Advertisers agreed to retain the existing system for network TV - which rewards actors each time their ad is shown - but insisted on an increased flat-rate pay structure for cable and the internet.

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Over the years, the three main cable news channels have evolved to become much more similar in programming structure.

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The dispute between the broadcast network and the cable distributor arose as the two sought to negotiate a new fee structure to be paid by Time Warner to ABC for rights to transmit the network's programs -- and those of Disney-ABC's other television properties -- over its various cable systems.

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As a concession to the coalition's junior party, the Liberal Democrats, and in particular to Vince Cable, the business secretary, an independent commission has been set up to look at the structure of Britain's banks.

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