Industry Moves: Channel 4, IPC Media, FT Blog
– Channel 4: Future Media & Technology is being split. Richard Davidson-Houston’s (pictured) new Online team moves to the Creative Division… Read more »
AdMeld Raises $15 Million Round; Time Warner Among New Backers
Ad inventory optimizer AdMeld has raised a $15 million third round as it expects to attract more publishers making the move to online ad exc… Read more »
Turner, Time Inc. Execs Got The SI.com Deal Done; Now About Making It Work
We all have personal soundtracks. Mine started playing Maybe This Time soon after I got off the phone with the top executives responsible fo… Read more »
Updated: Time Warner Tries Again With Turner, Sports Illustrated Sans Cable
Before everyone had the AOL-Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) merger to kick around, there was Turner and Time Warner — the combo that was supposed t… Read more »
Time Magazine Dons An Online Condom
Let’s get the easy stuff out of the way. Time.com didn’t go behind a paywall this week and there aren’t plans for that to happen. Technicall… Read more »
First Look: Slick SI App Matches Expectations With One Exception: No Subs
The Sports Illustrated iPad app hit the iTunes store overnight with lots of glossy features in place — and without an anticipated subscript… Read more »
CNN Will No Longer Use AP Content; Reuters’ Relationship Rekindled
After preparing for some time to rely only on its own resources, CNN will not use any photos, videos or newswire reports from the AP, as the… Read more »
Industry Moves: Rubicon Paris, Edelman Digital, IPC Social, FT Brussels
– Project Rubicon: On its seemingly neverending hiring spree, the ad network optimiser is adding former DrivePM/Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) adve… Read more »
CNN’s Skype Deal Broke UK TV Regulation
Two weeks ago, CNN International was reprimanded by Ofcom because its CNN YouTube Debate on Climate Change programme broke rules barring spo… Read more »
AOL Picks UK Online Editor-In-Chief From Marie Claire
By Steve Busfield: Marie Claire’s online editor, Carla Bevan, is to join AOL (NYSE: AOL) as editor-in-chief of its UK content sites.
Bevan… Read more »
Warner Bros. Assigns Junge To Oversee Online Gaming Push
Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner’s Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, which made a big move into online gaming with the acquisition last month of… Read more »
CNN-YouTube Tie-Up Broke UK Broadcasting Rules
A CNN International debate programme that took viewers’ questions via YouTube broke UK rules by offering product placement and sponsorship t… Read more »
Video: SI’s McDonell Demos Browser Version At Google I/O; iPad App En Route
Sports Illustrated converted some of this week’s issue into a slick in-browser HTML5 edition in time for the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) I/O keynote… Read more »
Mags Look To Facebook To Hawk Print Subscriptions
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There have a been a number of platforms introduced in recent years to use the web to sell magazine subscriptions. But so far, one of the mos… Read more »
Time Warner Strikes ‘TV Everywhere’ Pact With Verizon
photo: Lopez Tonight on TBS
By Glen Dickson: Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), which has been driving cable operators and programmers to make cable network programming online th… Read more »
Time Appoints New Publisher For Mag & Online Sales
Right as the debate about the future of newsweeklies is at its loudest — with Newsweek being for sale — Time (NYSE: TWX) magazine has fill… Read more »
There Goes The Neighborhood: Hachette Moving Into Time Inc.’s Building
photo: RockGroupDevelopment
Here’s an interesting New York real estate story: we’ve heard that Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S will be vacating its long-time 50th St. and… Read more »
Bewkes On CBS-CNN Reports: Talking To All The Players
photo: AP Images
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes isn’t dismissing the possibility of a partnership between CNN and a broadcast news operation but he… Read more »
Ad Recovery At Time Inc., Turner Helps Time Warner Beat Street
photo: Flickr / Michael McDonough
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) handily beat revenue and earnings estimates for the first quarter of 2010, with a profit increase of nearly 10 perce… Read more »
Online Video Monetization Firm FreeWheel Gets $16.8 Million From Disney’s Steamboat, Others
FreeWheel has added $16.8 million in strategic funding from several top investors. The online video monetization startup says its fourth rou… Read more »
Interview: Turner’s David Levy: All March Madness Games Will Still Stream Live
Caught up with a frenetic David Levy long enough to get some answers on the digital aspects of the blockbuster $10.8 billion 14-year deal Tu… Read more »
