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Analyst: Comcast Could Be Sole NBCU Owner in Four Years

Comcast could be the sole owner of NBC Universal within four years, buying out General Electric Co.’s 49% interest in the joint venture for $17 billion, Citigroup media analyst Jason Bazinet writes in new research note, Multichannel News reports. The…

NATPE Sets Speaker Lineup

Speakers at the upcoming NATPE conference will include Discovery President and CEO David Zaslav, Shine Group Chairman and CEO Elisabeth Murdoch and Tornante CEO Michael Eisner, B&C reports. The conference takes place in Las Vegas from Jan. 25-27. Among the…

Roy Disney, Walt’s Nephew, Dead at 79; Played a Key Role in Eisner’s Departure From Media Company

Roy Disney, nephew of entertainment giant Walt Disney, died today at the age of 79, succumbing to stomach cancer, according to the Huffington Post. Disney was involved in the business operations for The Walt Disney Co., and his behind-the-scenes influence was…

Comcast Rolls Out Its Version of TV Everywhere to 14 Million of Its 24 Million Subs

Comcast Corp. launched its Web TV service for about 14 million of its cable and high-speed Internet subscribers, Multichannel News reports. Dubbed Fancast Xfinity TV, the service makes shows from 27 networks available for free online to most of the…

YouTube Eyeing Subscriptions, Movie Rentals

YouTube may offer subscriptions as a way to entice more companies to license premium TV shows and movies to the site, Google’s vice president of content partnerships, David Eun, told Reuters in an interview. The company wants to attract more…

VP Biden Among Those to Meet Tuesday on Intellectual Theft

Vice President Joe Biden will be among the government officials meeting with the entertainment industry Tuesday at the White House to discuss how to fight theft of intellectual property, the Los Angeles Times reports. Also attending the meeting, the paper…

TVWeek Picks the Internet Site of the Year

Looking back at many of the big stories of the year, from the death of Michael Jackson to the news that Comcast was going to buy NBC to the Tiger Woods post-Thanksgiving night driving incident and subsequent scandal, it’s a…

Gillette Shaves Tiger Off of Spots; Accenture Decides Road to High Performance isn’t Wooded

In two moves that could cost Tiger Woods million of dollars, Accenture said it would part ways with the beleagured golf star, and Gillette said it would limit Woods’ marketing presence. According to the New York Times, "In a telephone…

Preston Padden, Disney’s Top Lobbyist, Takes a New Gig

former ABC-TV network President Preston Padden, currently Disney’s top lobbyist in Washington, has announced that he will retire in January 2011, reports B&C. Padden will become adjunct professor and senior fellow at the Silicon Flatirons Center at the University of Colorado…

New Survey: Guess Which Medium is Teenagers’ Favorite?

A new study of European teens’ media habits shows that what they really like to spend time with is out of sync with what the common wisdom thinks their habits are, the New York Times reports. Contrary to popular opinion,…