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- New DirecTv Emerges From Combo With Liberty Entertainment
- It’s taken years to unravel the tracking stocks and ownerships stemming from Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA), but the new, more-than-a satellite-company DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) is ready for its debut following shareholder votes combining it with Liberty Entertainment. The fine points of a deal involving John Malone are, as usual,...
- External links 2009-11-20
- Earnings Call: Comcast's Roberts: Canoe Ventures Revenues Expected By 2010
- Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) executives continued to highlight the importance of their digital plans during the Q2 earnings call. Deals with Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) for the rollout of its 4G service were highlighted as well as its All Digital initiative. Brian Roberts also discussed the progress made on the cable...
- External links 2009-08-06
- Earnings: Comcast Profits Gain 53 Percent With Tax Boost
- It looks like the recession is good for the cable industry. Although Cablevision's recent earnings report was a bit mixed, Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) reported a pretty strong Q2, as profits rose 53 percent to $967 million ($0.33 per share) boosted by favorable tax settlements and revenues were up 4.5...
- External links 2009-08-06
- Earnings Call: Tweeting Murdoch: News Corp. Plans To Start Charging For More News Sites In FY10
- Some of my live Twitter coverage of the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). FY09/Q4 earnings call : » Murdoch: Following 'tumultuous, unprecedented' year ''worst may be behind us, no clear signs yet' » Murdoch reprises of 'content isn't free' refrain, promises to charge for all news sites with WSJ.com/DJ as...
- External links 2009-08-05
- Earnings: Discovery Profits Rise, As Revenues, Ad Dollars Remain Flat
- Coincidentally, I'm sure, Discovery (NSDQ: DISAB) Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) earnings comes out right in the middle of the cable programmer's heavily promoted "Shark Week" on its flagship channel. Considering how badly the other sharks have been faring this season, Discovery may not be "Jaws" but it's no tuna either....
- External links 2009-08-04
- Oprah's Harpo Films Drops ABC For HBO
- Move over ABC. Harpo Films, the original film division of Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions, has found an edgier, less commercially-cluttered platform for its movies: HBO. The AP says Harpo Films and HBO have brokered a three-year deal to make movies, documentaries and TV series. Financial terms were not disclosed,...
- External links 2008-12-17
- Disney Forms JV To Launch Russian TV Channel
- Even though the global financial meltdown has been affecting Russia as well, media companies still see enough growth potential to make entering that market worthwhile. The Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company has entered into a joint venture with Russian cable company Media-One to create a free-to-air Disney channel. The...
- External links 2008-12-16
- ESPN Web Overhaul About Done; 'Less Is More' Design Aimed At Advertisers
- ESPN.com's year-long revamp is finally ready today and set for its formal debut on January. Aside from emphasizing video and smarter search, as execs have said over the past few months in previews, execs at the Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) sports unit tells the NYT that the site's over-arching...
- External links 2008-12-16
- Google Quietly Tries Brokering Deals With ISPs To Get Priority Access
- Congress has failed to pass legislation regarding so-called "Net Neutrality," and now the issue is again top of mind as Internet providers seeking preferential treatment; network operators considering a tiered approach, and once-staunch defenders beginning to soften their stance on the matter. This time, it appears Google (NSDQ: GOOG),...
- External links 2008-12-15
- Layoffs Roundup: DivX; Fuse; ReelzChannel; Classmates.com; Exponential Interactive
- -- DivX: The company has cut 21 people from its workforce, or just under 10 percent of its total staff, TechCrunch reported and NewTeeVee confirmed. The layoffs were across multiple departments and of of course, as a DivX (NSDQ: DIVX) spokesperson says, were "driven by the economic environment." Last...
- External links 2008-12-15
- Maybe You Can Quit Your Day Job By Making YouTube Videos
- Or in YouTube producer Michael Buckley's case, you can quit your day job and get a dream job. Buckley quit his job as a music promoter after earning $100,000 from YouTube ads on his a thrice-a-week giddy celebrity rant What The Buck?, he tells NYT. Since he first started...
- External links 2008-12-11
- @ UBS Media Week: Viacom's Dauman: No Acquisition Plans For Awhile; Waiting For Mobile
- Asked about Viacom's $8.5 billion in debt, Viacom (NYSE: VIA) President & CEO Philippe Dauman told attendees at the UBS Global Media and Communications PDF conference that the company is focused on organic growth and tended to avoid acquisitions for the past two years. The most notable one during...
- External links 2008-12-08
- @ UBS Media Week: TWC's Britt: Cable Will Do Better Than Rest Of The Economy?But Not By Much
- The conventional wisdom has been that as the crushing economic downturn continues to squeeze consumers, cable TV will benefit as more people opt for home entertainment. Glenn Britt, president and CEO of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Cable, was certainly happy to promote that view during a Q&A at the...
- External links 2008-12-08
- CNN Downplays Competition With AP On Wire Service; Less Than 30 Daily Stories To Be Made Available
- The newspaper editors who were invited to CNN's Newspaper Summit, which showcased the cable channel's new wire service this past week, have given the Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) company high marks for reaching out. But many appear to be been less than impressed with the small amount of stories...
- External links 2008-12-08
- Ad Industry Roundup: Google; Widgets; Nielsen; Auto-Creativity
- -- Google TV Ads' Hallmark moment: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV Ads has convinced cable nets Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel to set aside a portion of their respective inventories for the search giant's self-serve, targeted ads system on EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS). The partnership comes just as the family-friendly...
- External links 2008-12-03
- AP Acknowledges Threat From CNN's Wire Service; But Challenger Still 'Needs Improvement'
- As CNN prepares to go head-to-head with the Associated Press when it launches its new wire service, the cable news outfit will have to prove to newspaper editors that it can transfer its cable TV credibility to breaking print news. A long piece in the NYT takes a look...
- External links 2008-12-01
- Earnings: DirecTV: Profit Drops 11 Percent; Exploring Version Of 'TV Everywhere'
- DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) managed its second-best quarter for subscriber additions in four years, giving the satellite company some bragging rights. But that didn't translate into a great Q2 when it comes to making money: net income dropped 11 percent to $407 million compared with Q208 and the company missed...
- External links 2009-08-07
- Latino Cable Network Si TV Raises $8.7 Million Funding
- Latino-centric cable and online network Si TV has raised $8.75 million in funding, according to an SEC filing, with plans to raise nearly $6 million more. The network raised roughly $60 million in funding from big backers like EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), Columbia Capital and Rho...
- External links 2009-08-07
- Discovery Opts In To Comcast On Demand Broadband Trial
- Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) is putting some full-length programs online but sticking to its guns when it comes to free broadband access. CEO David Zaslav has said repeatedly that Discovery's networks will protect their subscription value with an clips-oriented strategy for free broadband access. The news that Discovery is...
- External links 2009-08-13
- 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
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