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Disney And YouTube Make A Video Deal (NYT)
Two powerful media companies, Disney and YouTube, are betting that a new partnership will help them surmount separate but equally worrisome hurdles as they each strive for greater Web dominance.
Dish Networking (NY Post)
Charlie Ergen is weighing a move to offer live cable channels via the Web, likely under his Blockbuster brand name. Multichannel News: Cox Communications has until Dec. 31 to file an opposition to Dish Network's attempt to secure trademark rights on "TV Everywhere."
Herman Cain Squares Off With Newt Gingrich At GOP Debate In Texas; Blames Journalists For Sexual-Harassment Hoopla (NY Daily News / AP)
Republican presidential contender Herman Cain Saturday vowed to answer no more questions about decade-old sexual-harassment allegations and blamed journalists for the claims that have dogged his campaign. Mediaite: On CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday morning, host Howard Kurtz gave Politico reporter Jonathan Martin a grilling worthy of Bobby Flay over whether the online paper had enough to publish its story on sexual harassment allegations against GOP frontrunner Cain. AdAge / Digital: The most successful candidates will use social-media sharing at every step of their campaigns.

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Murdoch Gave Loyal Lieutenant Rebekah Brooks £1.7M Payoff, Car, And Office (Guardian)
Rebekah Brooks, the former News of the World editor who resigned as chief executive of News International at the height of the phone-hacking scandal, received £1.7 million in cash, the use of a London office, and a chauffeur-driven limousine as part of her severance package from the newspaper group.
Farewell To Andy Rooney (TVNewser)
60 Minutes closed Sunday night's show with a look at the life and work of Andy Rooney. NYT / Media Decoder: "As you may have already heard, our friend and colleague, Andy Rooney, died after a brief illness," 60 Minutescorrespondent Morley Safer said on the newsmagazine Sunday night. Safer then introduced the segment 60 Minutes originally ran Oct. 2, the night Rooney read his last regularly scheduled essay on the broadcast. THR: In his introduction, Safer said Rooney "had the special gift for speaking for every man." He also called Rooney "America's favorite grouch-in-chief."
Roger Ebert Says His Movie-Review Show Will End If He Can't Find Financial Backing (THR)
Roger Ebert says his movie-review show is in danger of ending unless he can raise enough money to keep it going beyond the current season.

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Condé Nast Entertainment Division Expands To Hollywood (WWD / Memo Pad)
Dawn Ostroff's Condé Nast entertainment division is expanding to Hollywood. Ostroff, who said on her very first day last month as Condé Nast's entertainment president that there are "a lot of movie and TV stars" at 4 Times Square, is opening a production office in Los Angeles.
Earthquake Rattles KWTV Studio During Newscast (TVSpy)
"We are having an earthquake here right now," KWTV anchor Ed Murray told viewers shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday from the station's Oklahoma City studio. "Our lights are shaking quite a bit here."
Back In The USA: Ceglia Looking For Items To Help His Facebook Ownership Case (Wellsville Daily Reporter)
Paul Ceglia sounded more like a confident man suing for ownership of Facebook, compared with the man ordered by a judge Wednesday to return from Ireland to produce items for his case.

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NBC Struggles For Its Footing (NYT)
Coming into a new television season, about the only solace for the new management regime at NBC was that the network's primetime fortunes had been so bad for so long, things could not get much worse.
Deepak Chopra And Sanjiv Chopra Land Major Deal With Amazon (GalleyCat)
Deepak Chopra and his brother, Sanjiv Chopra, have sold their memoir to Amazon's New York publishing imprint in a major ($500,000 or higher) deal: Brotherhood: A Tale of Faith, Big Dreams, and the Power of Persistence.
NBCU's Steve Harvey Cleared In More Than 55 Percent Of The U.S. (B&C)
NBC Universal has cleared its new talk show, Steve Harvey, in more than 55 percent of the country for a fall-2012 debut.

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With Newsstand, Apple Finally Does Publishers A Favor (Adweek)
Thanks to Apple's Newsstand, sales of magazines' tablet editions have been soaring. Now comes the real test: Can publishers turn those editions into viable ad vehicles?
Comcast's XfinityTV.com Gets An HTML5 Facelift (GigaOM / NewTeeVee)
Comcast launched an all-new interface to its XfinityTV.com website, providing users quicker access to content and more tools to connect their online viewing with what they watch on TV and on its video-on-demand service.
Netflix Will Become Exclusive Streaming Provider Of Many MGM Films In U.K., Ireland (TechCrunch Europe)
Netflix and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Monday morning announced a multiyear licensing agreement that will make Netflix the exclusive subscription streaming service in the United Kingdom and Ireland for most first-run feature films from the movie studio.

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