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Oprah Winfrey for President? Apparently reversing her long-standing dismissal of the notion, the CEO of OWN now doesn’t seem at all averse to at least contemplating the possibility. In an interview on Bloomberg TV’s The David Rubenstein Show –– taped in December but premiering today — Winfrey is asked whether, given…

For reasons we cannot explain, With All Due Respect’s Mark Halperin and John Heilemann decided to make a video in which they ask The Newsroom’s faux news anchor Will McAvoy (aka Jeff Daniels) a question only slightly less inane than the one he got in Newsroom‘s opening sequence. If you recall, Sorority Girl asked…

EXCLUSIVE: Bloomberg TV will begin streaming online this month on Pluto TV under a new partnership, making Pluto the first “over-the-top” online-video provider to offer the business news cable channel for free. It’s a big win for the year-old Pluto TV site, which aggregates a broad array of linear and on-demand video…

There’s no particular deadline for CBS to respond to Time Warner Cable’s offer to carry the network-owned stations on an a la carte basis, says Rob Marcus —  who will become TWC’s CEO at year end. But he hints, in an interview on Bloomberg Television, that TWC is prepared for a long fight over program carriage terms…

Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp-backed online-television streaming startup Aereo has made a deal to add Bloomberg TV as its first cable network offering. Aereo is paying Bloomberg for the privilege, according to the Wall Street Journal. Terms weren’t disclosed. Aereo streams over-the-air broadcast signals to NYC…

Bloomberg TV Asks FCC To Force Comcast Channel Placement Bloomberg TV petitioned the FCC on Friday to force Comcast to immediately place the independent business news channel in the close numerical proximity to similar news services in 59 additional markets. The FCC back in May agreed with Bloomberg that Comcast…

Today’s order from the regulatory agency’s Media Bureau means that by tomorrow Bloomberg TV will be located next to other news channels such as CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, and Fox News in about 158 of Comcast’s systems. The bureau pretty much sided with Bloomberg, ruling that the cable company had to move the business news…

This is essentially the job that respected producer Dan Colarusso had up to November when he leaped to Reuters. Arnall will set the daily editorial agenda and oversee bureaus in cities including Washington and San Francisco. But Arnall will be more focused on multimedia than Colarusso was as head of U.S…

Trish Regan’s been seen a lot lately on Good Morning America and appeared as recently as last night on ABC World News. She was represented in this deal by Octagon’s John Ferriter and George Arquilla. Here’s Bloomberg’s release: New York, December 19, 2011– Bloomberg Television announced today it has signed Trish…

UPDATE: 6:20 PM: Bloomberg LP has responded to Comcast’s rebuttal with a statement this evening saying it is confident that the FCC will enforce the Comcast-NBCUniversal merger conditions that “Comcast expressly accepted,” including the one that guarantees protections for independent sources of news. “Despite these…

Bloomberg Game Changers last night profiled News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch with interviews including former No. 2 Peter Chernin and current Fox Sports chairman David Hill. There’s some good stuff in here, including Chernin talking about Murdoch’s hands-on…

Bloomberg last week said it planned to file a complaint with the FCC against Comcast charging that the cable operator is discriminating against services like Bloomberg TV that compete with NBC Universal channels like CNBC. Today, Bloomberg made the complaint filing official. The dispute centers on the two companies…