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  • May 2008

    • IAC, Liberty Make Peace Over Spin-Offs

      Wall Street Journal  |  May 14, 08 8:48 AM CDT

      IAC, Liberty Make Peace Over Spin-Offs

      (Newser) - The months-long feud between media barons John Malone and Barry Diller over IAC spin-offs has ended amicably, the Wall Street Journal reports. Malone's Liberty Media, the majority shareholder in IAC, will drop its opposition to Diller's plans to divide IAC/Interactive Corp into five separate entities. Liberty will have the right to nominate up to 20% of the directors in the new companies. More »

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      Barry Diller  • John Malone  • Liberty Media  • Ticketmaster  • restructuring  • IAC/InterActiveCorp  • media conglomerates

  • December 2007

    • Time Warner Focus Turns to Possible Breakup

      Bloomberg  |  Dec 28, 07 10:19 AM CST

      Time Warner Focus Turns to Possible Breakup

      (Newser) - What do you do when you take over the world’s biggest media company? If you’re new Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes, you probably sharpen some knives. Bewkes may soon spin off AOL as well as the conglomerate’s cable and magazine divisions, Bloomberg reports. “There’s nothing special necessarily about being the biggest,” argues one expert who manages 11.3 million Time Warner shares. More »

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      movie  • mergers and acquisitions  • AOL  • Time Warner  • Jeffrey Bewkes  • media conglomerates

    • FCC Angers All Sides With New Media Rules

      Wall Street Journal  |  Dec 18, 07 7:05 AM CST

      FCC Angers All Sides With New Media Rules

      (Newser) - The FCC is set to push through new rules on media ownership today, to the consternation of everyone from telecoms to free-speech advocates, writes the Wall Street Journal . The commission will introduce two new regulations: one will allow media companies to buy both newspapers and television stations in the top 20 markets, and the other will limit the market shares of any single cable companies to 30% of the market. More »

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      FCC  • Kevin Martin  • media conglomerates  • media cross ownership

  • November 2007

    • Writers March on Wall Street

      Associated Press  |  Nov 14, 07 2:49 AM CST

      Writers March on Wall Street

      (Newser) - Striking writers waving banners marched on Wall Street to complain that the nation's media giants aren't sharing the wealth from online content. The Writers Guild of America targeted CBS, Disney, Viacom Inc., which owns Comedy Central and MTV; News Corp., owner of the Fox TV and film studios, and others More »

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      Internet  • Hollywood writers' strike  • Writers Guild of America  • media conglomerates  • residuals

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