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Smoking in youth-rated movies has not declined despite a pledge two years ago by Hollywood studios to encourage producers to show less 'gratuitous smoking,' according to an anti-smoking group.

Composer Michael Nyman is making edited tracks from his score to "The Piano" available to a group of short-film directors....

Microsoft picked the name of its new search engine very carefully, right? But, did the branding group think of some of these ramifications?

Time Warner to buy back Google's 5% stake in AOL and focus on its TV, movies and publishing operationsTime Warner and AOL are to go their separate ways by the end of the year, a decade after the internet company and media conglomerate came together in the biggest and most disastrous deal of the dotcom boom.The separation, which management at the media group has been discussing for several years, will also see Time Warner buy back Google's 5% stake in AOL.The search engine company spent $1bn buying the stake in 2005 as a way of preventing Microsoft from becoming the site's advertising partner. But since then Time Warner has seen its share price crash and earlier this year Google wrote down the value of the stake by $726m.Demerging AOL, which will become a separately quoted company on the stock market, will allow Time Warner to focus on its TV, movies and publishing operations, including well known brands such as Warner Bros, HBO and Time magazine.'We believe that a separation will be th

Time Warner to buy back Google's 5% stake in AOL and focus on its TV, movies and publishing operationsTime Warner and AOL are to go their separate ways by the end of the year, a decade after the internet company and media conglomerate came together in the biggest and most disastrous deal of the dotcom boom.The separation, which management at the media group has been discussing for several years, will also see Time Warner buy back Google's 5% stake in AOL.The search engine company spent $1bn buying the stake in 2005 as a way of preventing Microsoft from becoming the site's advertising partner. But since then Time Warner has seen its share price crash and earlier this year Google wrote down the value of the stake by $726m.Demerging AOL, which will become a separately quoted company on the stock market, will allow Time Warner to focus on its TV, movies and publishing operations, including well known brands such as Warner Bros, HBO and Time magazine.'We believe that a separation will be th

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International News: Move will boost presence in digital TV -- Leading Gallic commercial net TF1 is close to inking a Euros 192 million ($267.7 million) investment in AB Group, a digital TV channel operator and rights broker.

Annual report reveals growing pension shortfall that has prevented ITN shareholders from selling stakes in news providerThe scale and seriousness of ITN's pension shortfall is laid bare in its annual report and accounts for 2008, casting doubt on the news provider's future, MediaGuardian can reveal.It has deteriorated so sharply that any attempt by shareholders to sell their stakes in the supplier of ITV and Channel 4 News has been torpedoed.The directors warn that the pension uncertainty 'casts significant doubt upon the group's and company's ability to continue as a going concern'.The accounts, audited by Deloitte, show that the pension deficit rose sharply to £39.9m by the end of 2008, up from £22.8m in 2007, and the company's directors warn that this is likely to go 'significantly higher' during the current year, when a valuation is finalised.A final update to the accounts by the auditors adds that the 'pension scheme may show a substantial deficit at the time of its next valuation

Annual report reveals growing pension shortfall that has prevented ITN shareholders from selling stakes in news providerThe scale and seriousness of ITN's pension shortfall is laid bare in its annual report and accounts for 2008, casting doubt on the news provider's future, MediaGuardian can reveal.It has deteriorated so sharply that any attempt by shareholders to sell their stakes in the supplier of ITV and Channel 4 News has been torpedoed.The directors warn that the pension uncertainty 'casts significant doubt upon the group's and company's ability to continue as a going concern'.The accounts, audited by Deloitte, show that the pension deficit rose sharply to £39.9m by the end of 2008, up from £22.8m in 2007, and the company's directors warn that this is likely to go 'significantly higher' during the current year, when a valuation is finalised.A final update to the accounts by the auditors adds that the 'pension scheme may show a substantial deficit at the time of its next valuation