AOL TW looks to deal Court, Comedy stakes.(Court TV, Comedy Central)

From: Multichannel News | Date: September 16, 2002| Author: Farrell, Mike; Moss, Linda | Copyright information

Comedy Central and Court TV are stepchildren with a common parent: AOL Time Warner Inc. And the prospect of the media giant trying to sell its 50 percent stakes in both networks now looms larger than ever.

AOL Time Warner has said it may unload some nonstrategic, unspecified assets in order to clean up its balance sheet. As part of that effort, AOL Time Warner is in very preliminary talks with Viacom Inc. about selling its half of Comedy Central to Mel Karmazin's media k...

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