Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. executives said Wednesday that the company won't try to buy any other big content companies, a day after it called off its pursuit of rival media giant Time Warner Inc.

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Retired Johns Hopkins surgeon Ben Carson has been hired to be a contributor at Fox News. Roger Ailes, the chairman and CEO of the network, made the announcement on Wednesday in a news release on the network’s website. Carson, who ...

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Sinclair Broadcast Group, of Hunt Valley, an independent television broadcasting company, said Thursday that it has closed on its previously announced acquisition of Seattle-based Fisher Communications, Inc. for approximately $373.3 million, or $41 per share, less acquired working capital.

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Buoyed once again by election-year advertising, Hunt Valley-based Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. reported higher revenues and earnings on Wednesday for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2012.

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Fox may want MASN, but do the Orioles want to sell?

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NEW YORK — Major League Baseball agreed with Fox and Turner Sports on eight-year contracts that will run through 2021 and keep the World Series on Fox. The amount baseball receives from the two networks will double to an average ...

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FORT WORTH, Texas — The Big 12 announced a new 13-year deal with ESPN and Fox Sports on Friday that is reportedly worth $2.6 billion and should provide long-term stability for a conference that once seemed on the brink of ...

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WASHINGTON — A U.S. District Judge in Delaware says a bankruptcy judge erred in freeing the Los Angeles Dodgers from provisions of its current Fox Sports TV contract. U.S. District Judge Leonard Stark released a 33-page ruling Tuesday explaining his ...

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WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware bankruptcy judge is set to hear arguments on a request by Fox Sports to delay consideration of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ plan to sell media rights to future games. Fox contends that the planned media ...

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DOVER, Del. — The Los Angeles Dodgers are complaining that a Fox subsidiary is illegally trying to interfere with efforts to sell the team and it assets, including media rights to future games. Dodgers attorneys filed a complaint Wednesday in ...

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