More On Media Stocks: DIS, NWS, CMCSA, VIA, TWX, ETC.
So far, 2006 has been a lot kinder to some media stocks than the sloughs of despond known as 2005. As 1Q06 results roll in, so do efforts to… Read more »
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Earnings: Comcast Q1 Revenue Up 10 Percent, Record Sub Adds
Comcast delivered this time … Net income of $466 million, or $0.22 per share, a substantial improvement over $143 million, or $0.08 per sh… Read more »
Comcast’s Roberts: New AT&T Has “Daunting” Revenue
The latest installment of USA Today’s CEO Forum comes from an interview of Comcast CEO Brian Roberts by Kevin Maney in front of an audience… Read more »
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ABC, Fox On Comcast VOD Soon; Joins NBC, CBS On Next Day Sale
By Rafat Ali
ABC and Fox will join competitors NBC and CBS on Comcast’s VOD service, Steve Burke, Comcast COO told media buyers Friday at a VOD upfront p… Read more »
@ NCTA: Interview: Brian Roberts, CEO, Comcast: “This Year Is Next Year”
Between his roles as chairman and CEO of Comcast and chairman of NCTA’s board, Brian Roberts was scheduled to the nth degree. He stopped lon… Read more »
BOA: TWC, Comcast Support Cablevision DVR Plan
Comcast COO Steve Burke and Time Warner Cable CFO John Martin said Thursday that if Cablevision’s remote DVR service works, their companies… Read more »
NBC Universal Shows On VOD on Comcast; Non-Prime Time Free
By Rafat Ali
Comcast will sell popular NBC and sister channel TV shows through its VOD service starting in May. They will be available to Comcast digital… Read more »
Comcast Trying To Acquire Disney’s 40 Percent Share Of E!: Report
Comcast owns the controlling interest in E! Entertainment Television (E! and Style) but now, according to B&C’s John Higgins, the cable gian… Read more »
@ Media Summit NYC: Comcast CEO Brian Roberts
By Rafat Ali
Reached the Mc-Graw Hill building ten minutes into Comcast CEO Brian Roberts’ opening keynote interview. The first thing I hear is him dissi… Read more »
Analyst: Urges News Corp. To “Move Even More Rapidly Online”
Pali Research’s Richard Greenfield initiated coverage of News Corp. Monday with a buy recommendation — and the message that Rupert Murdoch… Read more »
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Comcast CEO Brian Roberts On Net Neutrality
By Rafat Ali
We covered Comcast’s earnings yesterday…in the Q4 earnings call CEO Brian Roberts spoke a bit about net neutrality and the controversy abo… Read more »
Earnings: Comcast Reports 4Q05 Profits Down 69 Percent; Promises Faster Pace On Digital Voice
Comcast reported a 69-percent drop in 4Q05 profit to $133 million or 6 cents per share compared to $423 million or 19 cents per share the pr… Read more »
Industry Moves: Comcast ‘s Cross-Platform Re-org
br>– Comcast has made some changes, according to Multichannel News. David Juliano, formerly president of Comcast Online and Voice Services… Read more »
Comcast Is Going On The Road With Bon Jovi
Hard to believe but there’s more to write about Bon Jovi and digital media this year … Now the musician has tied up with neighboring Comca… Read more »
Intervew: Amy Banse, President, Comcast Interactive Media; Sam Schwarts, EVP
[By Staci D. Kramer] The safest assessment to make of Comcast’s newly formed Comcast Interactive Media is that it’s a work in progress. The… Read more »
Comcast Forms Comcast Interactive Media; Amy Banse Heading It
By Rafat Ali
Will this prove to be as potent as the formation of Fox Interactive Media? Will this spark another round of acquisitions? I doubt, but this… Read more »
Earnings: Comcast HSD Up 26 Percent But Not Enough To Budge Net Income
Comcast pushed its operating income to $883 million from $686 but that wasn’t enough to move the net income off the dime — lliterally, it w… Read more »
Cable, Wireless Quad Play: Joint Venture Includes Sprint Nextel, TW, Comcast, Cox and Advance
This morning’s announcement of a $200 million wireless, cable joint venture included a little twist — Advance/Newshouse is part of the cabl… Read more »
AOL’s Talk With Comcast Adds To Verizon’s Woes
By Rafat Ali
This is true not just for Verizon, but also for SBC, and for people who’re betting all on just IPTV, well, wake up and smell the IP…the ne… Read more »
Comcast’s Billion VOD Views
By Rafat Ali
(via LR) Not that it really significant, but interestign milestone nonetheless: more than one billion programs have been viewed on its VOD s… Read more »
Comcast’s Need For Reinvention: Part II
By Rafat Ali
(See our part I here) A detailed story on why Comcast needs to reinvent itself..one is companies like CBS trying to develop “cable bypass”,… Read more »
Comcast’s Need For Reinvention: Part I
By Rafat Ali
Keep in mind that Comcast has an existing relationship with AOL-parent Time Warner, on Adelphia, and that, on the surface, is going well.
