From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Claude Bratessor Ackner, and this is The Business.

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This week on the business, the Television Academy changes its Emmy rules to make them more fair and less embarrassing.

And can't tell the difference between a voice booth and a phone booth?

You will when we're done giving voiceover the once over.

But first, it's the Hollywood News caravan.

Better than Botox, it's the business from NPR.

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It was another week of old media rushing into the arms of new media.

NBC Universal and News Corp jumped into bed last week with several major internet companies to distribute their TV shows, video clips, and films

online, hoping, for once, to control their programming and stifle competition from YouTube.

Rather than birth a brand-new portal online, the NBC Universal and News Corp shows will be available

through several websites that already do brisk traffic, including Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft's MSN, and MySpace.

But the problem with being a media swinger is that sometimes the wife gets jealous.

Disney thought it was being really clever when it made a deal to distribute its movies online.

But now they're being sued by Stars Entertainment because the cable channel says they promised their

films to stars exclusively. As these companies try to expand into the new media universe,

they'd better not forget that old-timey saying. You got to dance with the one that brung you.

Finally, some happy legal news from Malaysia last week. Lucky and Flo, the Motion Picture

Association's DVD-sniffing Black Labrador retrievers, led investigators to warehouses filled with

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