The cable-TV spinoff being put together by Comcast - which is called Versant and will include USA Network, Syfy, Oxygen, E!, Golf Channel, CNBC and MSNBC - should be well set financially to start.

Over the succeeding years, News Corp offloaded its coupon-insert businesses, News America Marketing, as well as its Australian satellite-television company, Foxtel. It has also made headway in ...

New "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Llamas worked for Lester Holt at 21. Plans for his dream role replacing him involve "a lot ...