 Thursday, July 3, 2008
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CYNOPSIS DIGITAL - TODAY'S TOP STORY: This deal was supposed to be
kaput but the market wants what the market wants. Microsoft has been
talking to some major media players this week including Time Warner and News
Corp. as it prepares to take another pass at Yahoo, reports the Wall
Street Journal. This time Microsoft would be bidding only for its search
business and partners would buy the rest, effectively breaking up Yahoo into pieces.
Yahoo has also circled back to Time Warner regarding a potential merger with AOL.
Meanwhile The Justice Department opened a formal antitrust inquiry into Yahoo's
search outsourcing deal with Google and all indications are they plan to
take a hard look at the deal, per The Washington Post. Full edition: CYN DIGITAL. CYNOPSIS KIDS - TODAY'S TOP STORY: This week an Ohio district court set July 7, as in this Monday, as the expiration date for a temporary restraining order obtained by American Greetings to block DIC Entertainment from being acquired by Cookie Jar Entertainment, per Thomson Financial News. The Cookie Jar and DIC $87.6 million merger was announced on June 20. The court also set a preliminary hearing for July 24-25 to decide whether to provide American Greetings with another injunction to stop DIC from exploiting the Strawberry Shortcake property while the dispute is resolved. American Greetings maintains that the sale of DIC would violate its rights as the owner of the Strawberry Shortcake brand, which DIC manages for them. Full edition: CYN KIDS. CYNOPSIS INTERNATIONAL - TODAY'S TOP STORY: Oprah's Big Give is one of several shows sold as part of recent FremantleMedia Enterprises deals covering over 700 hours of programming. Modeling competition She's Got the Look sold 108 hours in 18 territories, including the U.K., France, Italy, Portugal, New Zealand and Thailand. In the Netherlands, SBS took both tape and format rights. Oprah's Big Give sold 160+ hours to Kanal 5 in Sweden, Ten in Australia, NBC/Hallmark in Asia (pan regional) and SBS in The Netherlands (tape and format rights). Eleven territories picked up 66 hours of DEA, including RTL Digital in Germany and BSkyB in the U.K. RTL and Italy's Raisat were also in a buying spree for the Travel Channel catalog (Anthony Bordain's No Reservations, Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods and Sam Brown's Passport to China) for a total of 120 hours to 6 territories. Last, but not least, Australian drama Satisfaction got some 180 hours sold in 18 territories such as SIC in Portugal and SBS. Full edition: CYN INTERNATIONAL.
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Good morning. It's Thursday, July 3, 2008, and this is your first early morning briefing. Cablevision Systems Corp. will launch 15 networks in hi-def starting July 28, including hi-def versions of Nickelodeon, Discovery Channel, AMC, FX ,... (Click here to read the full newsletter.)
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