Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ The growing appetite of Chinese consumers for news and entertainment provides tremendous growth opportunities for foreign media companies, but they have to contend with the efforts of Chinese government officials to control Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ The growing...
Improving HIV/AIDS prevention efforts, especially those focused on young people, is a key challenge in the fight against the pandemic. Since the mid-1990s the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has partnered with U.S.-based media companies on comprehensive HIV/AIDS campaigns. This paper outlines the unique public education model that it is...
Following the weak advertising environment from 2001-2003, media companies in 2004 benefited from both a solid pick-up in advertising, driven by the continuation of the economic expansion in the United States, and from special factors, including political advertising and the Olympics. The expectation of continued moderate economic growth in the...
The dramatic increase in CD and DVD media demand - 500 percent this year and similar forecasts for next year - plus aggressive competitive pressures from second-tier and no-name media manufacturers have only increased the consumer's media selection confusion and their concern over media quality and data storage longevity. Grass...
To advertisers and agencies, media companies are looking more and more like supermarkets. The big question is: Who's getting the better deal, the shopkeeper or the customer? A media mammoth like the newly approved AOL Time Warner might be likened to To advertisers and agencies,...
AsiaInfo Services 03-05-2007 Xinhua Finance to List on Nasdaq Soon BEIJING, Mar 05, 2007 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Xinhua Finance Limited, a leading financial news services and media company in China, filed to raise USD 371.5 billion in an IPO o...
Sixty-four of the largest U.S. companies, including NBC parent General Electric, and nearly 20 other media companies urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the University of Michigan's affirmative-action policy last week. In friend-of-the-court bri Sixty-four of the largest U.S. companies, including NBC parent...
For the British, there's a certain satisfaction in seeing the wannabe global media giants tearing themselves apart. The collapse of European pretenders Kirch Media and Vivendi is particularly welcome since it was never quite clear why the Germans an For the British, there's a certain...
The nation's 100 Leading Media Companies resemble those finely expressed M.C. Escher drawings that are as much a puzzle as they are visual renderings of puzzling ideas. The nation's 100 Leading Media Companies resemble those finely expressed M.C. Escher drawings that are as much a puzzle...
Harry E. Sloan has been named chairman/CEO of the newly reconfigured MGM. He oversaw the $2.6 billion sale last month of SBS Broadcasting, the European media company he founded in 1990 and most recently served as executive chairman. ...
'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, Netherlands, September 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Quintiq, a provider of planning, scheduling and supply chain optimization software today announced it's working closely with SAP AG to co-develop a joint solution designed for media companies 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, Netherlands, September 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Quintiq, a provider of planning,...
Muslim media company plans IPO, hopes for $10M A small Muslim media company in Farmington hopes to expand into radio and TV by raising $10 million in an initial public offering, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Muslim media...
Merrill Lynch & Co. media analyst Jessica Reif Cohen reiterated her "buy" rating and $27-per-share, 12-month price target for News Corp., after the media giant reported strong fiscal first-quarter results. Operating income grew Merrill Lynch & Co....
Ellison Media Company specializes in generating direct response for clients--clients who emphasize physical, emotional and spiritual health. For more than 30 years, EMC has served innovative organizations that desire customer acquisition expertise. E Ellison Media Company specializes in generating direct response for clients--clients who emphasize...
Jan. 12--The creation of AOL Time Warner Inc. could spark a buying frenzy between Internet companies and old-line media companies, with the upstarts in the driver's seat. Jan. 12--The creation of AOL Time Warner Inc. could spark a buying frenzy between Internet companies and...
Media companies provide inaugural recreation President Clinton's inaugural committee has limited itself to contributions of less than $100, buttressed by a $9 million surplus from the 1993 inauguration, but that isn't keeping media companies f Media companies provide inaugural...
Upset that a growing number of weight-loss and vitamin ads with dubious success claims are finding their way into major media, a Federal Trade Commission member is warning media companies they could face consumer-protection charges if they don't rein Upset that a growing number of weight-loss...
Viacom chief Sumner Redstone sees a rosy future. "The recession is over for media companies," he said at a West Coast investors conference last week. "The plain truth is [that] 2003 marks a threshold for global media and entertainmen Viacom chief Sumner Redstone sees...
Peter Pezaris has resigned as president of Fort Lauderdale-based SportsLine.com, an internet sports media company. Steve ... Peter Pezaris has resigned as president of Fort Lauderdale-based SportsLine.com, an internet sports media company. Steve Snyder, formerly vice president of marketing, has been named executive vice president and...
In the latest ranking of European media companies, German publishing and entertainment conglomerate Bertelsmann came out on top in terms of revenues at $6.85 billion for 1992, followed by Italy's ... In the latest ranking of European media companies, German publishing and entertainment...