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Mar 24 2009 8:55am EDT

Idle Chatter: Sunday Ticket, Advance Retrenching

-The NFL and DirecTV have extended their rights deal for another four years, through 2014. The satellite operator will pay $4 billion -- a 43 percent increase over the previous level -- to offer every game to its NFL Sunday Ticket subscribers. [WSJ]

-Advance Publications is freezing pensions and enacting mandatory 10-day furloughs at most of its newspapers, while three of its Michigan dailies are cutting back publication to three days a week, and a fourth, the Ann Arbor News, is switching to digital-only publication. (Advance is also the parent of Condé Nast.) [E&P]

-Hachette Filipacchi Media is trying to sell its enthusiast magazines, which include American Photo, Cycling and Boating. [Ad Age]

-Andy Richter is touchingly grateful that Conan O'Brien asked him to be his sidekick once again on The Tonight Show. [NYP]

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