Front Page: Pay TV executives want to change terms of deal -- Armed with his new stake in DirecTV, John Malone will no doubt change the landscape of the cable and satellite biz. But the ripple effect extends into some unexpected places -- including the sale of theatrical films to Malone's Starz pay TV network and its HBO and Showtime competitors.
| TV News: TV business braces for sharp twists this year -- Net execs aren't crooning "Auld Lang Syne" with much joy, as 2007 rings in with mounting challenges. Comedy's still in crisis. The Internet still looks like the Wild West for broadcasters. Programming costs continue to climb while advertisers are growing more impatient with network erosion. Then there's that not-so-little fear of a strike. |
| NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - In New Orleans, 2007 begins much the same way 2006 did, with large swaths of the city still wrecked and abandoned after Hurricane Katrina, and local officials promising that better days lie just ahead. |
| AWJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein was buried in the dead of night in his native village on Sunday, prompting an outpouring of sectarian anger as the 3,000th American soldier was reported to have died in Iraq. |
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