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Back To The Future
2008-06-02 14:05:00 Time Warner and GE goin' to The Chapel of Love? Yeah, yeah, yea-yeah-yeah. Newsweek: A goal for GE would be to avoid the huge tax bill it would incur in selling NBC Universal outright to Time Warner in a transaction valued in the tens of billions of dollars, say the sources familiar with the situation. One model for such a transaction might be the deal GE struck in 2003 to bulk up NBC by combining it with Universal, then owned by Vivendi. That combination left the French company with a hefty, though minority, 20 percent stake in NBC Universal. Under a similar scenario, Time Warner and GE could combine most, if not all, of their entertainment operations into a newly formed separate company, in which Time Warner would be the majority owner. The bet is investors would better recognize the value of a pure entertainment entity with big media brands, propelling the stocks of parent companies Time Warner and GE. And if that happens, the two Jeffs might just live out their corporate car...
By: Chickaboomer
Newsprey
2008-04-22 17:18:00 Rupert Murdoch's media blob consumes Newsday. $580 mil.
By: Chickaboomer
Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age
2008-03-31 18:55:00 MEDIA OWNERSHIP AND DEMOCRACY IN THE DIGITAL INFORMATION AGE combines a detailed review of First Amendment jurisprudence with rigorous economic analysis to demonstrate the continuing need for structural limits on media ownership to promote democratic discourse.
By: Asiaing.com
Earthworm Jim Designer: Media Ownership Is A Dying Concept - SendMeRSS
2008-01-03 22:03:00 Earthworm Jim Designer: Media Ownership Is A Dying Concept Earthworm Jim designer Dave Perry believes the "concept of [media] ownership is going to go away" thanks to the proliferation of online distribution. In an interview with Gamasutra, Perry said that online distribution's ability to give people games, film and music on demand would crush the traditional distribution methods in much the same way that Netflix's DVD-by-mail business model has trounced video mega-chain Blockbuster. According to Perry, Netflix's ability to give him whatever film he wants, whenever he wants is a precursor to online distribution removing the need for people to own anything. When people are able to acquire any media instantly, there will simply be no need to keep a collection of DVDs, CDs or games.I agree fully with Mr. Perry with one caveat: digital distribution's proliferation serves as an introduction to the ease of piracy for the average person. If online downloads become the ...
By: Online Games
Media Matters
2008-01-03 16:10:00 Clear Channel Tee Vee prez & ceo Don Perry bails (or is pushed) from his gig after two years to "pursue the next phase of his broadcast career." Fox BusinessRadio Daily News names no one as 2007 radio person of the year. But 2008's winners, the envelope please, are: The fired and laid-off employees of Clear Channel, CBS Radio, Citadel, Emmis, Cumulus and other large, medium and small market radio stations who have devoted their immense talents to broadcasting.""The recipients of this year's award are not victims, although many have suffered from poor management and programming decisions in an industry that, as a whole, but not necessarily individually, has lost its way in the dizzying maze of technological advances in audio, video and the Internet that have occurred during the past five or more years...The streets of the broadcasting industry are paved with stories of individual and collective failures that have led to great successes. It is the hope of RDN that those who hav...
By: Chickaboomer
Hard Core
2007-12-23 15:16:00 Merry Christmas, eight Fox Tee Vee stations! Rupert's cooked your goose for $1 bil leaving News Corp. with 27 O & Os. Wash Post Murdoch pimp: Rupe's stragegy is to get rid of "low growth, non-core assets." Translation: It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ka-ching.Buyer Oak Hill Capital Partners snapped up nine New York Times-owned TV stations earlier this year for a half bil.Media/telecom is one of six target-rich industries mined by Oak Hill investment vultures.
By: Chickaboomer
Sound Bites
2007-12-20 19:13:00 What's so shocking about this? Gannett and Media General CEOs kiss the ring of FCC czar Kevin Martin. BloombergThe New York Times bows to WH pressure and changes a headline on yesterday's story on the destruction of those torture tapes. Politico It doesn't alter the salient point that Bush lawyers told the CIA to get rid of the damning evidence. WH press babe Dana Perrino went batshit yesterday but only on the headline. Clever, eh? We hear that the short-fingered vulgarian Donald Trump is the first guest on Letterman when he returns. The New York Times wonders what "gets" these late night shows will snag during the strike.
