NHL Hands Extensive Ad Sales Responsibilities Over To NBCU
NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Sports Group has struck a wide-ranging advertising deal with the National Hockey League that gives the Comcast-owned netwo… Read more »
Mid-Year Media Stock Review: Content Trumped Tech in First Half of 2011
Turns out content was king during the first half of 2011, as CBS (NYSE: CBS), Comcast/NBCU (NSDQ: CMCSA), and News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) posted s… Read more »
Comcast Winds Down NBCU Digital Studio; Online To Emphasize Current Shows
NBC Universal (NSDQ: CMCSA) Digital Studio, three-year-old unit charged with creating original web content, will cease operations over the n… Read more »
Is Hulu In Play Or Just Jumping Through Hoops?
Someone wants Hulu to be in play — or at least the idea of a possible sale to be very public. The Wall Street Journal reported late Tuesday… Read more »
Comcast’s Brian Roberts Demos Xfinity TV, 1 Gig Speed
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One of the perks of being the nation’s largest cable operator: a general session demo slot. Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Chairman and CEO Brian Rob… Read more »
@ Cable Show: Comcast’s Roberts Shows Off 1Gbps Potential
I was an accidental tourist Tuesday for a small bit of cable internet history, when I decided an after-hours crowd with Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA… Read more »
Bloomberg Complains That Comcast-NBCU Isn’t Living Up To Merger Promises
Bloomberg doesn’t feel like its financial news channel is in the right kind of “neighborhood,” according to a legal complaint filed with the… Read more »
@ Cable Show: Britt: ‘No Such Thing As A TV Anymore’
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Whether it was Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) CEO Glenn Britt declaring TV is dead, long live the video screen or Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-14-11: Lodsys; Ericsson/Telcordia; Skype/Comcast; iTunes
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) settle their patent dispute; two more companies… Read more »
NBCU Wins The Olympics Through 2020 And That’s Not Bad For Real-Time Fans
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After years of railing against NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Sports for its real-time failures, my first instinct when the International Olympics Commit… Read more »
Appeals Court: ‘Bundling’ Cable Service Is Not Illegal
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A lot of people don’t like “bundling”-the practice of selling consumers access to a big chunk of cable channels, rather than allowing “a la… Read more »
NBC Sports Gets Real (Time); Streams French Open Live Coast To Coast
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Two years ago I ranted here about the need for NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Sports to get a grip or lose its grip on Wimbledon after it time shifted st… Read more »
Comcast’s Schiller Shifts To Run Digital Ad Sales At NBCU Networks Division
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) is moving its Digital Entertainment ad sales head Scott Schiller to the newly created role of EVP, digital media sales… Read more »
In Upfront Week Stunner, Ebersol Out; Lazarus New Chairman Of NBC Sports
This past Monday Dick Ebersol jovially tossed mini footballs to agency execs in the New York Hilton ballroom for the first upfront since Com… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-12-11
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» Four months after the FCC approved the merger between Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and NBC Universal, *Meredith* Attwell Baker, one of… Read more »
FCC Commissioner Goes Through Revolving Door, Comes Out As Comcast Lobbyist
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A couple of years from now, if *Meredith* Attwell Baker showed up as a lobbyist at Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), it probably would elicit shrugs. B… Read more »
NBC Universal Proves Its Worth In First Quarter With Comcast
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Comcast’s atypical afternoon earnings release highlighted the pluses of gaining control over NBC Universal (NSDQ: CMCSA) — and some of the… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-28-11
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» Ahead of Earnings Next Week, Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) Shares Drastic Dip Due to Googley Panda-Monium. (AllThingsD)
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PE Firms Buy Controlling Stake In Online Game Firm Bigpoint
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Two PE firms — Summit Partners and TA Associates — have purchased a controlling stake in online games company Bigpoint for $350 million. N… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-15-11
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» Less than three months after Comcast Corp. (NSDQ: CMCSA) took control of NBC Universal, NBCU’s new CEO, Steve Burke, is angling… Read more »
