Couple of interesting rebrands in our industry:—Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN), the digital media solutions and IPG company, has come to a macro decision: it is changing its rather obtuse name to another obtuse but more catchy name: Rovi. It will rebrand the company after its annual shareholder meeting on July 15th…if…

Digital-distribution company Macrovision has bought entertainment discovery service Muze for $16.5 million in cash. Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) expects the transaction will add roughly $5 million to its 2009 revenue estimates, which it now projects to come in between $440 million and $480 million. The company anticipates the deal closing by…

Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) posted a $209.9 million ($2.06 per share) GAAP net loss in Q4versus $9.2 million in profits the year before. That loss is tied to $208.3 million in impairment charges related to the goodwill and intangible assets of TV Guide Network, TVG Network and TV Guide Online, all…

The TV Guide saga continues ... Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) has done an about-face and found a very interesting new buyer for its TV Guide Network and TV Guide Online properties—Lionsgate Entertainment (LGE). The TV production firm and movie studio is slated to buy the properties from Macrovision for $255 million,…

Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) is almost done with most of its dispositions, and after selling off its TV Guide magazine for $1 to OpenGate Capital, is getting considerably more for the namesake TV network and the online part: it has sold off TV Guide Network to Allen Shapiro and One Equity…

TV Guide, the print magazine now under the ownership of LA-based private equity firm OpenGate Capital, plans to launch a new website (at TVGuidemagazine.com which it owns) to accompany the mag. The only problem is that TVGuide.com exists, and was not sold by Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) as part of the…

Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN), fresh off its $1 sale of TV Guide magazine, has now sold off its information content access and subscription software division eMeta to Atypon Systems, the e-publishing software firm based in Santa Clara, CA. Terms were not disclosed. MVSN bought eMeta in 2006, for about $35 million.…

Wow, we knew Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) was desperate to get rid of the print version of TV Guide, but didn’t know the extent to which it would go to the liabilities off its books: we reported earlier this week that it was sold to PE firm OpenGate Capital..now the price…

Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) has finally found a buyer for TV Guide magazine, and it not one of the usual suspects: it has divested the magazine only (NOT online) to LA-based private equity firm OpenGate Capital. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it is sure to come out in…

Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) has finally put the book out for the formal sale of TV Guide Network, according to Variety. The channel includes its flagship TV scrolling IPG, distributed in about 80 million homes in U.S., and the much-smaller TVG Horse Race Network, and the story says could fetch a…

A small deal for Macrovision… the company says it has acquired technology and the website of ThoughtWorthy Media, a vertical, TV-related search engine. The agreement was entered back into January by Gemstar (though unannounced until now), now part of Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN). The ThoughtWorthy site (which just redirects now to…

This isn’t a surprise, since News Corp (NYSE: NWS). was a key agitator of Gemstar’s sale to Macrovision… News Corp. has sold its 19 percent stake in the company, Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) confirmed this morning. The buyers were new and existing institutional investors, which should reduce the impact of a…

As we first reported, Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) is indeed looking to sell TVGuide the magazine sans its online home, TVGuide.com. Said CFO James Budge: “We expect the online properties to continue their steady historical growth and planned for a minimum of 10 percent revenue gains for the next few years.”…

TV Guide’s fate still hangs in balance, as Macrovision’s (NSDQ: MVSN) acquisition of Gemstar-TV Guide completed today…the new resulting company will be called Macrovision Solutions Corp. No added word about what will happen to the TV Guide side of the business (print and TV channels), but it is clear Macrovision…

It’s time to put theory into practice: Despite some initial skepticism (that never really went away) Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) shareholders have approved the company’s poorly understood acquisition of Gemstar. A statement put out this evening didn’t specify the vote tally, but despite some initial loud objections, opposition never really materialized.…

So Macrovision’s (NSDQ: MVSN) buyout of Gemstar-TVGuide will go up for approval before shareholders tomorrow. As we reported before, the deal is expected to go through, as some of the shareholder opposition fizzled away. Macrovision has indicated that it is looking to sell off the publishing and cable assets, which…

When Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) announced its intent to acquire Gemstar last December for $2.8 billion, there were considerable doubts as to whether the deal would ever happen—not that Gemstar, 41 percent controlled by News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), would approve the deal, but Macrovision shareholders weren’t seeing the “vision.” The stock…

Digital watermarker Digimarc (NSDQ: DMRC) has announced the sale of its ID Systems business to L-1 identity, a provider of ID and security services, for $250 million in cash and stock. The cash-stock split is roughly 50-50, depending on what happens to L-1 shares. Digimarc says the deal is designed…

Yesterday we reported that Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN), as part of its quest to to pare back on non-core holdings, sold off all 2.01 million of its shares in watermarking firm Digimarc (NSDQ: DMRC) to an unspecified third party. Now we have learned that the buyer is a private equity firm,…