By: Chickaboomer
The Man From Vlad
2007-12-19 18:16:00 FCC boyish thug Kevin Martin was on last night's Bloomberg TV "Money & Politics." Read the transcript at Inside Cable News. Martin's favorite word: "Oh." CNBC counters TIME mag's Person Of The Year - the corrupt killer Vlad "The Impaler" Putin - with... drum roll... The American Homeowner. CNBC The American Homeowner apparently is not resonating with CNBC voters. The online poll shows only seven percent agree. A majority think TIME picked the wrong dude. TIME admits Putin is "not a Boy Scout." Either is Al Gorgasm, runner up. Rather telling that there is no mention of Putin as TIME's main man in Russian goverment-run media Pravda, Itar-Tass, and Interfax. Would you like to know why? The TIME piece on Putin is far from a Russian media whitewash.
By: Chickaboomer
Martin To Critics: Drop Dead
2007-12-18 20:48:00 Barack Obama assails the FCC for backing Goliath v David. B & C The bane of FCC head trip Kevin Martin's existence, Democratic FCC commish Michael Copps called today's vote to relax media ownership rules a "shiny gift for big media and a lump of coal for the rest." Media Access Project's Andrew Schwartzman on his nemesis Martin: "He caved in to lobbying from the media giants, giving a pass to them so that they can retain TV and radio stations they were supposed to have divested months and years ago. And he is even giving Rupert Murdoch a new crack at keeping two huge TV stations in New York despite his acquisition of The Wall Street Journal."NYT Even the Murdoch-pimping paper weighed in. NYPMAP to Kevin: See ya in court! Bloomberg reported yesterday that 25 senators sent Martin a letter urging him to delay the vote or else! Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici: "It wasn't pretty but Kevin Martin got the job done."
By: Chickaboomer
Stopping the FCC from Consolidating Media Ownership
2007-11-27 18:59:00 Bush's FCC chairman, Kevin J. Martin, announced his intention to push through new plan to relax media ownership laws in October;The head of the Federal Communications Commission has circulated an ambitious plan to relax the decades-old media ownership rules, including repealing a rule that forbids a company to own both a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same city. Kevin J.
By: Mike Kuykendall
Barack Obama: FCC Policies Must Encourage Media Ownership Diversity
2007-10-23 04:20:00 I neither need nor desire your 'help' Mr. Obama... When will the left quit babysitting us and telling us how stupid we are? The following piece from BarackObama.com only seems to further push the lefts arrogant insistence that I am incapable of making decisions for myself. In addition the flip side of that coin, and this would piss me off even more, is the way they tell minorities that they are incapable of success without the help of the left. And the truly sad part is that many people have bought that bunch of nonsense hook, line and welfare check. Forcing the FCC to encourage more diversity in media ownership is just a continued hacking away at our freedom of choice in business. And then to have the left pat me on the head and tell me how they are going to help me in the business world I am incapable of competing in would just plain outrage me. Who was it that said something about "the soft bigotry of low expectations"? I neither need nor want your mommy governmen...
FCC Hearing on Media Ownership today
2007-09-20 15:39:00 Today's the day to begin making the nation's media more equitable. The FCC will host a hearing in Chicago to take public testimony as it reviews its media ownership rules. This is hugely important: removing the radio ownership caps lead to the rise of Clear Channel's radio empire and a lack of diverse media voices in many cities. If you want to testify at the hearing, you must sign up. Here's the e-mail: fcc504@fcc.gov. The hearing will be held at the PUSH Rainbow Coalition headquarters in on the South Side at 4 p.m.Here's a great Pitchfork piece on the hearing.www.futureofmusic.org
Foreign Media Ownership in China
2007-08-11 09:34:00 Tom Doctoroff, Greater China CEO and Northeast Asia Director of JWT (http://www.jwt.com) shares his insights on why China will… Read Original Post Here
Workshop In preparation for FCC Hearing on Media Ownership
2007-04-24 13:36:00 Of interest to folks who might be going to the FCC Hearing mentioned earlier in the blog, the Free Press and Tampa Educationtional Cable Consortium are presenting a workshop to help people better understand the issues and prepare their testimonies for the event. It takes place at 703 N. Willow Ave, Thurs. April 26 at 7p.m. Call (813)254-2253 for more info. As a reminder, the FCC Hearing on Media Ownership takes place at The Performing Arts Center, Ferguson Hall, 1010 Nothwest Corner of MacInnes Place from 4-11p.m, Monday, April 30. It is the only presentation in Florida. |
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