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Despite having some of the most popular entertainment brands out there — American Idol and So You Think You can Dance — investors in CKX (CKXE) haven’t exactly benefited from that massive popularity over the past few years. The only reason the stock has bounced up recently was its announcement last month that it has [...]

The classic image of the hard-charging American CEO is pretty well summed up by that old cliché of giving 110%. But stereotypes, of course, can be misleading. Consider William R. Fitzgerald, chairman and chief executive of Ascent Media Group (ASCMA), who has just agreed to give his company 80%. That’s 80% of his time, and [...]

First, we’ll cut to the chase: Chesapeake Energy (CHK) doesn’t seem to be buying any more $12.1-million antique map collections. Despite that, there’s still plenty to see in the proxy that the company filed a few minutes before the SEC’s 5:30 p.m. filing deadline on Friday. Chesapeake, of course, is something of a frequent flier here [...]