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• Lionsgate invests USD8.6m in joint TV venture

  Strategy Eye - 2008-11-12

  Movie production studio Lionsgate says it has so far invested USD8.6m in the new video-on-demand VoD channel it is launching next year with Viacom's Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM. Lionsgate's investment represents 28.57% of the venture, known as Studio 3...

  Tags: Channel, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, VoD, Viacom Inc., Lionsgate, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Charlotte Eyre, Comcast, HBO, Lions Gate Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Time Warner, Viacom

• Supremes Hint At Brand X, MGM Decisions

  - 2005-05-30

  With June approaching fast, so do expectations that the U.S. Supreme Court during the coming month may render its much-anticipated decisions in the Brand X Internet Services and MGM Studios cases that could impact legal and regulatory treatment, respectively, over cable TV telephony/competitive access rules and...

  Tags: brand, Branding, Cable, file-sharing, Grokster Ltd., INTERNET, MARKETING, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Progress & Freedom Foundation, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• Here's the Rub, Sony

  - 2004-09-27

  It was a bold, down-to-the-wire move that would do Agent 007 proud. At the last minute, Sony elbowed Time Warner aside to win the bidding last week for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio that owns the James Bond movies, for $3 billion. The story line seemed clear: Sony gains MGM's prized 4,000-title...

  Tags: Cable, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, NETWORKING, Newsweek, Sony Corp., TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• XM Sets New Frequency Strategies: IVHOE, NCDP, MGM, XMSR, VOD.

  - 2004-09-27

  M2 PRESSWIRE-27 September 2004-InvestSource Inc.: XM Sets New Frequency Strategies: IVHOE, NCDP, MGM, XMSR, VODC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09272004 Stocks in the News: Innovation Holdings (OTC: IVHOE), Nicodrops Incorporated (OTC: NCDP), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Incorporated (NYSE: MGM), XM Satellite Radio Holdings Incorporated...

  Tags: FINANCE, investor, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., NYSE Euronext, strategy, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoD, XM Satellite Radio Inc.

• Sony pact for MGM finalised; Comcast joins consortium

  - 2004-09-24

  LOS ANGELES AFP — A consortium led by Sony Corp. that includes US cable television operator Comcast has finalised a deal to acquire MGM studios for around 4.9 billion dollars, an official said. The MGM board on Thursday approved the deal, which was tentatively sealed on September 13, closing...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Cable, Comcast Corp., consortium, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, NETWORKING, Sony Corp., TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• That's entertainment.

  - 2003-07-22

  Jul 22, 2003 (The Economist - ABIX via COMTEX) Vivendi is auctioning its US entertainment operations. A buyer will be selected in September 2003. The French conglomerate is cleverly giving the impression there is intense rivalry for the assets, which comprise a film studio,...

  Tags: Cable, entertainment, Liberty Media Corp., MARKETING, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, NBC Universal Inc., TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Texas Pacific Group, TVs, Viacom Inc., Vivendi Universal

• For Jesse, it's still all about the money: as the Reverend keeps pushing the envelope—and the collection plate—in corporate America, Republicans are debating about how to outflank him among black voters

  - 2003-02-04

  It's one thing for the Rev. Jesse Jackson to shake down Wall Street when he finds corporate officers weak or foolish enough to give in to his race-baiting tactics. It's quite another for the Bush administration to aid and abet Jackson's self-serving schemes. That's what happened a few weeks ago...

  Tags: Bush, chairman, FCC, Government, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, NETWORKING, Republican, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, Viacom Inc.

• Live Veggies!

  - 2002-02-22

  MINNEAPOLIS AP -- Even without arms or legs, Larry the Cucumber and Bob the Tomato are leaping off the videotapes and onto the stage of VeggieTales Live! Larry, Bob and a bushel basket of their wacky vegetable friends are featured in a singing, dancing, theatrical version of the popular VeggieTales...

  Tags: Associated Press, Australia, CinemaNow, INTERNET, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• MGM Exploring VOD Options

  - 2001-08-06

  While one major movie studio has signed up with In Demand to offer its films on cable video-on-demand systems, Metro Goldwyn Mayer is looking to go its own way. David Bishop, president and chief operating officer of MGM Home Entertainment Group, says he wants to invest in other video-on-demand...

  Tags: cable, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, video, VoD

• Metromedia sells library to MGM; will use $573 million from deal to enlarge overseas telecommunications ventures. (Metromedia International Group)(Brief Article)

  - 1997-05-05

  Will use $573 million from deal to enlarge overseas telecommunications ventures For now, John Kluge's Metromedia International Group has decided to bet on the global demand for telecommunications hardware rather than software. On...

  Tags: Kirk Kerkorian, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, telecommunications