Idol Headlines for 03/26/10 – The Evening Edition

CKX Deal: What’s American Idol Worth? A lot less, it appears, than what it might have fetched two years ago. Robert F.X. Sillerman, chief executive of CKX Inc., the owner of the blockbuster television enterprise “American Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance,” is nearing an offer to buy out CKX for roughly $6 a share, sources tell the Wall Street Journal. Sillerman and another insider offered $13.75 a share for CKX in 2007, but the deal was scuttled by the credit...

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