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The Morning Fix: Porn biz losing ground; ‘G.I. Joe’ opens big; Imus talking to Fox Business; Tina Fey will miss Ben Silverman

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After the coffee, before reliving the Yankees’ sweep of the Red Sox

So much for staying power: Traditional media isn’t the only business being challenged by the Internet. The adult entertainment industry, usually the first to figure out how to make lemonade out of lemons, is struggling to create new revenue streams in the digital age, reports Ben Fritz of the Los Angeles Times. Talent is feeling the pinch as well. One star, Savannah Stern, has gone from driving a Mercedes to her parents’ old Chevy. Ouch.

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‘G.I. Joe’ opens big: Paramount’s ‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra’ took in $56.2 million here and another $44.1 million overseas. That’s the good news. The bad news is bad buzz. Nonetheless, don’t be surprised when the sequel comes out. ‘Julie & Julia,’ the Sony Pictures female comedy opened strong at $20.1 million. Analysis from the Los Angeles Times, Variety, and the Hollywood Reporter.

Don Imus to Fox Business Network? Radio personality Don Imus, whose morning show is also telecast on RFD-TV, a small rural cable channel, is in talks to move the show to News Corp.’s Fox Business Network, according to All Your TV, an industry website. MSNBC used to simulcast the Imus show but dropped it after his controversial comments about the women’s basketball team at Rutgers. Here’s our take.

The road to pay: New York Times columnist David Carr weighs in on News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s aggressive push to a cash-for-content online model and the challenges he will face. Meanwhile Times print media reporter Richard Perez-Pena says in Seattle that the Seattle Times is finding life without its competitor, the Post-Intelligencer, uh, profitable.

Upfront tallies: We promise these will be the last links about the upfront. Today, the Wall Street Journal delivers its take on the TV advertising market for the fall season, which is so weak the networks are holding back lots of inventory to sell later in the year. Company Town offers it’s own take on the flaws in that strategy while Advertising Age details what each network took in.

At least one person at NBC was sad to see Ben Silverman go: ‘30 Rock’ creator and star Tina Fey tells Broadcasting & Cable that she will miss former entertainment chief Ben Silverman. ‘Anyone who left us on the air is all right,’ she said.

Inside the Los Angeles Times: MichaelHiltzik on Barry Diller’s track record.

-- Joe Flint

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