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Comcast drops Jennifer Lopez’s Fuse channel

NEW YORK (UPI) -- Comcast has decided to drop the Fuse network, owned in part by Jennifer Lopez, from its lineup of cable channels. "We regularly evaluate our channel lineups and sometimes make changes to ensure we're offering customers a wide variety of the content that they want to see at the best value," Comcast said in a statement. "In this case, much of the content carried by Fuse is similar to content that is also available on other networks. […]

todayJanuary 2, 2019 62

Robin Thicke Pharrell Williams Blurred Lines infringement

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Thicke, Williams ordered to pay $5 million for infringement

LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- A Federal judge in California ordered a final judgement of nearly $5 million to the family of Marvin Gaye for Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams' copyright infringement in their song "Blurred Lines." District Judge John A. Kronstadt said the two artists must jointly pay Gaye's family damages of $2.9 million. Separately, Thicke must pay $1.7 million and More Water From Nazareth Publishing -- Williams' publishing company -- must pay $357,631. The final judgment, issued Monday, was […]

todayDecember 13, 2018 38

Nexstar Tribune Media WGN America

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Sources: Nexstar acquires Tribune Media in $4.1 billion deal

IRVING, Tex./CHICAGO (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Chicago-based Tribune Media Company has reached an agreement Sunday with Irving, Tex.-based Nexstar Media Group Inc. in an acquisition costing roughly $4.1 billion, according to sources knowledgeable of the matter. This deal and merger between the two companies will create the largest regional U.S. TV station operator. Tribune Media owns 45 television stations including flagship station WGN and cable network WGN America, 11 digital assets under the Tribune Entertainment banner and the WGN radio station […]

todayDecember 2, 2018 33

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EDITORIAL: It’s time to establish a Libertarian media conglomerate

(Heartland Newsfeed) -- 2018 made my fifth election cycle that I've voted in, but I have become incredibly disgusted with the biased coverage by the mainstream media which are either biased to the left or biased to the right. While Libertarian candidates getting more media coverage than in 2014 or 2016, the mainstream media still chooses to paint the candidates in a negative light and even go as far as setting ridiculous requirements for debate inclusion. While some major newspapers […]

todayNovember 11, 2018 107

Entertainment

Here’s why Carl wasn’t in Rick’s final Walking Dead episode (spoilers!)

For once, it wasn't because of scheduling. By Laura Prudom This interview contains spoilers for The Walking Dead Season 9, episode 5, "What Comes After." Although Rick didn't die in Andrew Lincoln's final episode of The Walking Dead, our hero was visited by several "ghosts" from his past while attempting to outrun a herd of walkers and make it back to his family: Jon Bernthal's Shane, Scott Wilson's Hershel, and Sonequa Martin-Green's Sasha - each of whom gave our bleeding hero […]

todayNovember 10, 2018 40

Business & Lifestyle

Telltale Games shutters (partially), fate of several game series unknown

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Telltale Games, the studio behind several highly-acclaimed episodic adventure games under a range of popular licenses, such as The Walking Dead and Batman, has been plagued with another wave of layoffs which took place over the weekend. A report from Gamasutra reveals that Telltale laid off all but 25 employees of their 250-member staff, who will remain with the company to finish the remaining episodes of The Walking Dead: The Final Season. It was […]

todaySeptember 25, 2018 46

Business & Lifestyle

Comcast wins Sky auction with $40 billion bid, stock tanks early

PHILADELPHIA/LONDON (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Comcast shares fell 6 percent, despite falling as low as 8 percent, Monday following the announcement that they had won the bidding war for British media giant Sky, redrawing the global media landscape. Comcast was in a bidding battle with 21st Century Fox and Disney, ending with a $40.13 billion final bid, amounting to $22.66 per share compared to the Fox/Disney bid at $20.55 per share when the three companies were inquired of their best offer […]

todaySeptember 24, 2018 54

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The 21st Money Newsletter

Crypto News, Analysis, Forecasts, ICOs and Events for the week ending 9/21/2018   Crypto News & Analysis   The government of Switzerland has announced that it plans to tokenize their national currency, the Swiss Franc. A cryptocurrency that is backed by a fiat currency is referred to as a stablecoin. The perception is that a tokenized fiat currency is less volatile in price swings than its purely digital counterpart. The stablecoin proposed by Switzerland will not be the first of […]

todaySeptember 22, 2018 44

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Rare Buddy Holly guitar signed by music icons up for auction

(Heartland Newsfeed) -- The stunning guitar is “its own Rock N' Roll museum,” boasts the Heritage Auctions website. The rare acoustic guitar is handcrafted in the same design as Buddy Holly’s Gibson J-45, which he used to compose many of his best-known songs. But that’s not the only reason that makes this sunburst guitar so special. Scrawled in silver paint on the body of the “Buddy Holly Limited Edition” acoustic guitar are dozens of signatures from some of music’s best-known icons, […]

todayAugust 21, 2018 41

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