When we last checked in with *Cisco* Eos, the white label social network platform was still a one-chord band of sorts, with Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) as its only customer and a relatively small one at that. WMG’s expansion in August took its Eos use from two artists to…

It’s official: Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) will acquire a 65 percent stake in the Travel Channel from Cox Communications. The deal works like this: the two companies form a joint venture; Cox puts in the Travel Channel, valued at $975 million; Scripps contributes $181 million in cash; the JV…

Rupert Murdoch knocked down at least one acquisition rumor—one he helped give life to at the News Corp annual meeting—and left one standing during the company’s fiscal Q1 earnings call. Speaking from Sydney, the chairman and CEO of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). said:  “We’re not interested in NBC as such…

Bids for Travel Channel, in the middle of a bidding process started by its parent Cox, have come in “substantially ahead of initial expectations,” according to FT, citing sources. The bids indicate that the channel could be valued at $800 million or more, higher than the $600 milion - $700…

The sale process of Cox-owned Travel Channel is heating up, as the first round of bids have come in: among them, the obvious names of News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) and NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) are there, according to Bloomberg. Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) may bid…

Cox Enterprises, the Atlanta-based diversified media company, has sold off three of its newspapers: Waco Tribune-Herald to Robinson Media Company and The Daily Sentinel and The Nickel (Grand Junction, Colo.) to Grand Junction Media, which is owned by Seaton Publishing Co. This comes as Cox Communications, a subsidiary of parent…