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Deal Targets Game Network.


AT&T Corp.'s Liberty Digital and Sony Pictures Entertainment agreed to a deal that could turn the Game Show Network into the first fully interactive television network, allowing viewers and Web suffers to compete in game shows against each other and against in-studio contestants.

Liberty Digital, the Los Angeles-based interactive television and Internet arm of AT&T's Liberty Media Corp., purchased half of the 5-year-old Culver cul·ver  
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 City-based network from Sony for $225 million in cash and $50 million in stock.

Most of the Game Show Network's lineup A criminal investigation technique in which the police arrange a number of individuals in a row before a witness to a crime and ask the witness to identify which, if any, of the individuals committed the crime.  consists of reruns of classic shows such as "Jeopardy jeopardy, in law, condition of a person charged with a crime and thus in danger of punishment. At common law a defendant could be exposed to jeopardy for the same offense only once; exposing a person twice is known as

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" and "Wheel of Fortune." But the network, which is currently available to 28.7 million cable subscribers throughout the country, has built a considerable amount of interactivity into its programming.
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Title Annotation:Liberty Digital; Sony Pictures Entertainment
Comment:Deal Targets Game Network.(Liberty Digital; Sony Pictures Entertainment)
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Aug 28, 2000
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