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• Ken Venturi, Golf Champion and Broadcaster, Dies at 82

  Richard Goldstein @ New York Times - Media & Advertising - 17 hours, 42 minutes ago

  Mr. Venturi won the 1964 United States Open, nearly collapsing from heat exhaustion. He later became a chief golf analyst for CBS Sports, where he worked for 35 years.

• Critic’s Notebook: Candice Glover Prevails, but ‘American Idol’ Loses Spark

  Jon Caramanica @ New York Times - Media & Advertising - 1 day ago

  A soul singer named Candice Glover was crowned winner of ‘American Idol,’ concluding a season in which judges’ squabbles overshadowed contestants, and the show lost ground to its rivals.

• Media Decoder: Green and Aguilera to Return to ‘The Voice’

  Bill Carter @ New York Times - Media & Advertising - 1 day ago

  After taking a spring break, the two judges will be back in the fall, NBC announced.

• On Night of Big Finales, ‘Office’ Rises and ‘Idol’ Falls

  Bill Carter @ New York Times - Media & Advertising - 1 day, 4 hours ago

  “American Idol’' on Fox continued its sharp dropoff in ratings from previous seasons, especially in the 18-49 age group.

• Less ‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to Live’ on Web

  New York Times - Media & Advertising - 1 day, 23 hours ago

  The producers who gave new life on the Web to “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” have decided that four new episodes a week was too many.

• Warner Music Gains Approval to Buy Parlophone, a Last Piece of EMI

  Ben Sisario @ New York Times - Media & Advertising - 2 days, 10 hours ago

  The $765 million purchase involves major artists like Coldplay and Radiohead. To win approval in Europe, Warner Music agreed to sell assets to independent labels.

• E-Book Sales a Boon to Publishers in 2012

  Julie Bosman @ New York Times - Media & Advertising - 3 days, 16 hours ago

  In a year that was monopolized by the “Fifty Shades” erotic novels and knockoffs, e-book sales in fiction rose 42 percent over the year before, to $1. 8 billion.

• U.S. Now Paints Apple as ‘Ringmaster’ in Its Lawsuit on E-Book Price-Fixing

  Edward Wyatt And Nick Wingfield @ New York Times - Media & Advertising - 3 days, 17 hours ago

  According to the Justice Department, Apple took a leadership role in a price-fixing conspiracy in the market for e-books.

• Rival Sues to Block TV Show About Hynes, Brooklyn Prosecutor

  Joseph Berger @ New York Times - Media & Advertising - 3 days, 17 hours ago

  Abe George, a former assistant district attorney in Manhattan who is running against the Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, aims to stop the broadcast of a six-part series featuring Mr. Hynes’s office.

• Advertising: Univision Reset Sights After Ratings Win Over NBC

  Tanzina Vega And Stuart Elliott @ New York Times - Media & Advertising - 3 days, 19 hours ago

  Univision and many other television networks and channels aimed at Hispanics made their presentations to advertisers for the coming fall season.