Al… Read more »
Google, Comcast Mulling Stake in AOL
By Rafat Ali
Updated at 11:15 PM PST:
So says WSJ…Google and Comcast are in “serious discussions” to buy a minority stake in AOL. The stake is for the… Read more »
Comcast Proposes DVD/VOD Service
By Rafat Ali
A very good story on how Comcast is pushing to collapse the video windows prevelant in the industry, of course, for the betterment of its se… Read more »
Comcast to Stream Video of NHL Games
By Rafat Ali
Comcast has struck a deal with the National Hockey League to stream NHL games live to its nearly 8 million high-speed Internet subscribers.… Read more »
Comcast To Launch a Big ITV Pilot
By Rafat Ali
This should be a big boost to the ITV industry…omcast is slated to begin a groundbreaking pilot launch of ITV services from several cable… Read more »
Why Comcast Should Acquire AOL
By Rafat Ali
A surprisingly convincing argument by Will Richmond on why Comcast, which hasn’t really done anything big in online content, should be looki… Read more »
Reuters TCS: Comcast And Google? And Wireless?
By Rafat Ali
The Reuters TCS summit is happening in NYC, and some good stories coming out of it. This one on Comcast CEO Brian Roberts’ speech there. He… Read more »
Earnings: Comcast Heads For Internet 2.0
The Comcast earnings call covered lots of ground but several of exchanges stood out:– Asked about advertising, an area Comcast has focused… Read more »
Earnings: Comcast HSD Revs Up 28.8 Percent In 2Q05
Taking a first look at Comcast’s 2Q05 earnings … Comcast added 297,000 HSD subs during 2Q05 for a total of more than 7.7 million and 18.9… Read more »
MetaTV’s Acquisition By TVWorks Announced
By Rafat Ali
Last week ITVT broke the story, and this wek it has been formally announced by the stakeholders: TV Works, a JV of Comcast and Cox, has acqu… Read more »
Comcast Acquires Audio-Video Search Firm StreamSage
Comcast, the cable giant looking to enhance its online and TV search capabilities, has quietly bought out a small audio-video search firm S… Read more »
Comcast May Be On Verge Of Wireless Deal; Could Break From Cable Consortium
By Rafat Ali
Comcast may — or may not be — on the verge of a wireless deal with soon-to-merge Sprint and Nextel or T-Mobile USA, according to the Holly… Read more »
Earnings: HSD, Digital Drive Comcast’s Dramatic Growth
By Rafat Ali
Comcast reported net income of $313 million for 1Q05 — up five times over the $65 million earned in 1Q04. The country’s largest MSO — and… Read more »
Comcast CEO stumps for VOD
Comcast CEO/VOD evangelist Brian Roberts predicts his company will deliver a billion TV shows through VOD next year; Comcast currently avera… Read more »
Big Content Plays From Verizon And Comcast
By Rafat Ali
Well, you’ve been reading about it a lot here recently…Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg and Comcast CEO Brian Roberts gave keynote speeches tod… Read more »
Behind Comcast’s VOD Growth
By Rafat Ali
Sixty percent of Comcast’s 21.5 million subscribers are now VOD-ready, and in July those customers downloaded 50 million shows, up from 40 m… Read more »
Comcast arms for TV revolution
By Rafat Ali
Comcast’s VOD plans and its merger with search: very interesting: “How will the consumer navigate that array? We now are partnering with a n… Read more »
Comcast’s Big Bet on Content
By Rafat Ali
(sub. req.): An interview with Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast, folliwing the recent deal with Sony and others to acquire MGM.
“The Sony/MGM… Read more »
Sony And Comcast Plan New Channels
By Rafat Ali
The joint machinery is beginning to move: Animax, AXN and Sony Entertainment TV (the latter two I’ve watched in India, and are very popular… Read more »
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