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BO revs heavily rely on franchise films and 3-D. DVD rev plunges $1b. Tix sales for 3-D top $1.3b before Avatar.

economics moving away from statistics toward understanding protocols that shape interactions and foster creativity and productivity.

Fox is pushing hard for carriage fees of $1 per subscriber. Part of broader Murdoch strategy to charge for content. CBS now getting about $.50 per cable sub. Altogether, bc stations should take in $933m in fees in 2010, while cable nets take in $28b. Explains opposing positions in the negotiations.

State governments compete with film subsidies to lure Hollywood productions.

CBS launches movie slate. Aims for genres big studios have abandoned.

Xbox draws more users per hour than most cable channels. MSFT wants to blur boundaries between gaming and cable by providing more video content.

Internal strife at Microsoft kills innovation

Explains promise and peril of publisher alliances with the Apple tablet. Portends secure revenues, but deterioration of publishers' direct connection to subscribers.

CBS trying to launch daytime replacements for Oprah. Faces tough syndication market. Explains current mechanics of TV barter sales.

PARIS - Google said on Monday that it faced antitrust complaints in Germany from newspaper and magazine publishers who want the company to pay for using article snippets in its Web news service and search results.

Starting in 2011, The New York Times will only allow a reader a certain number of free articles, and then they will start to charge for web access.

iPad escalates data demands. Video a huge data hog.

Facebook changes policy on privacy settings. Wants to be more open like Twitter. Raises privacy concerns.

"The Internet, which many feared would draw viewers away from television, appears to be having exactly the opposite effect - at least when it comes to coverage of major events. Brian Stelter writes in The Times that TV executives have noticed big spikes in viewership of the Olympics, the Super Bowl, the Grammys and other special events that some of them trace to the effect of social networking sites."

Superbowl most watched show in history--breaking the previous record held by M*A*S*H. This article explores the enormity of the feat given the fractured nature of today's television viewing audience.

Discussion of the increasing amounts the average American household spends on cable, internet and gaming connections annually. Of special note is the lucrative nature of the subscription model for the media industry.

Article providing an analysis of the collapse of Air America, and what that means for progressive talk radio.

"Gawker Media, the eight-year-old online publishing heavyweight founded by Nick Denton, announced its first acquisition on Monday: the New York boldface name guide CityFile."

Article discussing Shaw Communications acquisition of Canwest Global Media's television assets. Article discusses legal and economic aspects of the acquisition.