The New York Times
Bloomberg Television has signed Willow Bay, the former CNN business anchor, as a special correspondent for next week’s Milken Institute Global Conference.
The short-term hiring of Ms. Bay, the wife of the Disney chief executive Robert A. Iger, is bound to renew speculation about a potential pairing between Bloomberg and Disney’s ABC News division. A partnership of some sort has been the subject of widespread speculation in the television news business recently.
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David Rhodes, the head of U.S. TV operations for Bloomberg, noted in an interview Wednesday, that “we have relationships with a lot of different networks,” and said Ms. Bay’s stint on the business news channel was unrelated to that. More…