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CHICAGO, November 13: A number of companies are interested in buying the Tribune Company, including the Gannett Company, the largest newspaper publisher in the U.S., and Maurice Greenberg, former chairman of insurer American International Group Inc. According to The Wall …

DENVER, November 13: Liberty Global has announced that Belgian Cable Investors, a company it controls, has exercised options to purchase 6.75 million shares in Telenet Group Holding, the largest cable operator in Belgium, for a total price of 135 million …

LONDON, November 13: Mobile giant Vodafone has announced it will now offer broadband services for £25 a month starting January 8, 2007, to its mobile phone customers. Called Vodafone at Home, the package includes line rental, unlimited broadband access, landline …

LOS ANGELES, November 13: The Walt Disney Company’s SoapNet has launched Fantasy Soap League, a Web-based fantasy site based on televised soaps that is designed to attract women 18 to 34. The game works similarly to fantasy football, where players, …

LOS ANGELES, November 13: FOX Broadcasting Company has pulled the drama Justice from its schedule. Justice, from Jerry Bruckheimer Television, which looked at the top legal minds in a boutique law firm in Los Angeles, failed to gain a significant …

LOS ANGELES, November 13: The ABC Network has picked up a real-time medical-comedy project from the creators of 24. The project, whose name is The Call, focuses on two paramedics who are best friends and go about saving people’s lives …

TORONTO, November 13: Cuppa Coffee Studios has expanded with the purchase of a new production facility in Toronto. This 45,000 square foot property, formerly owned and occupied by The Partners Film Company, houses 40 stop-motion studios, 50 compositing stations, 7 …

NEW JERSEY, November 13: Alfred Haber Distribution has been chosen as the exclusive international distributor for the much anticipated 2-hour Madonna: The Confessions Tour Live From London, which will premiere on the NBC Television Network November 22nd. The special was …

NORWALK, November 13: CABLEready has sold 66 hours of programming to TV outlets in China, Japan, Korea, Thailand and New Zealand. Thailand’s UBC picked up two CABLEready reality series: Multiples, Multiples, which looks at how four families cope with multiple …

TORONTO, November 13: Shaftesbury Films has acquired the rights to the book Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, which will be developed into a TV series. The drama series, based on a book written by Vincent Lam, a Toronto-based emergency-room physician, is …