Warned by an interviewer at today’s Goldman Sachs conference hat he was about to talk about cordcutting, the subject that won’t go away, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes couldn’t resist a bit of a joke. “The cordcutting that won’t go away won’t come either. It hasn’t arrived yet.”

While his counterparts at CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) offer new streaming video deals with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) as bright spots in second-quarter earnings, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes’ focus is more on how his company is expanding access to its own…

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 Jeff Bewkes urging everyone to “put it all on the internet,” the over-arcing message as The Cable Show opened in Chicago today is the…

My first thought when I heard that Jeff Bewkes fired Time Inc. CEO Jack Griffin was a sentence I can’t print here. The second one: maybe he learned something from AOL (NYSE: AOL) after all. According to one Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) insider, Bewkes moved quickly after warnings to Griffin…

If there was ever any doubt that the animus towards Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) runs deeper throughout Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) than chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes, get a load of what one of his top lieutenants had to say at the Citigroup Global Entertainment, Media & Telecommunications Conference on Wednesday…

After trying to determine which seat was the power seat on stage at The Paley Center’s International Council conference, the NYT’s David Carr asked Jeff Bewkes, Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner’s chairman and CEO, about where power resides in the media business today. Bewkes answer was that as companies like Apple…

Early agreements from Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Redbox to delay renting new titles until 28 days after they are first available for purchase in stores is already having positive results for Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner’s film segment, said CEO and chairman Jeff Bewkes. He said that Time Warner was able…

Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes isn’t dismissing the possibility of a partnership between CNN and a broadcast news operation but he took pains in the Q1 earnings call not to single out CBS (NYSE: CBS) as the likely partner. Bewkes mentioned the new 14-year partnership with CBS Sports…

In detailing what helped Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner’s return to profitability, CEO Jeff Bewkes started the Q4 call insisting that the company has completed many of the goals it laid out last year, including cost reductions and the spinoff of Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) and AOL (NYSE: AOL). In…

Jeff Bewkes got rid of that sucker called AOL (NYSE: AOL), so lets give him a big raise, says the Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) board. And so it is. According to an SEC filing late today, the compensation committee made the following changes to Time Warner Chaiman and CEO’s compensation…

I am at the Paley Center in midtown Manhattan, for their big yearly powwow on the future of global media and entertainment, listening to Katie Couric interview Jeff Bewkes and Les Moonves. Among the other questions, an audience member asked about the low ratings of CNN, compared to Fox and…

Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) has four top goals: taking advantage of scale and brands; cost cutting and keeping costs down; international expansion; and finding new business models. Ok, five if you include spinning off AOL. All of them came up in a morning staff memo from CEO Jeff Bewkes timed…

So as we suspected, Time Warner has shot down any speculation about the immediate future of Time Inc: CEO Jeff Bewkes told Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic Monthly‘s “First Draft of History” conference in Washington that the mag giant is not for sale. “People made these rumors because they want…

Updated: With the *Time Warner*Cable separation in the past and the AOL spin on the way, *Time Warner* Chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes very, very carefully laid the groundwork for possible acquisitions today during the company’s Q209 earnings call. In the months following the $9.1 billion special dividend from TWC,…

Dragged down by advertising and subscription losses at *AOL* and Time Inc., Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) saw Q2 operating income two percent down year-on-year to $1.2 billion, on nine percent worse revenue of $6.8 billion… —AOL: Q2 revenue fell 24 percent year-on-year to $804 million, after the exodus of 2.3…

Add HBO and Cinemax to the list of networks taking part in the Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Online On Demand national trial slated to start later this month. The Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) premium networks will start by providing up to 750 hours of programming a month to trial participants who…

The 5,000 Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) subscribers taking part in the company’s planned online VOD trial this summer will have access to 300 movies and some original programming from Starz Entertainment—if they already subscribe to the premium network. The Comcast On Demand Online trial is the first toe in the water…

Sometime this July, 5,000 Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) customers across the U.S. will get the first taste of TV Everywhere—and the first broadband access to select programming from 10-15 programmers, including many who have resisted putting full episodes online until now. As expected Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), whose CEO Jeff Bewkes…

Changes at the top levels of Turner Broadcasting: David Levy adds distribution arm Turner Network Sales to ad sales and sports, a consolidated role that gives him responsibility for Turner’s domestic revenue. Andy Heller, who has headed distribution for the cable programmer for 11 years, moves up to vice chairman—charged…