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Actually, he said it's "unlikely," but that's quite possibly just media-titanspeak for "not on your life." The News chief thinks Microsoft will end up walking away, too.... Continued »
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Industry Euphemism of the Day: “Involuntary Separations”
Any hope that my extensive roundup of newspaper cuts just two days ago could be my last on that topic for a while evaporated when I read through the media industry news today.
By now you know the drill. What’s back and white and red all over?
The Orlando Sentinel is cutting 20% of its news staff, […]
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The End of Broadcast TV Nears
Shelly Palmer submits: In case you haven’t noticed, the business of broadcast television is in trouble. Ratings have been trending down year over year for more than 30 years and there’s no end in sight. Most pundits blame this audience fragmentation on outside forces like the proliferation of cable...
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Ford to Retool U.S. Plants For European Cars: Report
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Car maker Ford Motor Co F is drawing up plans to retool American plants to make small, fuel-efficient passenger cars that it mainly makes and sells in Europe, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. The paper said Ford has...
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Has the FCC Gone Communist?
Jeff Jarvis submits: It’s bad enough that the FCC is against free speech and the First Amendment. Now it’s against capitalism. Get a load of commissioner Jonathan Adelstein’s ridiculous conditions on the long, long, long overdue Siriux-XM merger: He told the companies that they would have to agree...
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EU Wants Co-operation With SEC on Rating Agencies: Report
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Commission wants to cooperate closely with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission SEC on the planned regulation of credit rating agencies, the German financial weekly Euro am Sonntag reported. "Because of the importance of the U.S. financial markets...
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House Prices Could Fall For Two Years: Citigroup
LONDON (Reuters) - Citigroup chairman Win Bischoff has warned that house prices in Britain and the United States are likely to keep falling for another two years. The chairman of one of the world's most powerful banks told the BBC in an interview...
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House Prices Could Fall For Two Years
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Citigroup chairman Win Bischoff has warned that house prices in Britain and the United States are likely to keep falling for another two years. The chairman of one of the world's most powerful banks told the BBC in an interview that he...
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Why the New York Times Should Have More Anonymous Sources
Zubin Jelveh submits: To stay competitive. I'll explain why at the bottom of this post, but first: Yesterday I looked at the use of anonymous sources by large news outlets, but today I'd like to go through and be a little more systematic about it. I relied on...
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Google Loses Share as Yahoo, Microsoft Gain: Report
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In a rare slip for Google Inc GOOG, Yahoo Inc YHOO and Microsoft Corp MSFT gained share as Google lost ground in the Web search market in June, industry data released on Friday shows. Monthly data published by audience...
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Comcast video services company acquires video applications startup, Chirp
Comcast-owned video services platform provider thePlatform is set to acquire ?certain assets? of Chirp Interactive, a start up developer of social media video applications and services. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed nor were the specific assets Chirp is selling. Chirp services will be discontinued, although...
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Sirius and XMSR's Six Year Prison Sentence
Gino Lattarulo submits: We have a potential deciding vote on the marriage of Sirius SIRI and XM XMSR. Adelstein says he would vote in favor of the deal as long as the company would agree to a six-year cap on subscription rates as well as relinquish 25 percent of all...
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Internet No Longer Immune to Economic Slowdown
Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Sorry to disappointing everyone, but the evidence today is piling up: the Internet really is a part of the overall economy. While the optimists had hoped that the efficiency of Internet-based advertising would make it a more appealing place to buy ads in a downturn,...
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Merger Watch: Sirius and XM
The M & A Researcher submits: As widely reported and analyzed since yesterday (7/17), Commissioner Adelstein has issued a proposal to approve the companies' license transfer application contingent of significant concessions involving a six-year price cap on subscriptions, 25% channel capacity divestiture, direct enforcement and interoperable devices carrying traditional...
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FCC Commissioner Adelstein Puts Forth Radio Merger Offer
Tyler Savery submits: According to the Associated Press, FCC Commissioner Adelstein has put an offer on the table that would enable the merger to happen. Adelstein, a democrat commissioner, was not widely considered as one of the commissioners that would support the merger. By Adelstein putting an offer on...
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Media General, Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Media General, Inc. MEG Q2 2008 Earnings Call
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YouTube inks video deal with Lionsgate
YouTube is partnering with Lionsgate to host clips from the studio's movie catalogue, in a major shake up in the relations between YouTube and film producers. Under the deal, videos will be accompanied with ads and the firms will share revenues. While YouTube has agreements with a number of...
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What Do You Buy When You Buy a Newspaper Company?
Jeff Jarvis submits: Alan Mutter runs the numbers to see which newspaper companies could be taken private and Mark Potts fears they could be taken private by private-equity blood/cash-suckers. A few examples: Mutter says the Times Company NYT would need to borrow $2 billion to go private, Gannett GCI...
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Why Online Video Business Is a Joke
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: I’ve become reluctant to post much on online video, because invariably if I am not talking about a partner or competitor (of WatchMojo.com’s), it seems as if I am talking to a partner or competitor. Truth is I never am, but it’s hard for the post...
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E3 Gaming Convention: News from Nintendo, Sony, Atari, Disney
Seth Gilbert submits: A lot of industries have trade shows, some more than one. Most are usually meet and greet events, gatherings where people schmooze, where new products are introduced, and where the press and the public get informed. The events provide a platform for marketing and a forum for...
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Publishing in Peril: Rivals Think About Collaborating
Julia Boorstin submits: There's yet more news of trouble in the publishing business. Yesterday morning Gannett GCI reported a 36 percent drop in second-quarter earnings on 10 percent lower ad revenues at its newspapers including USA Today. The company is also recording a pre-tax charge of between $2.6 and...
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Steve Ballmer Plays Defense
Sam Gustin submits: If Steve Ballmer can't have Yahoo YHOO, the last thing he wants is for Yahoo to get AOL. This could explain why AOL executives are in Seattle today, discussing a possible deal with the software giant, even as Yahoo has ramps up its own talks...
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- News Corp. $28.6B
- Time Warner Cable Inc. $15.9B
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