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May 23 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: Weather Channel, Media General, more

-Either Time Warner or NBC Universal (with an assist from Blackstone Group) will probably buy the Weather Channel, for a price south of $4 billion. [WSJ]

-Media General, the newspaper and TV station group, is cutting its workforce by 11 percent, or 750 jobs. [BW]

-Local luxury publisher Richard Ekstract is selling his four magazines, including Hamptons Cottages & Gardens. [NYP]

-Here's the official skinny on who's taking buyouts at the Washington Post. [WaPo]. □

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