New NCAA 14-Year, $10.8 Billion Deal With Turner & CBS Changes Terms For March Madness On Demand
photo: NCAA and CBSSports.com
*CBS* Sports will keep the NCAA mens’ basketball championships in its lineup with a deal that marks the end of an era on the air and online.… Read more »
Warner Bros. Buys Online Game Firm Turbine
Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner’s Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group is buying Turbine Inc., the heavily-backed massively-mulitplayer online gami… Read more »
Time Inc.’s Tablet Push Starts With Time Mag App At $4.99 An Issue
photo: Time Magazine's iPad App
Sports Illustrated has been the Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) tablet poster child for months but Time is first to market with an app. Time for iPhon… Read more »
Time Warner Cable Connects On YES’s Live Streaming Service
YES Network has found a fourth hitter for its “TV Everywhere” lineup of live streamed New York Yankees games: Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Cable.… Read more »
HBO In Discussions For ‘TV Everywhere’ Deals: Kessler
Pleased with early “TV Everywhere” returns from its relationships with Verizon FiOS and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), HBO is moving toward deals wi… Read more »
Blockbuster To Get New Warner Bros DVDs Four Weeks Before Netflix/Redbox
This surely isn’t the four weeks of Advent, but nevermind, at least Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) gets some breathing space it desperately needs.… Read more »
@ Media Summit: The Medium Isn’t The Message; The Brand Is
One of the favorite sports of most media conferences these days involves trotting out Wired editor Chris Anderson’s “freemium” idea — which… Read more »
@ Media Summit: CNN’s Klein: Fox News Isn’t Our Biggest Competitor — Facebook is
It’s the Bloomberg BusinessWeek Media Summit now, but the two-day conference is still at the McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) Building. CNN President… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Vodafone/Foursquare, FoneStarz/Disney; 3UK/Warner Bros
photo: Foursquare
– Vodafone/Foursquare: A European operator deal for the location-aware mobile social media app. Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) UK customers can now “… Read more »
Cablevision Sees Alternative Path To Entering The Wireless Market
Cable operators are looking for ways to enter the wireless business as consumers disconnect their landline phones in favor of cell phones, a… Read more »
SI.com Follows Swimsuit Success With Video Plunge
photo: SI.com Video
If Sports Illustrated (NYSE: TWX) wasn’t already serious about getting into online video, these numbers probably would have management scram… Read more »
SI Swimsuit 2010 App Freemium Strategy Paying Off With 10 Percent Conversion
The Sports Illustrated (NYSE: TWX) swimsuit issue’s Midas touch continues: three weeks after launch, SI has delivered nearly 570,000 downloa… Read more »
TV Guide Online’s Greenberg Takes Top Digital Post At Time Inc. Lifestyle Group
Paul Greenberg (image, left) is leaving his job as EVP/GM at TV Guide Online to become digital president of Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.’s Lifestyl… Read more »
Warner Bros Takes Control Of Batman Game Maker Rocksteady
Already an investor in TT Games, Snowblind Studios and Midway Games assets, Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) Home Entertainment is buying further in… Read more »
Video: NBA’s Bryan Perez: 28 Percent Of Advertisers Who Cross Platforms Count For Bulk Of NBA Ad Rev
While millions of people were tuned into the opening ceremonies and first weekend of the Winter Olympics, the National Basketball Associatio… Read more »
Video: HBO’s Eric Kessler On HBO Go; Cinemax Go On The Way
Two years after HBO started a small trial of HBO Broadband, the Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) premium net is going live with HBO GO on Verizon FiO… Read more »
Redbox Drops Warner Bros. Lawsuit; Accepts Extended DVD Window
photo: Eddie Does Japan
Redbox has ended its lawsuit against Warner Brothers Home Entertainment and will give in to the Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) unit’s demands for a… Read more »
Updated: Former SI Digital Head Jeff Price Joins Sporting News As President & Publisher; Interview
Jeff Price is back in the sports media biz — and this time his responsibility stretches across all platforms. Price, who left as president… Read more »
Time Warner’s Bewkes Plans More International Expansion For Time Inc., Cable Channels
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In detailing what helped Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner’s return to profitability, CEO Jeff Bewkes started the Q4 call insisting that the company h… Read more »
