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News Corp.'s the Daily will expire on Dec. 15, the company announced Monday. The tablet -only periodical was the first of its kind, a newspaper that was published for the iPad alone initially. After its first year, it branched out, expanding to the Kindle Fire and other Android devices. Rupert Murdoch launched the Daily with much fanfare in February 2011. Its executive editor, Jesse Angelo, will become publisher of the New York Post, another News Corp. property. News Corp.

Can the return of Michael J. Fox, agent Jack Bauer and "Ironside" help vanquish the flesh-eating zombies that are threatening to take a bite out of television broadcasters' fortunes? ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC are unveiling their fall lineups this week with the hopes that their latest crop of crime-solving dramas and half-hour comedies will cure what ails the broadcast industry. The networks are coming off a lackluster season marked by falling ratings and a failure to produce new hits on the magnitude of cable channel AMC's zombie show "The Walking Dead.

News Corp., the global media company controlled by Rupert Murdoch, said it plans to raise at least $600 million in a sale of notes. The sale could raise as much as $700 million if initial purchasers of the notes exercise options to buy more, the Sydney-based company said. It said it will use cash raised in the offering to pay debt and for "general corporate purposes." News Corp. said it expects to issue 20-year notes that holders can exchange for News Corp.

William C. Cox Jr., the patriarch of the Bancroft clan that controlled Dow Jones & Co. for 105 years and sold it to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in a decision sparking a family feud, died Wednesday at his home in Hobe Sound, Fla., according to his daughter, Ann Bartram. He was 82. The cause was complications from diabetes. Cox was at the center of a protracted family dispute that ultimately led to the sale of New York-based Dow Jones, owner of the Wall Street Journal, to News Corp.

NEW YORK -- Publisher Judith Regan and the media conglomerate News Corp. announced a confidential settlement Friday in the $100-million lawsuit Regan had filed against her former employer. In a joint statement, both sides said an amicable resolution was reached, in which neither party admitted any liability. News Corp.

News Corp., owner of the Fox television network, said it named Michael Regan Jr., a former executive of NextWave Telecom Inc., as its senior vice president of government affairs. Regan, 40, takes over responsibility for government affairs from Robert Quicksilver, executive vice president of network distribution at News Corp.'s Fox Broadcasting Co. Quicksilver will remain with the company in his current position, spokesman Andrew Butcher said.

The Federal Communications Commission will take weeks to complete its review of media titan News Corp.'s bid to acquire Chris-Craft Industries Inc. to allow three new commissioners to get up to speed, the agency's chief said Wednesday. The deal lacked enough support on the previous commission to win final approval. Two Republicans, Kathleen Abernathy and Kevin Martin, and one Democrat, Michael Copps, were confirmed last week by the Senate as commissioners of the FCC, which has five seats.

Hughes Electronics Corp., operator of DirecTV, the top U.S. satellite TV broadcaster, was sued by a shareholder who wants a judge to block a possible takeover by News Corp. and order the company auctioned. News Corp., headed by Rupert Murdoch, has been in takeover talks with Hughes, a unit of General Motors Corp. EchoStar Communications Corp., the No. 2 U.S. satellite TV service with its Dish TV network, has offered to buy Hughes for about $30 billion.

News Corp. has finalized a pact to sell a Salt Lake City television station to gain regulatory approval for its purchase of Chris-Craft Industries Inc., U.S. antitrust enforcers said. News Corp., which owns Fox television network and 23 U.S. television stations, had foreshadowed the sale in January when it announced that the Department of Justice had closed its investigation into the proposed $5.3-billion deal.

News Corp. denied Monday that Chairman Rupert Murdoch personally pulled the plug on a TV movie project about the sexual harassment allegations against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The movie was to be based on the 1994 book "Strange Justice," written by then-Wall Street Journal reporters Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson. Mayer now writes for the New Yorker and Abramson writes for the New York Times. News Corp.

Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch and other board members of News Corp. were sued by shareholders for lax oversight and alleged misdeeds within the sprawling media conglomerate. News Corp. on Monday agreed to settle the case.  Now here's the punch line: News Corp. will be the one collecting the $139 million settlement -- not the shareholders who brought the suit. ON LOCATION: Where the cameras roll Here's how that worked out: Insurance companies that represent News Corp.'s board will make the payout on behalf of Murdoch and others on News Corp.'s board.

