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Zinio's magazine reading app has been around for a dozen years. But a new version, exclusively for Nokia's Lumia Windows Phone 8, makes the most of the phone's capabilities.
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Next Gen Content Creation & Music Delivery
Posted By: Julia Boorstin
There's a rumor going around the web that GE's NBC Universal (GE is the parent company of CNBC) is going to take interactive television to the next level. The idea is that after watching a show like friends you could go onto NBC.com to vote on what should happen in the next show.
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Sweeps; Banks Hunger For Hollywood; DreamWorks Nixes U.K. Deal
Posted By: Julia Boorstin
It's Feb. 1, and the February sweeps period has officially started. Fox always gets a boost this time of year from American Idol, but the network isn't sitting on its laurels. It's counting on one of its new shows to bolster the sweeps period -- a game show, "Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader?". I'm not kidding ...
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Technology Takes Center Stage at Music Festival
Posted By: Julia Boorstin
Austin's a renowned live music mecca, which is no doubt why it became the home to South by Southwest (SXSW) the annual indie music festival. But it's not just where indie bands come to be discovered and hipster kids come to rock out, it's also the destination for music industry folks to sort out the future of a challenged business. Appropriately for the industry transformed by the ability to download songs over the internet, the music fest is preceded by an Interactive festival.
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ShoWest: Big Movie Biz Event
Posted By: Julia Boorstin
Every year the movie theater companies and movie studios come together to go over the upcoming slate of films and figure out how to get more people buying movie tickets, their mutual goal. With global box office up 11% in 2006, the mood was positive. And the big sequels coming out this spring and summer -- Shrek, Pirates, Spiderman, Harry Potter -- are sparking confidence that 2007 will be the biggest box office yet, more than $10 billion -- yes BILLION -- domestic. But there are still plenty of issues plaguing the industry.
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William Morris, Porn as leading Indicator, and "Next New Networks"
Posted By: Julia Boorstin
Hollywood talent agencies are always selling stars, negotiating to get their clients big gigs, whether its writing, starring in, or directing movies and TV shows. But now, the super-agency, which has more than 3,000 clients, is teaming up with an Internet video-streaming company to actually create TV-quality programs for consumers to watch on computers, cell phones and other gadgets like iPods.
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"Idol" Rules; Russian Spy Films Eyed; Street Sweet On Media
Posted By: Julia Boorstin
News Corp. not only has MySpace, but Fox has its biggest-ever premiere as the "American Idol" brand stays strong. Big ratings changes are afoot as the Sundance Festival gears up. And find out why Jessica Reif Cohen likes Time Warner.
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Terrestrial Radio: The Comeback Kid?
Posted By: Julia Boorstin
The nation's largest radio broadcaster could be the largest media and entertainment sale in history. And if the deal doesn't go through, it's still a big deal. A big deal for shareholders, because if the buyout doesn't happen, the company is likely to be broken up (splitting the radio and outdoor advertising business) or we'll see a stock buyback.
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B.O. Rebound, Spielberg's Stolen Art and More...
Posted By: Julia Boorstin
This myth that Americans are forgoing movie theaters to watch films on their flatscreen TVs is just that - a myth...
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NBC Universal Teaming up with Hollywood Power Duo
Posted By: Julia Boorstin
After lots of speculation, the Hollywood power duo, Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun, are teaming up with our very own parent company, NBC Universal Television. When Gail Berman, a former Fox exec and Paramount Pictures chief, left the studio in January, and she teamed up with Lloyd Braun, former ABC exec and more recently, Yahoo Media chief, everyone wondered with whom they'd team up. They're not looking backwards and making deals with their former employers, instead going to NBC Universal ...
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NBC News, News
Posted By: Julia Boorstin
NBC has led the evening news ratings game for the past decade, but just a few weeks ago ABC pulled ahead -- its World News with Charles Gibson has been the most popular evening news broadcast twice in the past three weeks. So it just so happens that NBC is replacing the show's executive producer, reassigning John Reiss after less than two years at his post
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About Media Money
Media Money keeps you ahead of the curve in the ever-changing but always exciting media business. From Hollywood to Bollywood, digital explosions to perils in publishing, Julia Boorstin brings you the insight you need to better understand this evolving but ever entertaining industry.
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Working from Los Angeles, Boorstin is CNBC's media and entertainment reporter and author of CNBC.com's "Media Money" blog.