RUPERT MURDOCH

For just a moment, stop obsessing about which 10 movies the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who are now in the middle of marking their ballots, will nominate for best picture.

Time Warner Cable and Fox have reached a deal to keep carrying Fox Networks programing after the companies negotiated through New Year's Day to avoid a blackout of TV shows like The Simpsons and college and NFL football games in 13 million U.S. homes.

Time Warner Cable and News Corp's Fox Networks agreed to a brief extension of their current carriage contract on Thursday to avoid a blackout that would have prevented 13 million U.S. homes from seeing TV shows like The Simpsons and college and NFL football games.

Time Warner Cable and News Corp's Fox Networks Group agreed to a brief extension of their current carriage contract late on Thursday to avoid a blackout that would have prevented 13 million U.S. homes from seeing TV shows like The Simpsons and House as well as college and NFL football games.

News Corp would do better in 2010 than the previous year thanks to the strong performance of its cable and film businesses, the international media group's head Rupert Murdoch told an Italian newspaper.

American Idol judge Simon Cowell has decided to quit the top-rated TV talent show when his contract ends in 2010, according to a report in British tabloid The Sun, which would deal a blow to the Fox network.

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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp will spend up to 120 million euros ($172 million) to raise its stake in Sky Deutschland for the second time in a year, sending shares in the ailing German broadcaster soaring.

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Rupert Murdoch, the Chairman and Chief Executive of News Corp., believes that U.S. funding for the distressed newspaper industry would be a detriment to freedom of speech.

“God bless Tiger. This week we got a huge uplift.” Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz told a crowd of investors in New York on Tuesday at the UBS Media and Communications Conference.

Comcast Corp struck a deal to buy a majority stake in NBC Universal from General Electric Co, creating a media superpower that would control not just how television shows and movies are made, but how they are delivered to the home.

Google Inc is not to blame for the news industry's problems but is committed to playing a role in helping struggling publishers survive the transition to the online age, CEO Eric Schmidt said.

Google Inc is not to blame for the news industry's problems but is committed to playing a role in helping struggling publishers survive the transition to the online age, CEO Eric Schmidt said.

Google is attempting to improve relations with media giants with its First Click Free policy that allows publishers to build pay walls around their online content. The search giant will also allow publishers to decide whether they want their sites to show up in Google News, Google Web search, both, or neither.

Google offered publishers a way to attract paying subscribers without having to remove their content from Google News search results, after Rupert Murdoch and others accused it of profiting from their news.

Google is offering news publishers a way to attract paying subscribers without having to remove their content from Google News search results, after some media companies accused it of profiting from their online news.

Reports that News Corp and Microsoft were in talks for an exclusive deal that would exclude Google are overblown, a source close to the situation said on Tuesday.

The growing influence of the Web to distribute news, video and other content, combined with the lingering economic malaise, have left many media executives and investors uncertain about where to make their next bets.

One of News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch's sons sold about $27.6 million of his shares in the media company this week as his investment company purchased a large stake in an Australian radio broadcaster.

Rupert Murdoch has spent months complaining that Google is ruining the newspaper business, and now he wants to do something about it. But, his proposal is a gamble, and one that could hurt News Corp instead of helping it.