ESPN Consolidates Digital/Print Under Kosner; Turner’s Hands Golf To Kropp
ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and Turner Sports have both made two fairly significant personnel moves this morning designed to tighten the relationship b… Read more »
Disney To Dish: Your ‘Free Starz’ Promotion Is Illegal
Dish Networks is celebrating its 30th anniversary, but a few of their biggest media partners aren’t interested in throwing the satellite TV… Read more »
The Royal Wedding: Big Hats, And Bigger Viewing Figures
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The numbers are coming in on just how many people tuned in to watch the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton. While some are highly s… 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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Two Studios Hold Out On YouTube Movie Rental Deal-Piracy Is The Issue
Word leaked earlier this week that YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) was going to start renting out premium movie content, putting it in a position to co… Read more »
Updated: AOL Vet Ruffolo Joining ABC News To Head Digital
In a surprising move, AOL (NYSE: AOL) vet Joe Ruffolo has been picked by Ben Sherwood as the new SVP of ABC (NYSE: DIS) News Digital, paidCo… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-18-11
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» VH1 Cultivates Its Female Side (WSJ)
» ‘Robot Journalist’ Out-Writes Human Sports Reporter (NPR)
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Digital Head Paul Slavin Leaving ABC News
The clock has been ticking for Paul Slavin at ABC (NYSE: DIS) News since it was clear that he wouldn’t get the top job following David Westi… Read more »
Updated: AP Brings In Ex-ABC News Chief Westin To Head Licensing Group
Former *ABC* News President David Westin is joining the Associated Press to manage the News Licensing Group, the wire service’s digital righ… Read more »
Jay Walker Goes Nuclear: Priceline Founder Sues More Than 100 Companies
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Is Jay Walker jealous of Paul Allen? Allen got a lot of press when he sued 11 big internet companies last year, essentially saying he patent… Read more »
More Changes At Disney Online; Luckett Leaving, Maigret To Lead Innovation
So far the top jobs in the *Disney* Online re-org have gone to Disney (NYSE: DIS) newcomers — Mark Walker to head Disney.com, Brooke Chaffi… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-04-11
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» When SB Nation head Jim Bankoff was at AOL (NYSE: AOL) in 2005, he helped manage the acquisition of Endgaget — now he’s brough… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 03-30-11: Google In-App Payment Users; Tablets; Three
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Google’s Android in-app payments service gets some early users — and maybe some confus… Read more »
Pitaro Brings In Walker To Remake Disney.Com
Jimmy Pitaro is bringing on one of his top content execs from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) days to remake the Disney (NYSE: DIS) brand online. As SVP… Read more »
ESPN Adding Web TV Show, Apps In UK
ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is launching new UK services that begin to suggest a two- or more-screen strategy.
The sportscaster will this weekend laun… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-17-11
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» Viral Videos Catch On That Only Hint at a Sponsor’s Purpose
» Tablets For All! (And Especially Apple)
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IAC Adds Eisner To Its Board
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A high profile addition to IAC’s board: Michael Eisner. The former Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO will become the thirteenth member of the company’s… Read more »
Disney Interactive Cuts Staff By Another 2 Percent In Second Layoff Round
In January, Disney (NYSE: DIS) Interactive Media Group quietly laid off around 200 staffers on the video games side following a review by ne… Read more »
Report: Iger, Carey May Exit Hulu Board
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Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) CEO Bob Iger and News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). COO Chase Carey may step down from the board of directors at Hulu, accor… Read more »
Weather Channel Syncs Up With iPad
The Weather Channel has joined the growing list of TV networks issuing free apps that offer content synchronized to the TV. The Peter Lik Co… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown: Apple’s Cloud; Motorola And HTML5 Gaming; Twitter; Samsung
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Our rundown of mobile news to start your day. Today we look at the newest reports around Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and cloud services; Motorola’s n… Read more »
Why Rocketpack Entered Disney’s Orbit
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If you believe Disney’s every digital-minded move is dictated by board member Steve Jobs, note that its latest acquisition, Rocketpack, is i… Read more »
Why Netflix Won’t Do A Tiered Deal With Starz
There’s plenty of time before Starz’s controversial streaming deal with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) runs out, but that hasn’t stopped analysts from… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown: Nokia, Apple iPad Pricing, Square, Disney
Our rundown of mobile news to start your day. Nokia’s MeeGo payoff; what the ASP of today’s iPad tells us about what’s next; Square hits $1… Read more »
Why Studios Should Spark A Premium VOD War
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Dem’s fighting words in The Los Angeles Times from theater-chain honchos, who are threatening to halt exhibition if DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) foll… Read more »
What Netflix And Charlie Sheen Have In Common
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What makes the runaway train that is Charlie Sheen so difficult for CBS (NYSE: CBS) to manage is that he delivers too much value to simply s… Read more »
Twitter Makes Its Oscar Impact
It figures an Academy Awards that opened with co-host James Franco walking on stage with an iPhone in hand–with which he promptly tweeted–… Read more »
Oscar.com Should Have Won Best Supporting Actor
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If you restricted your intake of the Academy Awards to the TV, that’s a shame. Oscar.com offered a rocky, though highly promising, ride to t… Read more »
Why News Corp. Bought Social Gaming Firm Making Fun
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TheDaily and MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) may get all the attention in News Corp.’s digital division, but keep an eye on the company’s growing intere… Read more »
Oscars 2011 Primed For Internet Breakthrough
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The Academy Awards may be as far removed from the decidedly less glamorous world of digital media as you can get. And yet Sunday’s Oscars ha… Read more »
Why Disney Bought Togetherville
Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) has acquired kids-oriented social network Togetherville, which TechCrunch first reported and confirmed. The purc… Read more »
Facebook TV Invasion Looms Via ‘American Idol’ Voting
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Television is often included on that list of industries Facebook executives enjoy casually mentioning will have to rebuild themselves around… Read more »
Why Netflix Can Do Better Than CBS
With Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) finally throwing its hat in the ring into the subscription-video business today, it was nifty timing on Netflix’s p… Read more »
What Bob Iger Values Most In TV’s Digital Future
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If there was any doubt as to how Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO Bob Iger sees the changing TV world, it became abundantly clear in the closing hours… Read more »
Disney Interactive Media Group: The Turnaround Plan
The new chiefs at struggling Disney (NYSE: DIS) Interactive Media Group pledged to put the division in the black by 2013 at an investors con… Read more »
Fox Follows ABC Into iPad Sync Space With ‘Bones’ App
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Make sure to keep your iPad on when watching TV because there may be a trend developing in primetime programs that have companion content sy… Read more »
Disney Interactive Revenues Surged As Segment’s Loss Widened
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All in all, The Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company’s fiscal Q1 was solid, buttressed by strong performance at its cable networks, theme parks a… Read more »
Super Bowl XLV: The Daily’s Gamble
With a value of $3 million and a reach that can’t be matched, an ad on the Fox broadcast of Super Bowl XLV is one of the biggest marketing w… Read more »
TiVo Touts Ad Measurement With Free Web Tool
TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) is so confident about its ability to measure viewing of TV commercials that it’s giving the data away–sort of. The compan… 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 »
