It’s the Bloomberg BusinessWeek Media Summit now, but the two-day conference is still at the McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) Building. CNN President Jon Klein led off in a Q&A with Bloomberg BW Editor Josh Tyrangiel, talking about the magic—and often illusory—word “synergy.” Klein talked about the ties that the Time Inc.…

Cable operators are looking for ways to enter the wireless business as consumers disconnect their landline phones in favor of cell phones, and seek ways to connect their laptops while on the go. Cox Communications is building its own cellular network from the ground up; and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), Time…

If Sports Illustrated (NYSE: TWX) wasn’t already serious about getting into online video, these numbers probably would have management scrambling: SI.com has served more than 70 million video streams connected to the 2010 edition of the iconic swimsuit issue, roughly double last year’s total. A site revamp launching this afternoon…

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 Lifestyle Group. He’ll start in mid-March and report to Lifestyle Group President Steve Sachs. Time Inc. formed the Lifestyle Group about a year and a half ago…

Already an investor in TT Games, Snowblind Studios and Midway Games assets, Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) Home Entertainment is buying further in to the video games market by acquiring a majority of London-based Rocksteady Studios, the developer that made the Batman: Arkham Asylum game starring WB’s superhero. Group president Kevin…

While millions of people were tuned into the opening ceremonies and first weekend of the Winter Olympics, the National Basketball Association was racking up some winter sports numbers of its own during NBA All-Star Weekend 2010 in Dallas: an NBA-record 17 million-plus video streams, up 20 percent over the 2009…

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 FiOS. Through HBOGo.com, Verizon FiOS subscribers who also get HBO (the companies won’t release that number) will be able to watch 600-plus hours of…

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 longer lead time before the DVD kiosk operator makes its rentals available. The deal calls for new release DVD and Blu-ray titles to be made available…

Jeff Price is back in the sports media biz—and this time his responsibility stretches across all platforms. Price, who left as president of SI Digital last April during a series of changes at Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX), joins The Sporting News as president and publisher. He’s on his way to…

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…

When a quarter is as rough as Q408 was for Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), anything decent is going to look pretty good in comparison. Comparing last year’s $16 billion loss with its massive writedowns to the Q409 net income of $627 million broke the calculator we use for our charts…

		EPS*	Rev. vs QQ408	Net Inc. vs QQ408
TWX	Release		2%	4018%

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

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…

Fortune magazine is bringing back Daniel Roth to serve as managing editor of the business mag’s website, a Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) rep told paidContent. Roth will leave Wired magazine, where he was a senior writer for the past two years. He initially left Fortune as a senior editor in…

Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is buying social shopping site StyleFeeder to add more e-commerce to its magazine mix, starting with InStyle.com. No terms were disclosed, although a source tells the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the deal, that the price ran “well into eight figures.” StyleFeeder has raised $3.5…

eMusic has struck a deal with Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) that will give the independent online music e-tailer 10,000 albums—roughly 150k tracks—from WMG’s catalog, the company said in an e-mail release. The agreement covers titles from WMG’s Atlantic Records, Rhino Records and *Warner Bros.* Records as well as from…

Steve Case kicks off 2010 as guest host on CNBC’s Squawk Box with a look back at the deal that defined the last 10 years in so many ways. Was the AOL-Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) merger the worst deal ever? Case still defends the concept but admits the execution was…

Update: That “brief” extension turned into an all-nighter for *Time Warner* Cable, which is still negotiating with News Corp (NYSE: NWS) and Scripps on behalf of itself and private cable operator Bright House. Check our comments for a taste of what they face if deals can’t be reached and Fox,…

It’s time for that annual New Year’s Eve tradition—the one that doesn’t involve party hats or watching the ball drop in Times Square. Remember last year’s fun with Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and Time (NYSE: TWX)  Warner Cable? The cable operator, now separate from Time Warner, stars in the sequel, this…

Looks like the next arena for celebrity gossip site TMZ may be sports—as in TMZSports.com, a domain registered by Warner Brothers’ Telepictures on Dec. 16.  While TMZ PR declined to comment on “speculation,” a source close to TMZ tells Rafat that “Harvey has always viewed politics and sports as potential…