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- Quincy Smith Leaving CBS In January; Signs Multi-Year Deal As Adviser
- It’s official. Deal maker Quincy Smith is leaving as CEO of CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) after three years to start a consulting business with CBS as the first client. The news, broken first by Kara Swisher, is being announced by CBS this afternoon. Neil Ashe will remain as president,...
- External links 2009-10-28
- Last.fm To Take Over CBS HD Broadcast Stations In Four Markets
- While most radio stations are looking for ways to expand their online presence, CBS Interactive Music Group is doing the opposite with social music site Last.fm. by giving the brand an all new station to be broadcast on the company’s HD multicast stations. Last.fm will effectively take over CBS...
- External links 2009-09-11
- CBSSports And Sports Illustrated Strike Print, Digital Content Deal
- The difficult media landscape is encouraging more content companies to start sharing resources, and today’s big partnership comes from CBSSports.com and Sports Illustrated. The two will mix and distribute each other’s content across their online properties, as well as in Sports Illustrated magazine. The deal also includes CBS Interactive’s...
- External links 2009-08-31
- CBS Interactive's Smith: Authentication's Not Around The Corner
- The concept of “TV Everywhere” won’t reach critical mass until perhaps 2014 and even that date is uncertain, said CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) CEO Quincy Smith, speaking on the B&C/Multichannel News’ sponsored TV Everywhere and Anywhere panel at the Paley Center. The main problems preventing wider adoption of cable...
- External links 2009-08-18
- Earnings Call: Tweeting CBS: Moonves: Improvement 'Very Steady, Very Real'
- From my live Twitter coverage sdkstl of the CBS (NYSE: CBS) earnings call featuring Chairman Sumner Redstone and CEO Leslie Moonves, outgoing CFO Fred Reynolds, incoming CFO Joe Ianniello: ยป Moonves: improvement has been very steady, very real. ... Q2 better than Q1, Q3 better than Q2. Signs of...
- External links 2009-08-06
- CBS Relaunching TV.com; Hoping Finally To Become A Video Player; Aiming Beyond Hulu, Not At It
- *CBS* Interactive is relaunching TV.com, hoping to transform the well-named site known for its TV-related community and user-generated content into a serious video destination, paidContent has learned. The full-scale relaunch with new content partners is slated for January but the cosmetic changes will start this week with a new...
- External links 2008-12-15
- CBS Interactive Reorg: More Info and Merging of Some Units; Internal Memo
- We reported first on the CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) reorg and layoffs last night, and since then, it has been confirmed by the company, and some other bits of info have been trickling out. Now, from the internal memo sent out earlier today by Qunicy Smith (posted here at...
- External links 2008-12-12
- Last.fm Lays Off Around 20 Staff, Part Of CBS/CNET Integration
- Last night, Last.fm staff in London were celebrating their Christmas party at a venue complete with hot tub. Through today's hangover, they heard about 20 percent are being disposed of as parent CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) restructures in a cost-cutting move. CBS, which splashed out $280 million in May...
- External links 2008-12-11
- CBS Interactive Confirms CBSNews.com/CNET Newsroom Combo; No Word On Layoffs
- CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) is confirming paidContent's earlier story that it is merging the newsrooms belonging to CBSNews.com and CNET into one. However, an emailed statement offered no specifics on layoffs or how the websites would be altered. The CBSI statement obliquely states the integration process between the two...
- External links 2008-12-11
- CBS Interactive To Merge CBSNews.com and CNET Newsrooms; Some Layoffs
- CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), under pressure to cut costs after what now seems like an even more costly acquisition of CNET, is announcing some more restructuring tomorrow, we have learned from reliable sources late tonight, and as part of it, will be merging CBSNews.com and CNET newsrooms. Not clear:...
- External links 2008-12-11
- @ UBS Media Week: Moonves: CBS Wouldn't Buy CNET In This Market; ''Highly Doubt' Any Acquisitions
- CBS (NYSE: CBS) CEO Leslie Moonves raved about the value of the CNET acquisition and the integration since the merger with CBS Interactive, but told investors he wouldn't make the same deal today. "The CNET deal was in May.?Life was very different. We would not be doing that acquisition...
- External links 2008-12-10
- CBSSports.com Streaming College Football Online, Mobile; Silverlight Tryout For March Madness?
- A heavy Saturday coming up for CBSSports.com, including streaming the Southeastern Conference SEC championship between unbeaten Alabama and would-be giant-killer Florida. (Alabama is ranked #1 across the polls; Florida is ranked #2 by AP.) The game (4 p.m., ET) is the culmination of the network's first season of...
- External links 2008-12-06
- First Look: Zune, Twitter, Facebook And Last.fm On Xbox
- Four months after announcing the features, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) added social networking and music radio functionality to its Xbox 360 console on Tuesday, along with the first European foray for its Zune brand see earlier reports from Tameka and I. Here are my initial explorations with each new service…Last.fm...
- External links 2009-11-18
- Video: Quincy Smith on Hulu: The Service is Freakin' Badass, But?
- Quincy Smith, the outgoing head of CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), spoke last week at NewTeeVee Live conference in SF, where he spoke about not so much on his own future plans with his consultancy, but the future of online video from his perspective. A great line about promo value...
- External links 2009-11-15
- Five Media Deals I'd Like To See Happen In 2010, Round 2
- Mark May is a principal and senior internet and digital media research analyst at Needham & Company, LLC, a full-service growth-company investment bank.Ken Sonenclar’s Leading Voices piece on Thursday titled “Five Media Deals I’d Like To See Happen In 2010” was thoroughly thought-provoking. Here are my own thoughts around...
- External links 2009-11-13
- Industry Moves Roundup: Twitter; Discovery; CBS Interactive
- —Twitter: Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) senior research scientist Utkarsh Srivastava—whose expertise is in building large-scale distributed systems—is joining the microblogging service in an unspecified role, Louis Gray reports. He confirms the move—on Twitter.—Discovery Communications: Todd Zander has been promoted to vice president of digital media distribution, tasked with expanding the...
- External links 2009-11-11
- Display Ad Spending Thaws, CBS Interactive Promises A Move Beyond The Banner Ad
- Recent reports have suggested that display advertising is experiencing a tentative comeback, which is partially being attributed to the adoption of larger ad formats over the past few months by publishers inside and outside the Online Publishers Association. CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), which posted 14 percent decline in revenues...
- External links 2009-11-09
- Leslie Moonves, Quincy Smith And CBS Three Years, A Couple Of Billion Later
- Quincy Smith came to CBS in late 2006 to make deals and make them he did—with just about everyone but Hulu. He had been advising CEO Leslie Moonves on corporate internet strategy as an investment banker for Allen & Co. In an interview with paidContent this afternoon about “the...
- External links 2009-10-28
- More Last.fm Old Timers Jumping From CBS' Ship
- Several key Last.fmers who have been with the social music site since its early days will follow their founders out the door in the next few weeks, as CBS (NYSE: CBS) continues to struggle with the integration of its $280 million acquisition.—Head of music Jonas Woost pictured, who has...
- External links 2009-09-25
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- Industry Moves: Patrick Keane Out Of CBS Interactive Position
- Patrick Keane, the former Googler who was the EVP and CM at CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), has been transitioning out of his position, and hasn't been in office in the last month, sources have confirmed, following an earlier report from Mediamemo. He was brought in early last year by...
- External links 2008-12-09
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