Link Scoop 3/2/08

How did I manage to miss Comcast’s admission that it paid people to attend an FCC hearing where net neutrality was discussed. The company says these people were “merely saving seats for employees,” while others disagreed. Either way, it just comes off as odd, no? [via John Gruber]
The WaPo’s Paul Farhi details how WMAL host Chris Core’s longtime presence on Washington’s WMAL ended on Friday with the station telling him just after his program that he was all done there. The move was part of station owner Citadel Broadcasting’s “massive cost-cutting campaign.
New York’s Newsday publication is cutting ~120 positions due to “poor advertising revenue,” the Associated Press reported on Saturday.
The Tennessean’s Don Jeffrey writes that Universal Music Group is set to buy the music assets of Univision.

Tags: · chris core, citadel broadcasting, comcast, cost cutting, fcc, net neutrality, newsday, universal music group, univision, wmal

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