WASHINGTON - An eagerly awaited immigration overhaul from a bipartisan group of senators arrived early Wednesday, an 844-page bill that both the political left and right now see as the best chance in decades to achieve fix a broken immigration system. The business community welcomed the legislation as an economic priority that would establish new guest worker programs, while immigration advocates see the opportunity to provide a 13-year path to legal status for the estimated 11 million people who entered this country illegally or overstayed visas.

As big media continues to press its fight against Aereo in the courts, the little start-up is taking its case to the people. Aereo, which distributes broadcast TV signals to consumers via the Internet -- much to the chagrin of Fox, CBS, ABC and NBC -- took out a full-page ad in the front section of Tuesday's New York Times defending its business against accusations of copyright theft. The company, whose backers include media mogul Barry Diller, also took some shots at the broadcasters.

Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen once compared his corporate strategy to an episode of "Seinfeld. " “You initially didn't know exactly where things were going, but it seemed to all come together in the end,” he said. “This is what is happening at Dish.” For Ergen, that means turning a satellite broadcaster into a telecommunications giant. Concerned about slow growth in the pay-TV business, Ergen has made a $25.5-billion unsolicited bid for Sprint Nextel. A merger would give Dish the ability to package Internet and phone service with its satellite offerings.

Rupert Murdoch has settled on a new name for his soon-to-be-reconstituted film and television company: 21st Century Fox, a moniker with a guaranteed 87-year shelf life. That should be more than sufficient for the 82-year-old media mogul. Murdoch and senior managers had previously announced that the existing News Corp. would be renamed "Fox Group" when the media conglomerate cleaves itself into two separate publicly traded companies this summer. ON LOCATION: Where the cameras roll The newspapers and publishing assets will be given the News Corp.

If Rupert Murdoch had gotten his way, the miniseries "The Bible" might very well have ended up airing on the Fox News Channel instead of the History channel, where it was a huge hit. Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corp., was hot for "The Bible" as soon as he heard about it from Mark Burnett, the reality TV king ("Survivor," "The Apprentice") who made the miniseries with wife Roma Downey and Hearst Entertainment. Although Hearst co-owns History, "The Bible" was pitched elsewhere first and Murdoch was the first to raise his hand for the event program.

News Corp. on Friday filed for the anticipated spinoff of part of its U.S. film, television and sports businesses, a move that could help Chairman Rupert Murdoch boost his company's market value. News Corp., the world's fifth-largest media company, said in late June that it planned to sell as much as 20% of Fox Entertainment Group Inc. to the public. Fox Entertainment's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission didn't disclose how much it hoped to raise in the stock sale.

News Corp. agreed to buy Heritage Media Corp. for $1.35 billion in stock and assumed debt, a deal that would swallow News Corp.'s main competition in product promotions in U.S. supermarkets. The Australian media giant said it would pay $20.50 a share for Heritage, a 69% premium to Friday's closing price. News Corp., owner of Fox television, plans to sell Heritage's six television and 24 radio stations. This year, News Corp.'

News Corp. Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey made big headlines Monday for suggesting that Fox could go from a broadcast network to cable channel to make ends meet.  The implication is that consumers would have to pay to watch Bart Simpson or catch some NFL football on Sunday afternoons. But for all intents and purpose, Fox is already a cable channel and has been for a long time. Yes, about 10% to 15% of the country's TV consumers still get Fox via antennas, but everyone else receives its signals from a pay-TV provider such as Time Warner Cable or DirecTV.

In light of a second preliminary court ruling in favor of Aereo, a service that lets people record and watch broadcast television programs through the Internet, a top News Corp. executive says the company may take its Fox television stations off the airwaves, Bloomberg's Andy Fixmer reported Monday. And News Corp. isn't the only broadcaster that may retreat from over-the-air TV; according to Forbes' Jeff Bercovici, two major networks are mulling whether to do so if they can't prevail in court against Aereo and Dish Network's automatic recording and commercial-skipping features.