Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) CEO Ken Lowe is betting heavily on international growth over the next year. In a presentation at the UBS Media Week conference, Lowe ticked off some recent deals: last month, the company took a 69 percent stake Indian broadcaster NDTV; it struck a JV with…

When AOL (NYSE: TWX) CEO Tim Armstrong arrived at the company several months ago, he discovered its content and ad systems made up of a patchwork quilt. In a Q&A at the UBS Media Week conference a day before the official spinoff from Time Warner, Armstrong provided an overview of…

Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) CEO John Riccitiello was quite quotable during his UBS Media Week presentation—offering specifics on how EA defines its “digital” business, detailed insights into the company’s layoffs and outsourcing strategies, subtle jabs at Activision’s best-seller Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and even joking about whether Tiger…

CBS (NYSE: CBS) Research head Dave Poltrack thanked UBS for letting him do his annual conference presentation on a Wednesday as opposed to his usual Monday. He needed the chance to recover from a recent trip returned from China. There are many things the U.S. could learn from China, but…

Maybe Ralph de la Vega would have delivered the same presentation to investors and analysts at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference without Verizon’s clever—sometimes brutal—ad campaign targeting network quality. Maybe, but I doubt it. De la Vega came out swinging on the subject, shifting between boasting about the…

As newspapers decide where to draw the paywalls, local media might have an easier time of figuring it out, said Journalism Online’s Gordon Crovitz. In a panel on local media at the UBS Media Week conference, Crovitz—somewhat apologetically—offered his company’s sales pitch tailored to subject at hand. “A decade ago,…

Forecasters at today’s opening session at the UBS Media Week conference said that the magazine category would be down about 4.5 percent this year. Most magazine heads speaking at industry conferences often have to put a brave face on such data and that’s what Stephen Lacy, president of president and…

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The main message NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) president and CEO Janet Robinson wanted to get across to attendees at the UBS Media Week conference was how different the newspaper company is from its publishing peers. Specifically, she highlighted the NYT’s and Boston Globe’s lower exposure to classified ads, which have been…

*Take-Two* Chairman Strauss Zelnick kicked off his presentation at UBS Media Week with a trailer from GTA: The Lost and Damned—a fitting intro, since despite Take-Two’s efforts to differentiate, GTA remains the company’s primary money-making franchise. “Though we’ve made significant progress in diversifying, GTA is definitely the most important franchise…

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Just in case you haven’t heard enough about Comcast’s deal with GE to buy control of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), the sell job continues bright and early Monday morning in New York at the 37th Annual UBS Global Media and Communications Conference. I’ll be there throughout the crowded three days,…