The Ticker: CBS/TBS, Lachlan, Cantor…

> “CBS News and Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) have announced a multi-year extension of their longstanding newsgathering relationship,” TV Week reports.

> FOXNews.com: “Lachlan Murdoch, a son of Rupert Murdoch (search) and a possible heir to his father’s leadership of News Corp., resigned his executive position with the company Friday and said he’d move to Australia with his family.”

> NY Daily News has green room gossip: “Rudy Giuliani and Bernie Kerik greeted each other warmly backstage at ‘Fox and Friends.’ Though the former mayor and his ex-commish don’t speak as often, Kerik must feel his Homeland Security scandal has cooled.”

> “To TV people,” CBS’s broadband plan “is a Big Deal,” Andrew Cantor writes in USA Today “But in terms of changing things, this Big Deal is pretty much a whoop-dee-do.” (Via Lost Remote)

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