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- Will the Ticketmaster - Live Nation Merger Survive Attack?
- Julia Boorstin submits: The world's largest ticketing company, Ticketmaster Entertainment TKTM, and the world's largest concert promoter, Live Nation LYV, announced an all-stock merger. The boards have approved creating a new company, called Live Nation Entertainment, which will have a combined value of approx $2.5 billion. Ticketmaster shareholders will...
- External links 2009-02-11
- Disney's Bob Iger Looks Beyond the Recession
- Julia Boorstin submits: Disney DIS can't ignore the reality of the recession and its impact on Disney's business or its stock price, but CEO Bob Iger insists that the focus is on the long term. The strategy is to create high-quality branded content to leverage across its business divisions...
- External links 2009-03-04
- How Will Apple - Amazon Partnership Change the e-Book Industry?
- Julia Boorstin submits: The struggling publishing industry may get the jump-start it needs from a new technology application. Starting yesterday, Amazon AMZN has allowed Apple AAPL iPhone and iPod Touch owners to download electronic books on their gadgets. Big news for the publishing industry, since it allows the 14-million...
- External links 2009-03-05
- What Will Disney Focus on at Shareholder Meeting?
- Julia Boorstin submits: Disney's DIS annual shareholder meeting is underway, and the issues on the agenda are particularly telling of the big issues facing media—and all corporate giants—today. The bottom line is that customer relationships matter and executive compensation is under scrutiny. The big event in Northern California, where...
- External links 2009-03-11
- Sirius XM: Can It Tune into Markets Beyond Cars?
- Julia Boorstin submits: Sirius XM Radio's SIRI best source of business — new car sales — has effectively disappeared. So instead of looking backwards at Detroit's big three, Sirius XM has finally realized it needs to look forward: to new technologies and new ways to monetize its content. Sirius...
- External links 2009-03-12
- News Corp Management Shakeup and AOL Gets a New CEO
- Julia Boorstin submits: Thursday was a busy night for media giants. At News Corp NWS, the weak ad markets, a struggling stock price, and the exit of the company's number two, is prompting a major restructuring and management shakeup. Rupert Murdoch is restructuring News Corp's Fox businesses, ahead of...
- External links 2009-03-13
- Will Ticketmaster Survive the Economy?
- Julia Boorstin submits: Ticketmaster Entertainment TKTM is infamous for its ticketing charges. Now it's suffering from a $1.1 billion charge — a goodwill write-down on the decline in its stock. The stock is trading around $4, less than a quarter of its price when it spun off from Barry...
- External links 2009-03-20
- How Will Cutbacks Affect the New York Times and Washington Post?
- Julia Boorstin submits: The newspaper industry can't escape ever-declining revenues and the shift of readers online and now it's cutting back on its most important assets — its news room. The New York Times NYT and Washington Post WPO yesterday both announced major cuts. They've both cut back elsewhere...
- External links 2009-03-27
- Will the Credit Crunch Squeeze 'Monsters vs. Aliens'?
- Julia Boorstin submits: This will be a monster-size weekend at the movies, and I'm not just talking about box office numbers. Yes, if you have kids, you're sure to find yourself at a matinee of Monsters vs. Aliens, which is opening on 3,500 screens. The performance of this film...
- External links 2009-03-27
- Les Moonves Decides to Stay the Course
- Julia Boorstin submits: At the Deutsche Bank media conference, [[CBS]] chief Les Moonves showed remarkable optimism, saying that the economy is pushing him to figure out how to make the business better and that "we are at the top of our game." Looking towards the upcoming pilot season and...
- External links 2009-03-04
- Can Live Nation and Ticketmaster Buck the Recession?
- Julia Boorstin submits: Yesterday Britney Spears kicked off her "Circus" concert tour in New Orleans Louisiana with ticket prices so high it seems the pop star and her managers have no sense that we're in a recession. For a good seat at most of Britney's 33 North America concerts,...
- External links 2009-03-04
- Viacom's Earnings Slide in Below Estimates
- Julia Boorstin submits: Viacom's VIA fourth quarter was slammed by restructuring charges, and the impact of the weak economy — slower consumer spending, lower advertising and fewer DVD sales. Viacom isn't exposed to the ad markets that are hurting the most — local and broadcast—but it's still feeling the...
- External links 2009-02-13
- How Will Disney's New Boy-Targeted Cable Channel Fare?
- Julia Boorstin submits: While most media companies are pulling back their exposure to the declining ad markets, Disney DIS is confident, and bucking the trend. On Friday, Disney launched Disney XD in 72 million homes, a new ad-supported basic cable channel targeting boys age six to fourteen. Disney...
- External links 2009-02-18
- Comcast: Growth Slowed by Recession
- Julia Boorstin submits: Comcast CMCSA reported its fourth quarter earnings before the bell this morning, and excluding a $600 million write-down of its stake in wireless company Clearwire Corp CLWR and other one-time expenses, it actually beat the adjusted profit analysts expected by a nickel. Earnings per share...
- External links 2009-02-18
- CBS Takes a Big Hit from Weak Ad Market
- Julia Boorstin submits: CNBC.com[[CBS]] was the last of the major media conglomerates to report earnings, and as expected the weak ad environment took its toll, dragging net profit down 52 percent. by Julia Boorstin
- External links 2009-02-19
- What's in Store for Disney?
- Julia Boorstin submits: Disney's DIS big news this week was from its Parks and Resorts division which Wednesday night announced a major restructuring, which will include layoffs. It will reorganize its U.S. resort operation, streamlining and cost-cutting. This comes on the heels of the division offering voluntary buyouts to...
- External links 2009-02-20
- Marvel and Dreamworks: Ride Out the Recession with Pure Play Movie Studios
- Julia Boorstin submits: With media conglomerates tanking, pure play movie studios Marvel MVL and Dreamworks Animation DWA look like pretty robust places to ride out the recession, on this day that both report earnings. All that exposure to advertising at the likes of News Corp NWS and CBS Corp...
- External links 2009-02-25
- How Will Seinfeld's New NBC Show Fare?
- Julia Boorstin submits: Other than Bee Movie," Jerry Seinfeld's 2007 Dreamworks Animation DWA movie, he's been retired from Hollywood since his epic run on "Seinfeld" ended in 1998. Now NBC GE has lured the comedian back to its airwaves, hoping to hit the jackpot once again. Considering that NBC...
- External links 2009-02-27
- 2008 Media Mergers & Acquisitions Likely to Drop
- Julia Boorstin submits: PricewaterhouseCoopers just released a new report on merger and acquisition activity in the media and entertainment space and the outlook is grim. Bottom line: Media M&A activity this year will be weak, down from the past couple of years. by Julia Boorstin
- External links 2009-03-01
- Media Moguls Are Ready For Recovery
- Julia Boorstin submits: Deutsche Bank's 2009 Media & Telecom Conference is underway in Palm Beach Florida. But just because the event is at the glamorous Breakers hotel doesn't mean the media moguls are relaxing. Viacom VIA CEO Philippe Dauman and Time Warner TWX CEO Jeff Bewkes both spoke Monday...
- External links 2009-03-04
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