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Turner Digital Sales Boss Walker Jacobs Out

Walker Jacobs, the high-profile sales chief for Turner’s digital properties, is out after an org chart shuffle. Jacobs, who is best known for pushing Turner and other publishers not to use third-party ad networks and exchanges, won’t be directly replaced. A Turner memo announcing his departure didn’t reveal a new position for him but declared that “there are a number of options available to someone with Walker’s experience and accomplishments.”

Time Inc. Keeps Shrinking

The good news: It’s the biggest magazine publisher in America. The bad news …
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Google Brings Internet of the Future, TV of the Past to Austin

Crazy-fast Internet you’ll love — plus unbreakable content bundles you probably don’t love so much.
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ESPN’s Cunning Plan to Stream March Madness: Head to Bill Simmons’s House

The Sports Guy and his crew piggyback on one of the year’s biggest sports events. It could work!
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Blocked! March Madness Heads Farther Behind the Cable Pay Wall.

Yet another big-time sports event moves from free TV to pay TV: The NCAA championship game is set to switch from CBS to Turner next year.
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Time Warner Cashes Another Check From the Albanian Army

It was fun for Jeff Bewkes to tease Netflix a couple years ago. But now he’s happy to take Reed Hastings’s money.
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Amazon Adds a Couple More Time Warner Streaming Shows You Can’t See on Netflix

Jeff Bezos ponies up for “The Closer” and “Falling Skies.”
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Turner Buys Bleacher Report

It’s a done deal. Now, about that price …
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Google Fiber: Amazing Internet! Same Old TV.

Google can bring Kansas City crazy fast broadband. But it can’t blow up the TV bundle.
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Blake Krikorian Joins FreeWheel Board

The video tech start-up adds video start-up guy.
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Has Netflix Put Its Checkbook Away?

YouTube’s Newest Partner: Will Ferrell