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- Scripps Networks Profits Rise 14 Percent, As Shopping Sites Struggle
- A day after Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) confirmed its $975 million deal to acquire 65 percent stake in the Travel Channel from Cox Communications, the cable network said profits rose 14 percent to $65.3 million as total revenue remained flat as the recession dragged on. The Cincinnati-based owner...
- External links 2009-11-06
- Online Video Tech Firm Clearleap Rolls Out Self-Serve VOD Marketplace
- We’ve yet to see a web series successfully make the leap onto the TV screen, but digital content companies do have an increasing number of ways to get their shows exposed to TV viewers. The latest is through video delivery technology firm Clearleap, which has launched a content...
- External links 2009-10-26
- News Corp. Seen As Frontrunner For Travel Channel
- News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) is now considered to be the favorite to win the Travel Channel auction, the FT reports, citing sources. Cox put a majority stake in the cable network up for sale in July. Back then, Scripps Network Interactive was considered the favorite. Both Scripps and a...
- External links 2009-10-22
- Web 2.0 Video: Comcast's Roberts Shows Off Streaming On Demand
- Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Chairman and CEO Brian Roberts used his appearance at Web 2.0 Tuesday to announce the national roll out of Comcast On Demand Online to Comcast cable subscribers by the end of the year. (The initial service will be only in home and for Comcast subscribers who...
- External links 2009-10-21
- Earnings: NBC Universal Profits Rise 13 Percent As Revenues Slide 20 Percent
- As usual, NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) merits only a footnote in parent General Electric’s earnings, but the media company is likely to draw more attention during the earnings call this time around considering the sale talks swirling around it. As its parent saw its profits fall 42 percent, largely...
- External links 2009-10-16
- Interview: Bloomberg's Pearlstine Says Buying BusinessWeek Matches Need?And Desire
- Last October, Bloomberg Chief Content Officer Norm Pearlstine told our Future of Business Media conference that the company was willing to look at acquisitions but, in the immediate future, wouldn’t be making “the major kind of acquisition that gets written about.” No, that took a year and it’s one...
- External links 2009-10-14
- New Premium Net Epix Pushing To Add Distribution Partners Before Oct.30 Launch
- Last month, Viacom (NYSE: VIA) CEO Phillipe Dauman confidently said he expected new premium network Epix to add more distribution partners before its fall launch but the Oct. 30 launch date announced this week still has only one launch partner: Verizon (NYSE: VZ) FiOS. The joint venture of Viacom,...
- External links 2009-10-13
- Discovery's Digital Head Kayse Tapped To Lead Ad Sales For Oprah's OWN Channel
- After a year and a half as Discovery Communications’ EVP of digital media sales, Kathy Kayse is being moved over to take over ad sales for the company’s forthcoming cable channel, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. Kayse came to Discovery from AOL (NYSE: TWX)—she had been a 24-year Time...
- External links 2009-10-12
- Nada Stirratt Defects From MTV To MySpace As Chief Revenue Officer
- Nada Stirratt is leaving her post as EVP, Digital Advertising for MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) to take on the role of chief revenue officer at MySpace, MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka reports. Her hiring comes about two months after Jeff Berman exited MySpace as sales and marketing head, after the company...
- External links 2009-10-09
- Industry Moves: Hearst Adds Four Execs To Large Board
- Privately held Hearst Corp. has added four executives to its board of directors: George R. Hearst III, publisher of the Albany Times Union, and the son of Hearst Chairman George R. Hearst, Jr.; Richard Malloch, president of Hearst Business Media and SVP of Hearst Corp.; Scott Sassa, president of...
- External links 2009-10-05
- MTV Minisodes Series Valemont Launches?With Cameos By Verizon
- MTV Networks’ latest experiment with the minisodes format, Valemont, kicks off on-air and online Tuesday with Verizon (NYSE: VZ) cell phones playing a pivotal role in the plot as well as the marketing. For six consecutive weeks, two-and-a-half minute episodes of Valemont, a drama centered around a woman’s search...
- External links 2009-09-27
- Verizon Might Be Considering DirecTV Bid
- Verizon (NYSE: VZ) just might be ready to make a move on DirecTV (NYSE: DTV), the WSJ speculates, as the telco turns its concentration to video as its “core product.” Although Verizon made huge strides on rolling out its FiOS video and Internet service over the past three years—it’s...
- External links 2009-09-25
- Cablevision Debuts Sub-Only MSG Varsity VOD Channel Online
- Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) is trying a new tack with the launch of MSG Varsity, a VOD channel that doubles as an online video site. However, unless you’re a Cablevision subscriber, you can’t legally access it. The channel, which is all about local high school, is geared to parents who...
- External links 2009-09-25
- Media Industry Research Group Preps First RFP; NBCU's Wurtzel Stepping Aside As Point Man?
- The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement , the research initiative started last month by major TV networks, agencies and advertisers, is moving forward with its first request for proposals just as it undergoes a leadership shift, B&C reports.The group is looking to research set-top-box data as part of its...
- External links 2009-10-26
- A New Financial Model For News, Straight From The Cable Industry
- Amos Gelb is an associate professor at George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs. Previously, he was a television producer at CNN and ABC, among other places.The challenge facing the news business today is now so worked-over that any edges have become smooth. The well-worn dilemma: more...
- External links 2009-10-28
- OWN Taps Comcast's Singer To Manage Distribution, Sales Strategy
- OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, a joint venture between the media personality and Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA), is putting some finishing touches on its executive level staff. Former Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) exec Allan Singer is the latest hire. He has been named EVP of Distribution and Strategy for OWN,...
- External links 2009-10-30
- CBS Call: Redstone: Light At The End Of The Tunnel
- [In progress] Before turning the call over to CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) president and CEO Les Moonves, Sumner Redstone, the company’s executive chairman, CBS Corp. heaped praise on the company’s efforts to manage the downturn and sounded relieved to say “there is finally light at the end of the...
- External links 2009-11-05
- Scripps Networks To Acquire 65 Percent Of Travel Channel; Deal Valued At $1.05 Billion
- It’s official: Scripps Networks (NYSE: SNI) has a $1.05 billion deal to acquire a 65 percent stake in the Travel Channel from Cox Communications. Delays earnings report by a day. Release.More to come by Staci D. Kramer
- External links 2009-11-05
- News Corp. Isn't Talking To NBC, Isn't Talking About Travel And Other Earnings Call Highlights
- Rupert Murdoch knocked down at least one acquisition rumor—one he helped give life to at the News Corp annual meeting—and left one standing during the company’s fiscal Q1 earnings call. Speaking from Sydney, the chairman and CEO of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). said: “We’re not interested in NBC as...
- External links 2009-11-05
- Murdoch: Digital Media Is Not Meeting Minimum For Google Search Payments
- Work in progress: Rupert Murdoch told analysts the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). newspaper and television businesses are having a “great November” but he also added a note of caution by describing the recovery as still “a little fragile.” He barely spoke of the Digital Media Group, a bragging point...
- External links 2009-11-04
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