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| Time Warner Cable's outlook disappoints; shares slump Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 11:27 AM PST  (Reuters) - Time Warner Cable Inc added fewer high-speed Internet users than expected in the fourth quarter and it gave a forecast for 2013 earnings growth on Thursday that missed Wall Street estimates, sending its shares down more than 10 percent. Time Warner Cable, the second-largest U.S. cable operator, and its larger rival Comcast Corp have increasingly relied on Internet services for growth as they continue to lose cable-TV subscribers and grapple with rising programming costs. ... Full Story | Top |
| Agency MP & Silva lands Premier League TV rights in Middle East Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 09:50 AM PST LONDON (Reuters) - TV sports rights firm MP & Silva has trumped larger rivals Abu Dhabi Media (ADM) and Al Jazeera to win a three-year contract to distribute English Premier League soccer in the Middle East and North Africa. The Premier League announced the agreement with the international media agency on Thursday, the latest in a series of rights deals expected to bring the League a total windfall of more than 5 billion pounds ($7.9 billion) in 2013 through 2016. ... Full Story | Top |
| One more newspaper for Buffett, this time in Greensboro, N.C Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 09:26 AM PST  (Reuters) - Warren Buffett added another newspaper to his growing chain at Berkshire Hathaway, scooping up The News & Record in Greensboro, North Carolina from Landmark Communications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed in a release on Thursday from BH Media Group, the division of Berkshire that operates its newspapers. The News & Record has a daily circulation of about 58,000, fitting nicely with BH Media's other newspapers, which are similar in size. Buffett is on a buying spree and has amassed 30 daily newspapers in Texas, Virginia, Nebraska, Iowa and other states in the U.S. Southeast. ... Full Story | Top |
| Book Talk: Backpacker-photographer shows China through unfiltered lens Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 07:33 AM PST  TORONTO (Reuters) - Tom Carter found himself homeless, jobless, with little money and 6,000 miles from home after answering a job posting on Craigslist that turned out to be a scam. But rather than return to San Francisco, Carter found a teaching job along China's Yellow River Delta, which is a world away from Beijing and Shanghai. Two years later, in 2006, he saved enough to embark on a 35,000-mile (56,325-km) two-year journey to every corner of China that inspired his 600-plus page photography book, "China: Portrait of a People. ... Full Story | Top |
| There's gold in luxury ads: Magazine publishers see sales gains Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 04:04 AM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Glossy products still look best on the glossy page. Advertising for luxury brands is driving increases in first-quarter ad pages at big magazine publishers, a welcome dose of good news for companies that have grappled with layoffs, restructurings and general malaise in a business whose fortunes have fallen as the online world has grown. Conde Nast, Hearst Magazines, Time Inc and Rodale all expect a rise in ad pages sold in their magazines for the first quarter. ... Full Story | Top |
| Translater's toil turns James Joyce opus into Chinese sellout Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 03:42 AM PST SHANGHAI (Reuters) - During the eight years it took Dai Congrong to translate "Finnegans Wake" into Chinese, she read numerous versions of the dictionary, took voluminous notes, and fought off despair and opposition from her husband. But her work on the first Chinese translation of the complex, stream-of-consciousness James Joyce opus about an Irish family paid off when the first print run of 8,000 sold out within weeks of hitting store shelves in December. "It was dull and depressing during the first two years," the 41-year-old literature professor at Shanghai's Fudan University told Reuters. ... Full Story | Top |
| Wispelwey: Loneliness of the long-distance cellist Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 03:21 AM PST LEIDEN, Netherlands (Reuters) - Dutch cellist Peter Wispelwey has recorded the haunting, delightful and soul-uplifting Bach Six Suites for Solo Cello three times and still he's not finished. His next, he says, is his "Lost in Translation" version, referring to the Bill Murray movie about an actor coming to terms with an alien culture in Tokyo. Wispelwey is doing the same, flying into the Japanese capital for recording sessions in the early morning hours. ... Full Story | Top |
| BSkyB to offer sports channels online for daily fee Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 02:33 AM PST  LONDON (Reuters) - BSkyB will offer its popular sports channels online for a daily fee, seeking new customers to offset slowing growth at its core pay-TV service amid sluggish consumer spending. Sky, Britain's dominant pay-TV group which provides fixed-line telephony, TV and broadband to 10.7 million households, has adapted its strategy during the economic downturn after years of chasing new subscribers to its core TV offering. ... Full Story | Top |
