Idol Headlines for 10/05/10

Rival CKX bidders wooing Apollo as partner Private-equity giant Apollo Management may be smack dab in the middle of the hunt for CKX Inc., the entertainment company behind “American Idol,” The Post has learned. Leon Black’s Apollo Management has held meetings with two rival bidders: Allen Shapiro, president and chief executive of Mosaic Media Group, and Robert Sillerman, CKX’s founder and former chairman and chief executive officer, according to sources familiar with th...

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