Executives involved in the deal said that as of Tuesday , Mr. Murdoch and Peter Chernin , the News Corporation 's president , were informed by the head of their newly created interactive media division that IGN , with whom they had held intermittent talks since March , was on the verge of being sold to Viacom .
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