Earnings: Boylemania Pushes ITV.com To 100 Percent Sales Increase
Despite being stagnant in Q1, ITV’s online sales are now going back up again. The under-fire broadcaster made £18 million in online revenue… Read more »
Earnings Call: Tweeting Murdoch: News Corp. Plans To Start Charging For More News Sites In FY10
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Some of my live Twitter coverage of the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). FY09/Q4 earnings call. Among other things, News Corp Chairman and CEO Rupert… Read more »
CBS’ Poltrack: Online Video Could Be More Valuable Than Live TV
Online video streaming remains a tiny part of TV viewers’ media consumption, but Dave Poltrack, CBS’ research head, has noticed trends that… Read more »
Report: Digital Ad Spend Will Grow, But Overall Market Will Shrink
Blast those cheapo web banners! Digital and mobile media will take a whopping 78 percent of global entertainment and media ad spend by 2013,… Read more »
YouTube Jumps Into The Local News Business–What It Means For Broadcasters
Although their plight hasn’t gotten as much attention as that of local newspapers, local broadcasters have also been hurting lately as small… Read more »
Earnings: Belo Profits Tank
The splitting off into an independent TV company and a newspaper company doesn’t seem to be paying off for Belo (NYSE: BLC) these days. Foll… Read more »
Disney’s Iger On Authentication: ‘We Should Get Paid Appropriately’
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Updated: *Disney* CEO Bob Iger describes his take on authentication as a “healthy amount of skepticism but open minded.” That said, he also… Read more »
Earnings: Disney’s Q2 Needed All The Balloons In ‘Up’
The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) came down to earth in Q2 with double-digit declines in net income, down 26 percent to fall below $1 billion,… Read more »
MobiTV Looking To Partner With Carriers In Europe And Asia
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MobiTV, which packages together TV content for mobile phone operators to offer streaming video services, is looking to expand beyond the U.S… Read more »
Earnings Call: Cablevision: ‘Spinning Off MSG Gives Us Both Flexibility’; Local Ads’ Green Shoots
Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) execs began the call by offering their rationale for spinning off the Madison Square Garden segment into an independ… Read more »
Tories Call For Ad-Funded Multimedia Local News Companies
The Conservative Party is proposing the creation of 80 independent cross-platform, ad-funded news companies staffed by professional journali… Read more »
Interview: NBCU’s Gaspin: ‘NBC No Longer Stands Alone’
An era ended for NBC when Jeff Gaspin became chairman of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) Television Entertainment Monday. The broadcast network no… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: ITN Signs Fashion; Gay IPTV Launch; GQ.com Adds We7
– ITN On: News distributor ITN’s digital division has signed a deal to provide broadcast footage for online and mobile publisher Imagine Fa… Read more »
Gaspin’s Star Continues To Rise At NBC Universal; Promoted To Chairman, Television Entertainment
Jeff Gaspin just took another big leap at NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) with his promotion — effective immediately — as the new chairman of NBC… Read more »
Silverman Leaving NBC To Start New Video Company At Diller’s IAC
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Updated; Barry Diller just solved Jeff Zucker’s Ben Silverman problem. In an unexpected turn of events announced this morning, Silverman wil… Read more »
Arqiva Agrees To Buy Kangaroo’s Remains; Launching New VOD Product
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It’s official: broadcast technology provider Arqiva has signed an agreement to buy the remains of the ill-fated Project Kangaroo VOD JV from… Read more »
MCC May Bid For IPL Franchise In 2011: Report
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Days after it said that IPL was hastening the death of test cricket, it has emerged that the venerated London-based MCC (Marylebone Cricket… Read more »
Earnings: NBCU Profits Drop 41 Percent; Revs Fall 8 Percent
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Declines in broadcast and local TV helped push NBC Universal’s profits down 41 percent in Q2. The media company’s parent, General Electric (… Read more »
Advertising Everywhere: Comcast Broadband Trials Bring Fears Of Clutter To Web Video
One of the attractions online video has had for advertisers is the lack of clutter typically associated with broadcast and cable spots. But… Read more »
NBC Angry At USOC-Comcast’s Olympic Channel; Tried Combining the Efforts
Shock. Horror. NBC is angry at the new Olympics channel to be launched by USOC and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), announced yesterday. Yesterday, th… Read more »
