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...One afternoon a few weeks before Christmas, Jim Riswold rolled his wheelchair across the threshold of a downtown gallery in Portland, Oregon, where his exhibition Two Wars in One was opening....
...And banks still hold vastly more debt from financial packages backing buyouts of television ratings group Nielsen, TV broadcaster Tegna, car parts maker Tenneco and — if completed — Elon Musk’s $44bn takeover...
...Tegna is selling itself at an all-time high, buoyed by sales of ads and content to pay-TV providers. Americans still rely heavily on local TV for news....
...a shopaholic (FT) ‘Blank cheque’ group Far Point agrees Global Blue acquisition (FT) Morgan Stanley raises shareholder return targets after record earnings (FT) + (Lex) Hedge fund nominates four to Tegna...
...Local broadcast owners’ have suffered: Sinclair’s stock has lost 12 per cent this year, while EW Scripps and Tegna shares have fallen 14 per cent....
...Even if Mr Trump and the Republicans wage war on the airwaves through to November, local TV groups should not expect too much credit....
...Comcast, already the biggest cable TV company in the US, has argued that it should be allowed to combine with number two TWC because the two companies do not compete on pay TV in local markets....
...Google on Wednesday revealed ambitious plans to compete more directly with the US cable TV and telecoms industries as it said it wanted to build high-speed fibre optic networks in nine new US metropolitan...
...Hospital Corporation of America, which runs private hospitals in Britain including the Princess Grace and the Portland, has taken floors five, six and seven of the landmark building, becoming the tower’s...
...Revenues from the legacy News Corp’s TV and film businesses long have helped prop up its newspaper assets....
...Starting in Portland, Oregon, in December and then Austin, Texas, this month, Google is delivering marketing kits to local businesses, including “Recommended on Google” stickers for shop windows....
...Mr Desmond already owns a number of TV channels, including the adult entertainment channel Television X and the Express Shopping Channel, through Northern & Shell’s subsidiary Portland Media Group....
...Like the UK’s i-level, Portland- based digital asset management company Extensis was keen to involve employees in the design of its revamped lounge....
...“I think probably even the Q TV people were surprised they got such a nice response here,” says Beth Scarborough, the president of Time Warner Cable in Lincoln....
...According to the Portland (Maine) Press-Herald last week, Green Party VP nominee Pat LaMarche said she would vote for Kerry if her home state was “a toss up”....
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