| New York Times says targeted by China hackers after Wen report Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 12:29 AM PST  BEIJING (Reuters) - The New York Times said on Thursday that Chinese hackers had "persistently" attacked its computers over the past four months since the paper published a story on Premier Wen Jiabao, but sensitive material related to the report was not accessed. The New York Times said the attacks coincided with its report last October that Wen's family had accumulated at least $2.7 billion in "hidden riches". China said at the time the report smeared his name and had ulterior motives. ... Full Story | Top |
| KKR, Apax to bid for Vivendi's GVT: report Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 11:18 PM PST PARIS (Reuters) - Private equity firms KKR and Apax Partners are teaming up to bid for French media group Vivendi's Brazilian telecoms subsidiary GVT, according to a Bloomberg report citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the matter. The KKR-Apax group is said to be willing to pay as much as 5 billion euros ($6.8 billion) for GVT, below Vivendi's asking price of 8 billion, the report said. BTG Pactual Group, Latin America's largest investment bank, is "still considering" whether to join the bid, it added. The group would be bidding against U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| "Gomer Pyle" actor Jim Nabors weds longtime male partner Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 07:40 PM PST SEATTLE (Reuters) - American actor Jim Nabors, the star of 1960s television comedy "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.," married his longtime male partner at a Seattle hotel this month. Nabors, 82, also a singer, wed 64-year-old Stan Cadwallader, his partner of some 38 years, in a ceremony before a judge on January 15 at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel, where the couple traveled after same sex marriage became legal in Washington state last month. "I was just trying to solidify all of our years together," Nabors told Reuters on Wednesday from Hawaii, where the two live. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. porn star Ron Jeremy resting after aneurysm surgery Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 06:07 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran pornography actor Ron Jeremy, one of the industry's biggest stars, was resting after undergoing surgery in Los Angeles on Wednesday for an aneurysm near his heart, his manager said. Jeremy, 59, who appeared in more than 2,000 adult films, drove himself to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles early on Wednesday after suffering from chest pains. "He just felt chest pains, like a very heavy weight," Jeremy's manager Mike Esterman said. "He is being worked on for an aneurysm near his heart. ... Full Story | Top |
| Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace in talks for Soviet thriller Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 04:39 PM PST NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace are in talks to star in "Child 44," a thriller that Ridley Scott and Michael Costigan are producing for Scott Free Productions, individuals with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap. "Safe House" filmmaker Daniel Espinosa will direct from a script by Richard Price, who is adapting Tom Rob Smith's novel. Set in Josef Stalin's Soviet Union, the story follows Leo Demidov, a disgraced intelligence agent investigating a series of child murders. The paranoid Soviet government then becomes suspicious of his investigation. ... Full Story | Top |
| Last of 1940s hitmakers Andrews Sisters dies in California Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 03:40 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Patty Andrews, the last surviving member of popular The Andrews Sisters singing trio of the 1940s and 1950s, has died in California at the age of 94, her spokesman said on Wednesday. Alan Eichler said Andrews died of natural causes at her home in the Northridge area of Los Angeles. Patty Andrews was the youngest of the threesome who made up The Andrews Sisters, whose tight harmonies with "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" were hits. ... Full Story | Top |
| ABC orders comedies 'Bad Management,' untitled Andrea Abbate project to pilot Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 03:08 PM PST LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - ABC has ordered single-camera comedies "Bad Management" and an untitled Andrea Abbate project to pilot, the network said on Wednesday. 20th Century Fox's Andrea Abbate-written half-hour comedy is being executive-produced by Shawn Levy, Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of 21 Laps/Adelstein Productions. The series will follow the mother of an adopted African-American boy who takes on the responsibility of raising her brother's kids after he is sent to prison. ... Full Story | Top |
| Glut of R-rated movies putting Box Office on overload Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 03:08 PM PST LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Bullet to the Head," the guns-blazing, axe-swinging action film from Sylvester Stallone, arrives Friday and is the latest violent, R-rated movie to open in January. The month itself could be rated "R" - for Repetitious. Nine of the 11 movies released widely since the start of the year and Friday are rated "R." Of last weekend's top 10 films, eight carried the restricted rating, which requires youngsters under 17 to be accompanied by an adult. ... Full Story | Top |
