk and news-ish experiment that ends later this month.

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