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Nielsen Media Research says Fuse has the highest concentration of 12- to 34-year-old viewe...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>showbuzz</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/01/28/showbuzz/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/01/28/showbuzz/index.html</guid><description>While training for the boxing drama "Million Dollar Baby," Hilary Swank was nearly TKO'd -- by a foot infection.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:46:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Take Control of Your Intellectual Property</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/12/01/8192535/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/12/01/8192535/index.htm</guid><description>New Power Generation—the name of your band, your website, your record label—is particularly fitting. How have you managed to gain so much power over the record industry where other stars have faile...</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2004 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Kerry, Bush daughters booed on MTV</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/30/candidates.daughters/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/30/candidates.daughters/index.html</guid><description>Reaching out to young Americans at MTV's Video Music Awards Sunday night, the daughters of President Bush and his Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry were met by loud cheers and jeers.</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>showbuzz</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/08/20/showbuzz/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/08/20/showbuzz/index.html</guid><description>Gov. Mike Easley proclaimed Saturday as Fantasia Barrino Day in North Carolina to mark her first major singing appearance in her home state since winning the "American Idol" title in May.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>MTV's Passage To India The country's vast middle class is a tantalizing market. Here's what one company has learned.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/08/09/377904/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/08/09/377904/index.htm</guid><description>Seen from afar--say, from the executive suites atop Viacom's building in Times Square or NBC's Rockefeller Center headquarters or Disney's base camp in Burbank--India looks like a great place  to b...</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2004 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>showbuzz</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/06/28/showbuzz/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/06/28/showbuzz/index.html</guid><description>"Fahrenheit 9/11" filmmaker Michael Moore called the opening weekend numbers for his documentary "mind-boggling" and credited his political opponents for boosting ticket sales.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>MTV to launch gay network in 2005</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/05/25/news/fortune500/mtv_gay_network/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/05/25/news/fortune500/mtv_gay_network/index.htm</guid><description>MTV Networks said Tuesday it will launch a new cable network that carries programs primarily aimed at gay and lesbian viewers.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2004 18:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gay-per-View</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/05/01/368235/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/05/01/368235/index.htm</guid><description>Why do media moguls think pink is so fab? 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He came out ready to buy a new mobile phone from an upstart cell-phone pro...</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2003 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>MTV Films: It's A Sleeper</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/04/29/321996/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/04/29/321996/index.htm</guid><description>This summer Hollywood is all about bigness: Big stars, big budgets, big sequels, big effects, and big marketing plans. Sony has Spider-Man and Men in Black 2, New Line has the third Austin Powers f...</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2002 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Music Men Are Out Of Tune The big record companies say they want to sell songs online. So why are their services designed to</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/06/11/304638/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/06/11/304638/index.htm</guid><description>Back in the early '80s, a shoestring operation called MTV came up with the idea of a cable network that would play rock music videos 24 hours a day. Advertisers yawned. Cable system owners scoffed....</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2001 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>CBS Is Touched by an Angel--Viacom</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/09/04/286809/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/09/04/286809/index.htm</guid><description>The cable television business, until recently, has brought nothing but headaches to CBS. Twice CBS launched cable networks that flopped: CBS Cable, a high-culture network created by William S. Pale...</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2000 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Real World Creator: Some Reality Bites</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/08/14/285603/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/08/14/285603/index.htm</guid><description>Who's to blame for all this reality-based TV? It would be easy to single out the network heads. 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Could it be that he spent most of his life away from the media glare, running a not-very-glamorous chain of movie theater...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 1999 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ranking The 50 Most Powerful Women FORTUNE'S FIRST             ANNUAL LOOK AT THE WOMEN WHO MOST INFLUENCE CORPORATE AMERICA.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/10/12/249277/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/10/12/249277/index.htm</guid><description>BEHIND THE LIST </description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 1998 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>I'm Okay, You're Type A There are two kinds of people             in the world: those who think a Palm Pilot is a business      </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/04/13/240863/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/04/13/240863/index.htm</guid><description>I was sitting at my desk yesterday, but what else is new. This young fellow who works for me was sitting on the other side of it, but so what. And I was putting a paper clip at the top of a sheaf o...</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 1998 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Interactive TV Has Arrived</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/02/02/237203/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/02/02/237203/index.htm</guid><description>Get this, TV-aholics. This spring, those of you who get cable and live in certain cities across the U.S.--Chicago, Los Angeles, and St. Louis among them--will see a small revolution onscreen. If yo...</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 1998 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>BETTING ON THE BOOMERS THE GENERATION THAT USHERED IN             THE BEATLES, AND THEN THE MINIVAN, IS GETTING OLDER AND       </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/12/25/208784/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/12/25/208784/index.htm</guid><description>ON JANUARY 1 the first baby-boomer turns 50. From then on boomers will plunge into their 50s at the rate of over 10,000 a day for the next ten years. Like a glacier inching across time, this massiv...</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 1995 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>TEENS THE MOST GLOBAL MARKET OF ALL They have moxie, money, and astonishing similarities in taste. 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You're probably too old or too harried or too stuck on your own...</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>AMERICA'S HOTTEST EXPORT: POP CULTURE The world's insatiable appetite for Hollywood and rock &amp;amp; roll is propping up the U.S. </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/12/31/74523/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/12/31/74523/index.htm</guid><description>INDUSTRIAL HARD GUYS like Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, and George Westinghouse probably wouldn't take much heart from what we're about to report, but there is good news for the U.S. these days on t...</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 1990 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Russian rush to rock</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/03/30/68847/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/03/30/68847/index.htm</guid><description>Will glasnost know no bounds? Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of opening Russia to Western influences has legitimized whispers of capitalism and even democracy. Now the big shocker: Soviet bureaucracy i...</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>PEOPLE TO WATCH</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/01/19/68583/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/01/19/68583/index.htm</guid><description>Anthony Dub </description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Viacom buys MTV</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66485/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66485/index.htm</guid><description>$ Viacom International consolidated its position in the fast-shifting tangle of cable television by buying the half of Showtime/The Movie Channel it didn't already own and all of MTV Networks, prod...</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 1985 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>