| Exclusive: Time Warner kicks off possible sale of NY headquarters Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 02:53 PM PST  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc is considering selling its New York headquarters and has asked real estate brokers to evaluate the building's value, potentially giving up on a monument to the dot-com era. One source said the company could still hang onto its portion of the Time Warner Center, a complex that Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes once called an "indulgence." Time Warner's 1.1 million square-foot headquarters is part of the larger Timer Warner Center, which the company now known as AREA Property Partners and Related Cos finished in Manhattan's Columbus Circle neighborhood in 2004. ... Full Story | Top |
| Mary Wells, singer of 'My Guy,' gets posthumous Rock Hall push Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 02:30 PM PST (Reuters) - Mary Wells, Motown Records' first female star who paved the way for the success of Diana Ross and The Supremes, shot to fame in the early 1960s only to fade away as a footnote of the longtime Detroit record label. Now, some two decades after Wells' death in 1992 at age 49, the singer who scored a No. 1 hit with "My Guy," is receiving a push for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ... Full Story | Top |
| Lindsay Lohan could face jail after March trial in California Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 01:54 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Lindsay Lohan will stand trial on March 18 on charges she lied to California police about a June car crash and violated probation, raising the possibility she could be sent back to jail. A judge in Los Angeles on Wednesday set the trial date on charges related to the car crash and said the court will hold a hearing at the same time on whether Lohan in the incident violated probation from a 2011 jewelry theft. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey to join The Muppets in crime comedy caper Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 01:09 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Muppets are planning to dominate the big screen again with a 1960s-style comedy caper starring Ricky Gervais and Tina Fey, director James Bobin said on Wednesday. "The Muppets ... Again!" will follow the Muppets cast - including Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy - as they take their show on a world tour only to be unwittingly ensnared in an international theft scheme perpetrated by villain Constantine, who looks identical to Kermit. Gervais plays the sidekick to villain Constantine, while Fey takes on the role of prison guard Nadya. ... Full Story | Top |
| Porn star Ron Jeremy hospitalized with aneurysm Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 01:01 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran pornography actor Ron Jeremy, one of the industry's biggest stars, was in intensive care and undergoing surgery for an aneurysm near his heart in Los Angeles, his manager said on Wednesday. Jeremy, 59, the star of more than 2,000 adult films, drove himself to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles early on Wednesday after suffering from chest pains. "He just felt chest pains, like a very heavy weight," Jeremy's manager Mike Esterman told Reuters. "He is being worked on for an aneurysm near his heart," Esterman added. ... Full Story | Top |
| Dr. Phil says Manti Te'o hoaxer admits to love for linebacker Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 12:12 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California man who has admitted to fabricating Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend in an elaborate hoax told talk show host Phil McGraw he felt a deep romantic love for the football player, McGraw said on Wednesday. "Here we have a young man that fell deeply, romantically in love," McGraw told the television morning show "Today" to discuss his two part interview with Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, which will air on "Dr. Phil" on Thursday and Friday. "I asked him straight up, 'Was this a romantic relationship with you?,' and he says yes. ... Full Story | Top |
| Country singer Gary Allan bests Grammy nominees for Billboard No. 1 Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 12:04 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Country singer Gary Allan scored his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart on Wednesday, keeping Grammy-nominated favorites from the top spot. Allan's ninth studio album "Set You Free" sold 106,000 copies in its first week, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan, garnering the singer his best sales week in his 17-year career. The Billboard 200 is the album chart for all music genres. Allan, 45, who is a staple within the country music scene, has notched three No. 1 albums in the Billboard country music chart. ... Full Story | Top |
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