This article provides a case study of Vivendi Universal’s agreement to sell its Hollywood assets to General Electric’s NBC entertainment division would further consolidate the global market, creating a sixth major media conglomerate with the creative horsepower of Seabiscuit and the reach of Friends. Vivendi is dismantling the entertainment empire...
This article enumerates the challenge that was ahead and accepted by Vivendi’s new CEO. It explains it’s threatening struggle for survival. Vivendi Universal’s CEO, a very public casualty on the information superhighway, is buried alongside other such supposed media industry visionaries as AOL Time Warner’s CEO and Bertelsmann’s CEO. In...
WASHINGTON AFP — NBC Universal television has said it has acquired The Weather Channel, without indicating the price. The Wall Street Journal, on announcing the imminent purchase, recently valued the transaction at around 3.5 billion dollars. Twenty-percent owned by France's Vivendi, NBC Universal joined private equity...
InsWeb Corp. (NASDAQ: INSW), a leadingonline insurance marketplace, today announced that Michael P. Crosson hasjoined the Company as Senior Vice President of Advertising Sales. A seasoned veteran of the interactive industry, Mr. Crosson has over 30years of advertising sales and business development experience working withwell-known brands. As Vice President...
Sierra Entertainment, Los Angeles, a division of Vivendi Games, has announced the development of "The MummyTM: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor," a video game based on one of Summer 2008's most highly anticipated movies from Universal Pictures. The game, which will mirror the fast-paced action and...
Video Game Captures the Intense Action-Adventure, Fantastic Creatures and Epic Locations of Upcoming Universal Pictures' Supernatural Adventure Staring Brendan Fraser and Jet Li LOS ANGELES, May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Sierra Entertainment, a division of Vivendi Games, today announced the development of The MummyTM: Tomb of the Dragon...
JACKSON CENTER, Ohio, May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thor Industries, Inc. announced today that it has hired Christian G. Farman as its Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Farman has broad, successful experience as a chief financial officer of public and private companies. He is...
Easton Sports in Van Nuys, a manufacturer of baseball and cycling gear, has hired Los Angeles-based ad agency Omelet to move the brand online. Omelet has worked for ABC Inc., Vivendi Universal, and Microsoft Corp., but Easton is its first sports client. Staff reporter Joel Russell can he...
Hubert Larenaudie to Head Asia Pacific Focus on Broadening Distribution and Launching Online Game Offerings in High Growth Asia Pacific Markets NEW YORK -- Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTWO) today announced that Hubert Larenaudie, an accomplished senior executive with more than 15 years' experience in building...
MySpace.com said it has started a joint venture with Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group Corp. to sell music and concert tickets via the popular social networking site. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Beverly Hills-based MySpace, owned by News Corp.,...
LOS ANGELES -- MySpace, which has lured millions of big acts and garage bands alike to build profiles on the popular social networking hub to attract fans, said Thursday it will turn those pages into portals for selling music, merchandise and more. Helping back the new MySpace...
Musical Space: Social networking site MySpace, a division of News Corp., was reported to be in talks with several record labels about starting an online service offering free music. Reports said that the joint venture would be ad-revenue supported and would be split between the Beverly Hills-based site, which is...
French conglomerate Vivendi plans to launch a multimedia service called Zaoza, which will work on mobile phones and PCs and later perhaps on TV set-top boxes. Zaoza is Chinese for "word of mouth" or "buzz" and will offer consumers unlimited downloads of exclusive...
Brings over 20 years of global HR leadership experience to NYSE Euronext NEW YORK & PARIS -- NYSE Euronext NYX today announced the appointment of Philippe Duranton as Group Executive Vice President and Global Head of Human Resources, effective March 3, 2008. Mr. Duranton will be responsible for...
PARIS AFP — French judges have placed the head of Warner Music, Edgar Bronfman Jr, under formal investigation as part of a probe into French media giant Vivendi Universal, legal sources told AFP on Thursday. Bronfman, who was once a director of Vivendi and who sold shares in...
Los Angeles dealmakers in December registered $26.5 billion in mergers and acquisitions, an increase of 24 percent over the same month a year earlier. Most of the activity was concentrated in a single transaction, the $18.9 billion acquisition by Vivendi Universal Games of Activision Inc., a Santa Monica-based publisher of...
Former NBC Universal Chairman and CEO Bob Wright has spent the past 20 years transforming NBC from a broadcast network into a global multimedia powerhouse, ranging from Spanish-language Telemundo to the women's Web site iVillage. Wright also led NBC's move into cable with CNBC and MSNBC. And later, when NBC...
CANNES, France AFP — CDs may well be seen as 'yesterday's' technology by young digitally-savvy music lovers, but there's life left in the shiny discs for some years to come, leading industry executives said Sunday. Plummeting CD sales worldwide have been blamed for many of the current woes...
CANNES, France AFP — Executives gathered for the music industry's largest gathering were hoping Sunday that new legal and free music download services and the blossoming Chinese market mean there is light at the end of the tunnel. This year's 42nd MIDEM, the global music industry's largest annual...
Wireless News01-13-2008Ovation TV Network Acquires Universal Music Group's IMFWIRELESS NEWS-January 13, 2008-Ovation TV Network Acquires Universal Music Group's IMF C2008 10Meters - http:// www.10meters.com On the heels of its re-launch earlier this year as the only network devoted exclusively to art and personal creativity, Ovation TV has acquired Universal...
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