Deals:
The New York Times Company says it signed a definitive agreement to sell its Regional Media Group to Florida's
Halifax Media Holdings for $143M. --- Some are not so good ...
Viacom's long-running attempts to forget
Garage Band hit another bump as it has been ordered to pay an additional $383M to former
Harmonix (Garage Band's originators) shareholders. Viacom will appeal the arbitrator's order.
Folks:
Comcast's
Michael Angelakis will be a board member of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia next month. ---
Business Insider looks at "
John Chambers' Absolutely Awful Year"
here (complete with typo).
Sports: The
NBA scored on TV as it opened December 25th.
Spectrum: The
CTIA has a "fact-based" brochure for policymakers
here.
Retail:
CEA's Index of Consumer Technology Expectations was up 2 points to 93.6. That might bode well for the 3DTV sets without glasses we'll see in Las Vegas in January.•
