Tim Arango
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FOLEY MADE HOLLYWOOD ROUNDS - AND SAID COME FLY WITH ME
October 8, 2006 | 4:00amIT wasn't just teenage pages Mark Foley cozied up to. When he wasn't sending explicit text messages to House pages, the now-disgraced congressman put his efforts into courting the entertainment...
AD $$ ON DECK FOR FLOURISHING SNY, METS
October 6, 2006 | 4:00amTalk about good timing. In what amounts to rare cooperation between the gods governing both baseball and television, the Mets launched their television network, SportsNet New York, the same year...
BOARD TURMOIL SHAKES XM
October 5, 2006 | 4:00amSatellite radio rivals XM and Sirius both posted solid gains in subscribers yesterday - but not enough to assure jittery investors that more stellar growth is on the way. XM...
HALLMARK WOOS SCHLEIFF
October 3, 2006 | 4:00amHenry Schleiff, the Manhattan media world fixture and former Court TV boss, is said to be close to a deal to take over management of the Hallmark Channel. Schleiff, who...
TROUBLE BREWING - SONYBMG CALM IS PRELUDE TO ANOTHER STORM
October 1, 2006 | 4:00amTHE calm that has pervaded the corridors of SonyBMG since the irascible executive duo of Donnie Ienner and Michele Anthony were let go in June is about to expire. About...
ZUCKER PUNCH - NBC'S NO. 2 BECOMES HEIR APPARENTLY-NOT
September 29, 2006 | 4:00amJeff Immelt wants to see other people - including a casual encounter with Tom Freston - before he makes a commitment to Jeff Zucker. The NBC Universal wunderkind, who rose...
SUMNER PAY CUT; VIACOM CHIEF'S $ LINKED TO STOCK
September 26, 2006 | 4:00amSumner Redstone now has even more reason to lounge around his den, surrounded by his tanks of exotic fish, and obsess about Viacom's share price. Yesterday Viacom said it would...
LOUIE WASN'T 'N SYNC; LAWSUIT BACKFIRES
September 24, 2006 | 4:00amLOU Pearlman picked the wrong guy to sue. Pearlman, the often-scrutinized talent promoter credited with discovering 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys, is the subject of a just-released book that...
RETAIL-IATION - WAL-MART WARNS STUDIOS OVER DVD DOWNLOADS
September 22, 2006 | 4:00amWorried about its massive DVD sales, retail behemoth Wal-Mart has told some of Hollywood's biggest players it will retaliate against them for selling movies on Apple's iTunes. Last year when...
AMAZON AND TIVO GET IN MOVIE BIZ
September 22, 2006 | 4:00amApple has made clear its ambition of taking over the living room. Now Amazon is looking for a seat on the couch. Amazon, the giant online retailer that recently launched...
RETAIL BLACKMAIL - WAL-MART WARNS STUDIOS OVER DVD DOWNLOADS
September 22, 2006 | 4:00amWorried about its massive DVD sales, retail behemoth Wal-Mart has told some of Hollywood's biggest players it will retaliate against them for selling movies on Apple's iTunes. Last year when...
MARTHA CHANGES HER COLORS, SELLS AT LOWE'S
September 21, 2006 | 4:00amMartha Stewart Living Omnimedia is readying a big push to sell a variety of home-improvement goods at Lowe's, the large home goods chain. Yesterday the company said it would begin...
VIDEO 'FOE'PLAY - WARNER, YOUTUBE INK DEAL
September 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe music industry can't decide whether YouTube, the online video phenomenon, is a blatant copyright stealer a la Napster or an upstart Internet company with vast commercial potential. Yesterday, Warner...
ADVERTISING WEAK; MAD AVE. MIFFED OVER MUDDLED INDUSTRY EVENT
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amMADISON Avenue is grumbling about the price tag to gain entrée to Advertising Week, a series of luncheons, panels and events that aspires to be the ad industry equivalent of...
LEONSIS GOES OFFLINE - AGAIN
September 16, 2006 | 4:00amOnce again Ted Leonsis says he is stepping aside at America Online. Leonsis, the longtime AOL executive who has numerous other business interests, including ownership of the NHL's Washington Capitals,...
LET 'EM EAT CAKE - TIMES BIGS THROW MISERLY $2M AT STAFF BONUS POOL
September 15, 2006 | 4:00amIn a move aimed at boosting morale within the New York Times newsroom, Chairman Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. and his cousin, Vice Chairman Michael Golden, will forgo about $2 million...
TARGET: YOUTUBE - UNIVERSAL MUSIC WARNS WEB VIDEO SWAPPER
September 14, 2006 | 4:00amUniversal Music chief Doug Morris launched a loud salvo at YouTube, warning the upstart Internet firm that it could come into the legal crosshairs of the world's largest music company....
LIONS GATE PUTS BITE ON TAKEOVER TARGET
September 13, 2006 | 4:00amA long-simmering Hollywood proxy battle got uglier yesterday when movie studio Lions Gate bashed takeover target Image Entertainment for a variety of offenses and asked shareholders to boot out the...
LIONS GATE ROARS AT IMAGE
September 13, 2006 | 4:00amA long-simmering Hollywood proxy battle got uglier yesterday when movie studio Lions Gate bashed takeover target Image Entertainment for a variety of offenses and asked shareholders to boot out the...
SLEUTHING SUMNER SIDEKICK; DEEP-THROAT DOOLEY; SUMNER SIDEKICK MAY HAVE PULLED INSIDE JOB
September 10, 2006 | 4:00amTOM Dooley has a unique claim to fame: He's been associated with media giant Viacom even longer than Sumner Redstone. He may also be the media world's own "deep throat."...