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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
- Iron Man Drives Marvel's 40% Earnings Growth
- Julia Boorstin submits: Marvel Entertainment's MVL new strategy of producing its own movies, instead of just licensing the rights to its characters, seems to really be working. Yesterday morning Marvel Entertainment reported its third-quarter net income grew 40 percent thanks to the performance of its Iron Man movie, both...
- External links 2008-11-05
- 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
- Disney Holds Up Well Despite Economic Downturn
- Julia Boorstin submits: Disney DIS reported its fourth quarter and full year earnings after the bell Thursday, and Wall Street has been trying to sort out the economic impact on the media giant, which so far has performed much better than its peers through the downturn. Disney reported net...
- 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
- Ticketmaster Dropping Fees - But Will It Help?
- Julia Boorstin submits: Ticketmaster is famous for fees that concert goers love to hate. Now the ticketing giant is experimenting with dropping those fees in an attempt to gain customers in an increasingly tough economic environment. Tickets for the Eagles' upcoming concert will be available without any Ticketmaster TKTM...
- External links 2008-11-13
- Facebook: Ad Revenue Not the Top Priority
- Julia Boorstin submits: Facebook isn't distracted by the fact that the advertising industry is facing an across-the-board downturn. The popular social network is launching a new ad format, called "engagement ads," because they ask Facebook members to respond to ads that pop up right after they log in, by...
- External links 2008-11-13
- Searching for Profit: YouTube Launches New Video Ads
- Julia Boorstin submits: Google's GOOG YouTube is harnessing Google's search technology and the power of its video audience, launching new video ads tied to search results. When you go to YouTube to search for a certain video, these "YouTube Sponsored Videos" will pop up next to your search results,...
- External links 2008-11-14
- Magazines Continue to Be Ripped by the Economy
- Julia Boorstin submits: I've been writing for months about the economic impact of the downturn on the fashion magazine industry. As of the end of September, magazine ad pages were down 10 percent industry-wide. And with consumer spending pulling back dramatically, it should be no surprise that fashion magazines...
- External links 2008-11-15
- 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
- News Corp's MySpace Finds a Way to Profit from Copyrighted Content
- Julia Boorstin submits: News Corp NWS got a great deal when it snapped up social network MySpace for $580 million, but only now is it tackling an issue that should allow it to profit from a lot of the video posted on its site. Instead of pulling down copyright-protected...
- External links 2008-11-03
- 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
- YouTube's Big TV Play and Advertising Future
- Julia Boorstin submits: If you thought YouTube was just the go-to destination for videos of cat tricks and political parodies, the online video site is going to try to change your perception. The Google GOOG-owned site aims to become a go-to destination for full-length professional video content, while also...
- External links 2008-10-17
- TV Guide Is Sold for One Dollar
- Julia Boorstin submits: No, I don't mean that a copy of TV Guide sold for $1 at the grocery store checkout, I mean that the company that publishes TV Guide sold for a single dollar, just a fraction of the actual magazine's newsstand price. Sound implausible that the...
- External links 2008-10-19
- 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
- "High School Musical" Epitomizes Iger's Strategy for Disney
- Julia Boorstin submits: Friday, Disney DIS brought High School Musical 3 to the big screen, after cultivating the franchise on the Disney Channel, where it debuted the brand and ran the first sequel. But High School Musical 3 (aka HSM3) is far more than a movie—it's a tween phenomenon,...
- External links 2008-10-26
- Disney's "HSM 3" Sets Box Office Record: What Does It Mean for Disney's Strategy?
- Julia Boorstin submits: Disney's DIS High School Musical 3: Senior Year brought in $42 million at the U.S. box office its opening weekend, the biggest opening weekend ever for a movie musical. This performance validates Disney's strategy—it built the HSM brand, debuting the first and second films in...
- External links 2008-10-27
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