Comcast Subs Who Pay For Speed Can Now Download HD Movie In 5 Minutes
Holy broadband, Batman! Comcast’s long-anticipated Extreme 105 Mbps broadband service launched today in major markets across the U.S., poten… Read more »
Comcast’s Xfinity System Adds Management Tools From thePlatform, Microsoft
Comcast-owned white label video service thePlatform has struck a deal with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) that will add PlayReady and its Internet I… Read more »
DailyCandy Expanding Beyond The E-Newsletter, Deals With The Roundup
As the ink dries on the merger between Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and NBC Universal, the cable operator’s women’s lifestyle subsidiary DailyCandy… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 03-29-11: RIM; Best Buy WiMax; NFC
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Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: reports of RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) looking at investing in India; Best Buy starts up its WiMax… Read more »
NBCU Refines Integrated Media Division With Promotions
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NBC Universal (NSDQ: CMCSA), settling into life with Comcast, is continuing to refine the structure of its Entertainment & Digital Networks… Read more »
CNN Live ‘TV Everywhere’, New HD Video Player On The Way
The launches are still months away but CNN Digital has a pair of announcements from SXSW tonight that mark significant advancements for the… Read more »
Hearst Exec Shuffle: Khemlani Succeeds Kliavkoff; Parrish Joins DailyCandy
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With George Kliavkoff now heading up Hearst bill payment management start-up Manilla, Neeraj Khemlani has been named to succeed him as EVP &… Read more »
Hogging Bandwidth Could Crack Netflix’s Piggy Bank
If there’s a downside to the staggering amounts of broadband traffic Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is responsible for generating, it’s the boundless… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 02.22.2011
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» Publishers should wait a good while before signing on with Apple’s subscription plan, advises John Squires, a consultant and fo… Read more »
Comcast Subscriber Losses Narrowed In Q4
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In the quarter before its merger with NBC Universal (NSDQ: CMCSA) was complete, Comcast exceeded analysts expectations and also appeared to… Read more »
MSN’s Scott Moore Questions ‘Risky Bet’ AOL Made On HuffPo
AOL’s acquisition of Huffington Post makes for a “risky bet,” according to Scott Moore, partner and regional executive producer at Microsoft… Read more »
Hulu By The Numbers: Hulu Plus Projections & More
How is Hulu Plus doing? According to CEO Jason Kilar, the new subscription service is on track to pass one million subscribers and is set fo… Read more »
First Look: Comcast Xfinity Flips The Switch On iPad Streaming
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) cable subs with iPads or iPhones and the Xfinity TV app are now part of the (some) TV Everywhere club. The TV show and… Read more »
Comcast, Time Warner Expand TV Everywhere
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It’s been approximately 18 months since Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) first talked up TV Everywhere, but their authentic… Read more »
Was Jeff Zucker Really So Bad For NBC Universal?
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Today is Jeff Zucker’s last day as CEO of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), where he spent nearly a quarter of a century. Not since Gerald Levin des… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-28-11
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» The Newspaper Guild of New York, which represents Newsweek edit staffers, has given its assent to merger between the magazine I… Read more »
Secretive Company Sues The Cable Industry, Claiming It Owns Patents On VOD
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Back in November, a little-known Virginia company named Pragmatus AV sued Facebook, YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), LinkedIn, and Photobucket over pat… Read more »
Comcast’s Biggest Regulatory Win? What The FCC And DOJ Didn’t Do
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Sure, there are plenty of conditions attached to the regulatory approval of Comcast’s buying 51 percent of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), includi… Read more »
Updated: DOJ’s Approval Of Comcast-NBCU Contingent On Giving Up Role In Hulu
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Maybe it’s just as well that Jeff Zucker is leaving NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) when Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) takes over. Zucker and former News C… Read more »
FCC Paves The Way For Comcast-NBCU Merger This Month
As expected, the Federal Communications Commission today approved the merger between Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) 4-1,… Read more »
