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Sep 29 2008 8:44am EDT

Idle Chatter: 'Runway' Rebuff; Sirius Savings, more

-NBC has won a preliminary injunction that will prevent Project Runway from moving from Bravo to Lifetime for the time being. [Portfolio]

-Mel Karmazin says he wants to make Sirius "the Wal-Mart" of radio advertising: "[W]e will be the low-rate provider." [Ad Age]

-AT&T is switching its satellite-TV provider to DirecTV, jilting Dish Network. [WSJ]

-Three men have been arrested in London on suspicion of fire-bombing the offices of the British publisher of a book about the Prophet Mohammad's wife Aisha. Random House canceled a deal to publish the book in the U.S., fearing it would incite violence. [AFP]

-The Wall Street Journal is getting into the wine business. [NYT]

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