The talks are thought to be far advanced and likely to lead to the launch of a general entertainment channel by News Corporation.
Why should Choice, a general entertainment channel, be a public-service channel, while Arena, the arts channel, is commercial and so available only to subscribers?
She will be responsible for all Sky's "content" except sport, including a number of planned new channels: a second general entertainment channel to sit alongside Sky One, a version of the same channel to go on the new BBC-backed Freeview service which is to replace ITV Digital, and three new MTV-style music channels.
Last year Canada's gay channel split between an adult service and a general-programming channel.
"Much of today's programming targets men in a one-dimensional way ... tattoos or pawn shops or storage lockers or axes or hillbillies, " Esquire Channel's general manager Adam Stotsky said.
Saturn, and its strong, high-quality dealer network, is slated to become a sales distribution channel that is separate from General Motors.
But Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan told the BBC News Channel triple pay was "not quite what we've asked for", although it had been a negotiating point.
Ehud Olmert, Israel's outgoing prime minister, urged the UN's secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, to channel all such aid exclusively through the Palestinian Authority, which is run by Hamas's rival, Fatah, headed by Mahmoud Abbas.
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The company bought Bollywood music channel Imagine Showbiz this year from Turner General Entertainment India, a division of Turner Broadcasting.
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"We expect to announce soon the distribution of our channel, " said Gustavo Leme, general director of Fox International Channels in Brazil.
Ofcom suggested three "realistic" ways to fund the new public service channel, as well as public service broadcasting in general.
"We've said that needs to be looked at, and looked at in terms of value for money and cost, but we wouldn't want to see anybody being made compulsorily redundant, " Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said on the BBC News Channel.
There will be 10 live feeds from London 2012, running 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. (London time) (on some days, these will start earlier or finish later based on the competition schedule), plus a 24-hour broadcast of the Olympic News Channel, which includes summaries of the latest results, general reports on different events, and interviews with athletes.
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At one point, Fox News Channel's Shepard Smith was describing an interview that Fox had conducted with a doctor inside Massachusetts General Hospital who told of some gruesome injuries.
Keeping up the pressure on Pandora, the radio station giant Clear Channel this morning announced a deal to integrate its Internet-based iHeart Radio service into Chrysler and General Motors vehicles.
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