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   HBO to Netflix: Buy Your Own Darn Discs!

   1:37 pm 1/5/2012

   • by Paul Bond

   The premium channel tells the streaming and DVD-by-mail company — which has increasingly been viewed as a competitor — that it will no longer supply them discounted product.Read more

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   India's Richest Man in Talks to Buy Stake in Media Conglomerate Network18 (Report)

   7:14 am 12/21/2011

   • by Georg Szalai

   

A push by Reliance Industries head Mukesh Ambani could further his feud with brother Anil who runs Reliance Group, a partner of some Hollywood players.Read more

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   Wall Street Weighs in on Netflix Deal Chatter

   7:05 am 12/13/2011

   • by Georg Szalai

   "Netflix could be a prime target for any sort of M&A," including deals involving entertainment companies, says Miller Tabak analyst David Joyce, while others caution that bankers are simply encouraging acquisition talk.Read more

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   Endemol Shareholders, Lenders Remain 'Cool' on Time Warner $1.3 Billion Bid (Sources)

   4:01 am 12/13/2011

   • by Mimi Turner

   Time Warner’s revised all-cash offer isn’t getting “traction,” sources close to the negotiations say.Read more

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   Time Warner Revises $1.3 Billion Bid for Endemol to All-Cash Offer

   5:07 am 12/12/2011

   • by Georg Szalai

   Ahead of the reality TV powerhouse's planned debt restructuring, the entertainment conglomerate sweetens its bid, which originally included debt. Read more

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   3 Take-Aways From the UBS Media Investor Conference

   11:18 am 12/8/2011

   • by Georg Szalai

   The year's last major platform for entertainment industry moguls to address Wall Street featured talk about ad trends, Netflix and how best to use companies' cash piles.Read more

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   Netflix's Reed Hastings Calls HBO Go His Primary Competition

   2:48 pm 12/6/2011

   • by Paul Bond

   At a packed presentation in New York, the CEO jokes that he's the object of "pity" for recent missteps and predicts that, in a decade, half of all TV viewing in the country will come through Internet streaming. Read more

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   Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes: 'Netflix Is Our Friend'

   10:22 am 12/6/2011

   • by Georg Szalai

   With other industry moguls in the audience, he also tells an annual UBS investor conference that advertising trends in the first quarter of 2012 feel stronger than in the current fourth quarter. Read more

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   UBS Media Conference Kicks off With Deals Pitch, Ad Forecasts



   5:39 am 12/5/2011

   • by Georg Szalai

   "We're living through a hinge of history," UBS banker Aryeh Bourkoff says about the fast-changing industry and argues that it could be ripe for some transformative deals.

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    Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Sell Wireless Spectrum to Verizon for $3.6 Billion

    6:06 am 12/2/2011

    • by Georg Szalai

    The arrangement will reap Comcast $2.3 billion, with the deal partners also striking agreements that will see the cable firms and the telecom giant sell each other's products.Read more

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