Gemstar-TV Guide Taps Fox Executive as CEO
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Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. said on Friday it replaced Chief Executive Jeff Shell, credited with steering the company through a patch of legal woes, with a Fox Entertainment executive, in a move seen as strengthening Gemstar's television programing assets.
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Kmart Holding Corp. has named a restaurant and branding expert as its new president and chief executive officer. The Troy retailer announced this morning that Aylwin Lewis would join the discount retailer from YUM!
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Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. on  Thursday said it has signed an license agreement with Yahoo  Inc. to offer its television program guides online.
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Leaders of Discoveryâs cable channels will now report to the chief executive, giving him a more hands-on role.
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Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. said on  Wednesday it would launch on October 15 its new Fox Business  Network, a cable channel that aims to rival General Electric  Co.&#39;s CNBC.
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Gemstar-TV Guide (NASDAQ: GMST), a leading media, entertainment and technology company, and TiVo Inc.
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The Fox channel will be launched this fall and will reach at least 30 million subscribers, the company said.
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An MTV Networks Europe head has quit to join the British broadband television service, BT Vision.  Michael Berry, managing director of MTV U.K. & Ireland, in April will join BT Vision as director of programming, Variety said Monday.
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BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7  /PRNewswire/ -- TV Guide Mobile Entertainment Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc.
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NEW YORK -- Jeff Zucker's rise from directing Katie Couric in the morning to running a huge media conglomerate was completed Tuesday, as parent General Electric Co. announced his appointment as president and CEO of NBC Universal.
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Viacom Inc. on Thursday named Joel Hollander as chairman and chief executive officer of its Infinity radio unit in a shake-up of top management that comes as it tries to boost business amid an industry-wide slump.
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The Fox network has put a positive spin on the six-week-old writersâ strike, crowing that the labor dispute would lead to changes to the development process and cost savings. Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly said in October: âIt would give us an excuse to shake things up.â Foxâs parent News Corp. chief operating officer Peter Chernin [...].
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Long-running company MobiTV announced today that it has entered into a multi-year agreement with Gemstar-TV Guide, promising interactive program guides for the mobile TV service.
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Six weeks after his ouster as NBC&#39;s  chief programmer, Kevin Reilly was named on Monday as  entertainment president of rival television network Fox  Broadcasting Co., reunited with his former cable TV boss, Peter  Liguori.
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NBC Universal television chief Jeff Zucker -- longtime heir apparent to chief executive Bob Wright -- will be promoted to the network's top job early in the coming week, taking over an operation making massive cuts on the television side to beef up its Internet presence.
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Jeff Zucker will be named chairman and chief executive of NBC Universal on Tuesday, succeeding Bob Wright, according to people close to the company.
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Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.  on Thursday named former Viacom Inc. President Mel Karmazin as its chief executive, in the latest migration of a mainstream radio heavyweight to the fledgling satellite industry.