Broadcasters Hope To Re-Program How People Watch TV On Mobile Devices
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Broadcasters may be close to completing a two-year process for a technical standard for transmitting video to mobile devices, however, alrea… Read more »
Digital Britain: Concern A Tory Govt. Could Halt Carter’s Progress
Two weeks after Digital Britain’s wide-ranging pledges, a Westminster Media Forum debate on Thursday morning frizzled with nervous consensus… Read more »
EC Wants Faster Digital TV Switchover, Resolution To Telco Roadblock
European media commissioner Viviane Reding has set out her vision for a “Digital Europe”, with four key points including a plea to resolve t… Read more »
ESPN Will Use Footy Rights To Boost Sports Websites
ESPN (NYSE: DIS) will enhance and expand its online sports sites as part of its launch as a UK sports broadcaster in August. The Disney-owne… Read more »
paidContent Quick Hits: 7.06.09
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» Welcome Disney-ABC’s first entry into the Hulu Universe… Grey’s Anatomy! [Broadcasting and Cable]
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Budget 09: FBT Gone; 5% Excise Duty On Set Top Boxes; Higher DAVP Rates To Stay; Reactions
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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee delivered a budget that brought some cheer and some additional taxation to the media sector. Key points:… Read more »
TV At A Crossroads: Execs Weigh Up Hulu, Others Vs. Own-Brand Approach
With Project Kangaroo having been canceled, UK TV execs face some interesting choices on their VOD strategies – continue to go it alone, giv… Read more »
BSkyB Shutting Rivals.net As Mirror.co.uk, ESPN Prep Football Sites For New Season
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Just as football clubs get rid of their under-performing players in the summer, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has shut down Rivals.net, a network of fan… Read more »
Research: Online Took A Fifth Of UK Ad Spend In ’08
There aren’t many advertising surveys for 2008 left to report — and given the sad tale they tell about the UK advertising market, most o… Read more »
ITV Ditches ITN For Online News
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Multi-platform news business ITN is having to re-think its online business model and restructure its digital division after ITV (LSE: ITV),… Read more »
Sky Resists Ofcom’s Demands To License Its Content
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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) should lower its subscription prices and offer its premium sports and movie content to rivals on a wholesale basis to ensu… Read more »
TV Everywhere: What We Know — And What’s Missing
Sometime this July, 5,000 Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) customers across the U.S. will get the first taste of TV Everywhere — and the first broadba… Read more »
CBS Interactive’s Smith On Authentication: ’70 Billion Reasons To Make This Work’
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It didn’t take long for *CBS* to issue a statement after Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) announced the upcoming national t… Read more »
BBC Director General: BBC Can Stimulate Online Economy, Not Kill It
The BBC’s director-general Mark Thompson says there is “no evidence” the corporation is stifling commercial publishers’ efforts to monetise… Read more »
FLO TV To Cut Prices To Boost Mobile TV Usage
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Comcast, Time Warner Offer ‘Guiding Principles’ for TV Everywhere
Here are the “guiding principles” Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) have agreed on for TV Everywhere (click image to view),… Read more »
RIP Setanta, 1990-2009: A Victim Of ‘Cheap Opportunism’
It took on BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) as a plucky challenger in the battlefield of live sports, but at 6 pm on Tuesday Setanta’s channels went off ai… Read more »
ABC Swings Job Axe; Layoffs In ‘Low Double-Digits’
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ABC has completed the restructuring it began earlier this year and has eliminated a number of executive posts, The Wrap reported, citing an… Read more »
A New Channel Is Born: ET Now Goes On Air With ‘The Economic Times Advantage’
After a rather long wait, ET Now, the fourth English business news channel in India, went on air this morning as part of a phased rollout an… Read more »
Fox News Web Traffic Surges; But Will Advertisers Sign Up For A 9-5 Daily Webcast?
FoxNews.com has gone from a small trickle of web traffic to a considerable surge last month, as Nielsen Online points to a near-50 percent r… Read more »
