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- Redstone Family Clash: How Will It Affect Viacom and CBS?
- Julia Boorstin submits: The Redstone family just can't seem to get along. Sumner Redstone, the chairman of Viacom VIA and CBS Corp. CBS is once again battling with his daughter Shari Redstone, CEO of privately held National Amusements. The father and daughter have long clashed. He controls 80 percent...
- External links 2008-10-17
- Carl Icahn Increases Stake in Lions Gate: Will He Agitate for Change?
- Julia Boorstin submits: Lions Gate LGF stock has been trading around a 52-week low during the recent financial upheaval, presenting an attractive opportunity to Carl Icahn. The activist shareholder upped his stake in this company to 9.17 percent "in the belief that the shares were undervalued" according to a...
- External links 2008-10-22
- Why Did Lions Gate Vice Chair Sell Shares?
- Julia Boorstin submits: Carl Icahn's recent increased investment in Lions Gate LGF shares isn't the only news resulting from the company's low stock price. On October 10, the stock dipped below $6, triggering a margin call by Merrill Lynch for Vice Chairman Michael Burns, selling 672,000 shares of his...
- External links 2008-10-22
- Will Ticketmaster's New Acquisition Help Beat Live Nation?
- Julia Boorstin submits: Ticketmaster TKTM is taking its business in a whole new direction. Yesterday the ticket behemoth agreed to acquire a majority interest in Front Line Management Inc, arguably the most powerful artist-management company in the music industry, with the likes of artists from Christina Aguilera to Neil...
- External links 2008-10-24
- Comcast Earnings Show Recession Resistance
- Julia Boorstin submits: Despite the pullback in consumer spending and steeper than ever competition, Comcast CMCSA on Wednesday reported remarkable growth in its third quarter. The largest U.S. cable company showed a 38 percent increase in third quarter profit, and an important indicator of its resilience: 7 percent...
- External links 2008-10-30
- CBS's Massive Third Quarter Write Down
- Julia Boorstin submits: Media Giant [[CBS]] swung to a $12.5 billion dollar loss in the third quarter after taking a massive $14.1 billion non-cash charge, for assets and goodwill lost due to the financial crisis. But CBS shares rose through the day, CBS closing up, investors apparently relieved that...
- External links 2008-10-30
- TiVo-Netflix Digital Distribution a Marriage Made in Heaven
- Julia Boorstin submits: Thursday, TiVo TIVO and Netflix NFLX announced a partnership that will make it even easier to give consumers the entertainment they want, on demand, from the comfort of their living room couch. If you've got a TiVo HD you'll have access. TiVo will offer...
- External links 2008-11-02
- News Corp's Negative Outlook Hammers the Stock
- Julia Boorstin submits: Rupert Murdoch's media empire is doing worse than Wall Street thought, and even worse than Murdoch himself expected. After the bell Wednesday, News Corp NWS reported a nearly 30 percent decline in net income for its fiscal first quarter, hurt by an advertising downturn, weaker performance...
- External links 2008-11-06
- Live Nation Packs Concert-goers in Despite a Bad Economy
- Julia Boorstin submits: The pullback in consumer spending hasn't yet hurt the concert business. Live Nation LYV put on 17 percent more concerts in the past quarter and concert attendance rose 5.7 percent. Live Nation, the nation's largest concert promoter, reported strong earnings after the bell on Friday—its third...
- External links 2008-11-08
- Discovery Communications: Resilience Speaks to the Strength of Cable
- Julia Boorstin submits: Discovery Communications DISCA reported better than expected third quarter results on Friday. Based on these numbers, the newly public cable TV company that owns its eponymous Discovery Channel, as well as Animal Planet, TLC and the new Oprah Channel is off to a strong start (it...
- External links 2008-11-11
- Sony and MGM Have a Bond Blockbuster Weekend
- Julia Boorstin submits: Well, it indeed seems that the global movie industry is recession resistant. Or, at least it was this past weekend. The 22nd James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, from MGM and Sony SNE brought in over $70 million at the U.S. box office its opening weekend,...
- External links 2008-11-17
- GE's Immelt: Still Interested in Media Acquisitions
- Julia Boorstin submits: Media stocks have plummeted but CNBC's parent company, General Electric's GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt says he's still interested in buying media assets. Immelt told the Financial Times, "There are going to be some opportunities in media consolidation, in infrastructure, oil and gas, aviation... And my hope...
- External links 2008-11-17
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- Viacom: Disappointed in Investors Suing Paramount
- Julia Boorstin submits: The movie industry is renown for being inconsistent and opaque. But now Viacom's VIA Paramount Pictures is being sued by a numbers of investors for allegedly misrepresenting the films in which it invested $40 million. Allianz Risk Transfer, Marathon Structured Finance Fund LP, Munich RE Capital...
- External links 2008-12-03
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