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...Signifies The Commish, Sinbad, MSNBC...
...YORK: Cable TV's own War of the Roses ended today with a deal between TIME Warner Cable and Fox News that a relieved Rudy Giuliani called "a win-win situation for everyone involved." Fox News will get to take on CNN and MSNBC in New York City, the nation's premier media market, plus access to 65 percent of the TIME Warner systems. In return, Fox will eventually allow TIME Warner to broadcast its channels across the Fox international satellite television network, giving the media conglomerate a slice of some overseas markets it currently doesn't reach. Giuliani...
...unresponsive that staff members began faxing reporters his deposition, as if to say, "This is what we were hoping he would say if he hadn't wimped out in front of the cameras." By the third day, so much time had been spent learning so little that CNN and MSNBC packed their cameras away, and there were plenty of empty seats in the spectators' gallery...
...always been beset with problems. Recently, for instance, when Microsoft began backing a ratings standard known as RSACI and started including the filter as part of its browser, Internet Explorer, the company quickly found that the "solution" could keep large numbers of viewers away from its news site, MSNBC. Microsoft quietly removed the rating. The problem should have been foreseen. News, after all, frequently covers violent, adult-oriented subjects, which puts many news stories into the same verboten range as porn. While RSACI officials have proposed offering a news exemption, it's hard to see how that could work. Readers...
...does go on sale, Gates may have some competition on his hands. Seagram, owner of Universal Studios, recently dumped a large chunk of Time Warner and has reportedly expressed interest in CBS. In a classic non denial-denial, Microsoft said that such a takeover might endanger its $200 million MSNBC network partnership NBC. Let's see: endanger a dollar to capture...