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Comedy Central said it will soon start streaming full episodes of The Daily Show, Colbert Report and South Park. As you might imagine, this raises some eyebrows with cable companies, in this case, Time Warner. “They can’t have it both ways,” said a Time Warner spokesperson. “If they put content they ask cable companies to pay for online for free, they are making it less valuable and we should be expected to pay less for it.”
9 comments May 30th, 2008
NBCU has unofficially won the bid for the Weather Channel at $3.5 billion, according to NewsBlues. That’s well under the $5 billion that Landmark had hoped to earn. NBCU was part of a consortium that included Blackstone Group and Bain Capital. The offer of $3.5 billion, roughly half of which, or $1.8 billion, is equity, according to Reuters. Blackstone’s GSO Capital is also putting in $600 million. The future of WeatherPlus is the big question now.
8 comments May 30th, 2008
I just set up a Twitter account for our news site - and am using Twitterfeed to plug our RSS feed into it. We’ve just started to collect followers and I’ve put in some subtle on-site promotion. Anyone have best practices or tips?
29 comments May 30th, 2008
