January 14 - January 20, 2007
Saturday, Jan. 20
The board came away from today's meeting in Chicago with basically nothing to report. Tribune said after the session that...
Friday, Jan. 19
In my haste this morning, I neglected to note today's best Tribune-related story: The LAT's revelation that in the event...
The December jobless rate for Los Angeles County was 4.5 percent, up from the record-low of 4.2 percent the previous...
OK, so is MySpace a leader on Internet safety, as its chief security officer maintains, or is it guilty of...
You might think that being mentioned in the WSJ's House of the Week feature would almost guarantee lots of interest...
Dealbreaker (that's the Wall Street site of former Gawker editor Elizabeth Spears) came across this gem of a guy in...
Tribune follos: Not much to chew on in the second day stories, other than the WSJ identifying the private equity...
Thursday, Jan. 18
The 120-room hotel will be at the corner of Santa Monica and Wilshire - the Trader Vic's location right next...
His contract with HarperCollins wound up on Court TV's Web site and is now making the online rounds. It was...
That breaks out to $19.30 for the newspapers and $12.40 for the television stations. The $31.70 a share total -...
Everything you might want to know about OC tearing up its venerable 714 area code gets a going-over in this...
Y'know, the undulating ones that keep popping up on Web site ads for Santa Monica-based LowerMyBills.com. The ones many of...
Just a quick roundup this morning: *Oops: Forgive the earlier typo (now corrected) - hed should be Time Time lays...
So now what do they do? The so-called auction has wound up with some crazy, jerry-rigged proposals - starting with...
Wednesday, Jan. 17
LAT reports that the two billionaires would offer $500 million and some sort of debt package for a minority stake...
The WSJ reports tonight that at least two bid proposals for Tribune Co. are expected - one from Eli Broad...
Parent publisher HarperCollins made the announcement today. It's not a big surprise, considering that the imprint's impresario, Judith Regan, was...
Chicago Tribune reports that a consortium of Madison Dearborn Partners, Apollo Management and Providence Equity Partners could not agree on...
The Anaheim/Orange County Walk of Stars? Who knew? It's been around since November to honor folks who have made a...
Nah, I'm not talking about the sad-sack Tribune Co. auction. What's really popping today is an emerging bid from three...
We're talking more than 37 million viewers and a 36 share in the 18-49 bracket - up from last year's...
Orange prices jump: Wholesale prices anyway. LAT reports that naval oranges are now about $35 per bushel basket, almost double...
Tuesday, Jan. 16
About 10,000 guards will become members of the Service Employees International Union. A deal was announced today among building owners,...
After several weeks of falling oil prices, gasoline is finally following suit. The Energy's Department's latest weekly survey shows that...
By quite a bit, actually. NBC's telecast of the increasingly pompous awards ceremony (it used to be a lot more...
Tonight kicks off the sixth season and of course the ratings will be through the roof. So why not buy...
Crop damage: It's looking like 70 percent of the orange crop - basically whatever was left on the trees -...
Monday, Jan. 15
Just two days before the deadline to submit offers for Tribune Co., they're not sure whether to go after the...
Well, you knew this was one was coming. TMZ.com, the tabloid Web site started by former consumer watchdog Harvey Levin,...
It could be a while before anyone has a slant on how much damage was done during the weekend cold...
The fire was brought under control in a couple of hours this morning, but there's no word on possible damage...
We might get some clues this week on how contract negotiations will go between Socal's three major supermarket chains and...
Handicapping the Globes: "Babel" and "The Departed" are given the best odds by the LAT's Envelope for best drama at...
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