Under Couric, Ratings Race Is Once Again, Well, a Race
Date: 19 September 2006
By Jacques Steinberg
Jacques Steinberg
Katie Couric, two weeks after taking over as evening news anchor on CBS, becomes apparent, but close, victor in ratings races with NBC and ABC; preliminary Nielsen figures show Couric drew average of 7.9 million viewers each night last week, beating out NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams by about 70,000 viewers and ABC's World News with Charles Gibson by about 370,000 each night (M)
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Under Couric, Ratings Race Is Once Again, Well, a Race
Date: 19 September 2006
By Jacques Steinberg
Jacques Steinberg
Katie Couric has made the ratings race among the three network newscasts more competitive than it has been in nearly a decade.
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Belgian Court Tells Google to Drop Newspaper Excerpts
Date: 19 September 2006
By Paul Meller
Paul Meller
The court ordered Google to remove all links to French- and German-language newspaper reports published in Belgium.
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Belgian Court Tells Google to Drop Newspaper Excerpts
Date: 19 September 2006
By Paul Meller
Paul Meller
Belgian Court of First Instance, siding with publishers association Copiepresse, warns Google that failure to remove summaries of newspaper articles linked to newspaper Web sites will result in daily fines of 1 million euros ($1.27 million); Google contends that copyright law protects its service under fair-use provisions, that decision is flawed and says it will appeal (M)
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G.M. Talked With Ford About Merger, Report Says
Date: 19 September 2006
By Nick Bunkley
Nick Bunkley
Managers from Ford and G.M. began meeting in July, according to Automotive News, but the talks are no longer occurring and no further action is expected.
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G.M. Talked With Ford About Merger, Report Says
Date: 19 September 2006
By Nick Bunkley
Nick Bunkley
Automotive News reports that executives at General Motors and Ford held discussions in July about partnership or merger; says discussions have broken off and no further action is expected; both companies decline to confirm discussions and industry analysts quickly dismiss notion as highly doubtful (M)
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Satellite TV’s 3-Headed Rival: Cable Plus Internet Plus Phone
Date: 18 September 2006
By Saul Hansell
Saul Hansell
If the satellite business is so great, why is Rupert Murdoch thinking of selling DirecTV and why is John Malone thinking of buying it?
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Satellite TV’s 3-Headed Rival: Cable Plus Internet Plus Phone
Date: 18 September 2006
By Saul Hansell
Saul Hansell
For two decades, Rupert Murdoch worked to become king of the cosmos, launching a ring of satellites that hover over five continents. He wanted to make sure he could beam his movies, networks and sports programming directly to viewers without being beholden to cable television operators. But Mr. Murdoch has apparently decided that 22,240 miles -- the altitude of a communications satellite -- is too great a distance from his customers, at least in the United States. Mr. Murdoch, who controls the News Corporation, has been discussing trading his shares in DirectTV to John C. Malone's company, Liberty Media, in return for Liberty's stock in Mr. Murdoch's company.
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Deeper Spying Is Seen in Hewlett Review
Date: 18 September 2006
By Damon Darlin
Damon Darlin
A secret investigation of news leaks at Hewlett-Packard was more elaborate than previously reported, and almost from the start involved the illicit gathering of private phone records and direct surveillance of board members and journalists, according to people briefed on the company's review of the operation. The effort received some degree of supervision from three officials -- Patricia C. Dunn, the company's chairwoman, along with its general counsel and another staff attorney -- but was quickly farmed out to a network of private investigative firms early last year, according to descriptions of the findings. It is still unclear how much they knew of the details.
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Deeper Spying Is Seen in Hewlett Review
Date: 18 September 2006
By Damon Darlin
Damon Darlin
A review found that an investigation of news leaks involved illicit gathering of phone records and direct surveillance of board members and journalists.
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