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Cable TV ups profits at big media companies

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Comcast Corp, News Corp and Time Warner Inc reported stronger quarterly results on Wednesday, confirming it pays to have a solid lineup of cable networks -- at least while advertisers keep spending.
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Sony Forecasts 4th Straight Loss, Cuts TV Sales

Sony Corp said it is headed for its fourth straight annual net loss, instead of a profit it forecast earlier, as Thai floods disrupted camera production, adding to losses from a soaring yen and price slides in its TVs and PCs in the United States and Europe.
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Sony forecasts fourth straight loss, cuts TV sales

Sony Corp said it is headed for its fourth straight annual net loss, instead of a profit it forecast earlier, as Thai floods disrupted camera production, adding to losses from a soaring yen and price slides in its TVs and PCs in the United States and Europe.
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Kim Kardashian Denies Profiting from TV Wedding

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian on Tuesday dismissed reports that she profited from her televised wedding to Kris Humphries, only one day after filing for divorce from the basketball player.
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Don Mischer to receive Producers Guild TV award

A month before he directs and co-produces his second Academy Awards show, Don Mischer will receive an honor of his own at one of the key Oscar precursor shows, the Producers Guild of America's 23rd annual Producers Guild Awards.
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Sony starts moves to overhaul struggling TV biz

Consumer electronics giant Sony Corp said on Monday it will split its television business into three divisions to make operations more accountable as part of efforts to turn around the loss-making business.
Google employees O'Malley and Ferrate utilize a Google TV display at the Google I/O Developers Conference in the Moscone Center in San Francisco

Google TV Finally Gets Upgrade

Google TV has been out of the spotlight for quite some time, but there is finally word that the platform will be making a major upgrade to Android 3.1. Plus, Google is planning to shift focus to more content-discovery features in this upgrade.
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Google takes another shot at the TV market

Google Inc is making another push to bring its Web savvy to television sets, hoping to tap into a vast new market despite consumers' lukewarm reaction to one of its initial offerings.
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Moammar Gadhafi Dead: Secret Funeral Video Shows Ceremony and Open Coffin (VIDEO)

Footage aired by the Dubai-based Al Alaan news channel claims to show the funeral of Libyan dictactor Moammar Gadhafi, his son Mutassim and his national security advisor, Abu Bakr Yunis. According to a Misrata Military Council official, Gadhafi's personal cleric, Sheikh Kahled Tantoush, is shown reciting an Islamic funeral prayer, with relatives of Gadhafi and other officials in attendance.
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Sharp cuts outlook as TV sales slide

Sharp Corp cut its full-year operating profit forecast by 12 percent, hit by sliding domestic television sales but the cut was not as bad as the market had feared.
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Apple TV: Steve Jobs' Final Gift?

Biographer Walter Isaacson's book documenting Steve Jobs' life and works was published this Monday. In it, one little known fact has the tech world wondering about final project Jobs worked on before he died.
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TV Newsman Andy Rooney Hospitalized

Veteran television commentator Andy Rooney, who earlier this month at age 92 took his final bow on the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes, has been hospitalized due to complications from surgery, the network said on Tuesday.
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Poor folk making a TV comeback

What with the usual assortment of doctors, lawyers, ad executives, jingle writers and police showing up on your TV set, you would hardly believe that more than 14 million Americans are out of work.
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Is Apple Finally Ready for a TV?

The long-awaited biography, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, was made available Monday. Isaacson briefly mentions that Jobs wanted to create a television with a simple user interface, rescuing consumers from multiple confusing remotes.
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Netflix to Hit UK, Ireland in 2012

After a slew of rumors circulated in the web for some time, since 2010, Netfix has officially announced its expansion to the UK and Ireland early 2012.

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