DirecTV Throws TiVo A Lifeline (1)
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DirecTV (DTV) was once TiVo's (TIVO) most important business partner and greatest source of subscribers. That all ended in 2005 when DirecTV said it would stop marketing TiVo in favor of set-tops made by NDS, a unit of News Corp. (NWS) which then had a controlling stake in the satellite TV company. But now DirecTV is controlled by Liberty Media (LBTYA), and the company is going back into business with TiVo in a bigger way: ...
NBC Beijing '08 Online Metrics: High Viewership, Little Revenue (1)
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J.P. Hannan submits:The Wall Street Journal is reporting that NBC's (NYSE: GE) decision to limit the amount of footage from the recent Olympic Games it showed on its websites significantly impacted their online revenues for the games. According to research firm eMarketer, Inc., the network's efforts only brought in approximately $5.75 million in online revenues for the games, a paltry showing for such a major event, if true. Interestingly, the New York Times also weighed ...
TV Networks Reach a Fork in the Digital Road (1)
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J.P. Hannan submits:Last week, Bloomberg reported that "Walt Disney Co. (DIS), the second-largest U.S. media company, may sell its 10 ABC television stations, fetching as much as $4.8 billion, said David Miller, an analyst at Caris & Co. who has covered the company since 2000." This was pure speculation on the part of the analyst based on his own research and not an inside tip, according to Miller. Also in the article, A Disney spokesman ...
Monitor Your Weather with Weather Watcher Live (4)
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Sometimes I’m stuck in the office and don’t have opportunity to check the weather outside. So I’m just sitting there oblivious to the storm brewing outside. Singer’s program Weather Watcher Live is a great take on a weather application for your desktop. Weather Watcher Live is your personal, real-time Windows desktop weather station. View real-time weather conditions in your neighborhood from WeatherBug weather stations, or as reported by NWS. Weather Watcher Live is able to ...
Murdoch: I'll Do Business Anywhere - Except For Russia (NWS) (1)
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While ad sales in the U.S. tumble, Rupert Murdoch is taking great pains to point out that his News Corp. is a global company. He joined yesterday's earnings call (after some difficulty) from Beijing, and spent much of the call talking up his growing interest in India. But there's one country Rupert says he no longer wants anything to do with: Russia, where News Corp. (NWS) is selling its stake in an outdoor advertising company. ...
News Corp: We're Not Talking To Yahoo Or Anyone Else, Because We Don't Need To -- MySpace Booming (1)
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That on-again, off-again interest News Corp. (NWS) has had in combining/spinning off MySpace with AOL, or Yahoo, or MSN? Definitely off again, the company said today. Here's Rupert Murdoch and COO Peter Chernin during the earnings call this afternoon: Chernin: "We're not talking to anyone right now". We've said we'd be interested in opportunistic conversations, "but they obviously went nowhere and we're not talking to anybody right now." Murdoch: "We've already moved on from those ...
Ads Are the Focus in the Midst of Media Earnings (1)
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Julia Boorstin submits: We're mid-way through media earnings, and a distinct trend is emerging: weakness in local ad markets is now spilling over to national cable and broadcast advertising. It hit Viacom (VIA), Disney (DIS), and CBS (CBS), and is likely to also hit News Corp. (NWS), which reports today, and Time Warner (TWX) on Wednesday.The media industry is facing all sorts of hurdles, including increasing fragmentation and the challenge of monetizing content online, and ...
Murdoch Previews News Corp. Earnings: We're OK Except For Local TV (2)
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News Corp. (NWS) reports Q4 earnings tomorrow afternoon, but Rupert Murdoch has already given us a sense of what to look for: Speaking to reporters in India, Murdoch said his media conglomerate was doing OK, except for a lousy performance from Fox's U.S. TV stations. "Our advertisement on television and the Internet is very, very good, except for local television," he said. "Cable networks are all sold out for 12 months," he said, adding that ...
TV Viewers Migrating to Web for Primetime Programming (1)
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Marketing Charts submits: With an increasing number of network television shows available for viewing online, more than 20% of TV viewers watch some amount of primetime programming online, according to a new study by Integrated Media Measurement Inc. (IMMI). The largest segment of online TV viewers are white, affluent, well-educated, working women age 25-44, the study found.Complete Story »
Comscore's Top 50 Websites for June; Travel & Leisure Categories Gain (1)
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Marketing Charts submits: Originally published 7/22/08Just barely, Google clung to its lead as the top U.S. web property after having wrested away the honor from Yahoo three months ago, according to a comScore Media Metrix monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity at online properties. Complete Story »
Thomson Reuters New Channel Won't "Challenge" CNBC (3)
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London's Daily Telegraph reports that Thomson Reuters plans to launch a "business television news channel to rival that of Bloomberg and CNBC." The first part of that may well be true; the second part most certainly is not. We have no doubt that Thomson Reuters may launch some kind of TV channel; since they're already producing plenty of video for syndication, they've got the infrastructure and could do it on the cheap. But it won't ...
Who Will Be Microsoft’s Next Online Chief? McAndrews? Miller? BoomTown? [BoomTown] (2)
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BoomTown was all busy trying to think of execs to replace Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, as pressure mounts on him to right the troubled Internet company. But now, Yang’s position feels safer than ever and it’s his nemesis–Microsoft– that needs a new leader for its long-stumbling online services business. Microsoft (MSFT) was already cracking, according to sources, and had a wish list of internal and external candidates that CEO Steve Ballmer is now considering. Ballmer ...
Schmidt: iPhone good for Google (3)
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By Yi-Wyn Yen HALF MOON BAY, Calif. - Google chief executive Eric Schmidt passed by the Apple store in downtown Palo Alto Tuesday night and saw a line of people waiting outside. Schmidt joked that perhaps Apple (AAPL) fans just like hanging out at the store, but he assumed they were waiting for the next shipment of the iPhone 3G to arrive. The success of the new iPhone has the Google (GOOG) top exec excited ...
Why Dudes Love Hulu: Free Porn (6)
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In "Knocked Up," Seth Rogens' cast of neer-do-well pals have a money making plan: a Web site that catalogs nude film scenes. Looks like Hulu's got the same idea. Last week we pointed out that Hulu users were younger (32) and more male (two-thirds) than we'd previously thought. A sharp-eyed commenter, "Jonathan," posited a theory why: Actually Hulu is being used by these 'young men' to watch porn/nudity. If you check the most popular movie ...
Who's Watching Hulu? A Bunch Of Dudes (7)
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The last time we looked, users of NBC U (GE) and News Corp.'s (NWS) Web TV service Hulu were more likely to be Baby Boomers than Gen Y. In March, Hitwise estimated 47% of visitors were 55 and older. But that sample was pulled while Hulu was still in private beta, and presumably over-represented with executives, researchers, and, er, journalists. Now new research suggests Hulu users are a lot younger: 32 years old according to ...
If You Know the Name of the Movie You’d Like to See, Press ❑ (1)
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Now that Sony has completed its transformation from disruptive innovator to struggling consumer electronics player, it’s embarking on its next big corporate makeover: reinvention as “a global provider of networked consumer electronics and entertainment.” And so the company has begun offering a video-downloading service for its PlayStation 3 videogame console. Announcing the service at the gaming industry’s E3 conference in Los Angeles, Sony (SNE) said TV-show rentals will cost $1.99 per episode and movie rentals ...
Reports: WSJ Thinning Columnist Ranks (1)
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A couple new reports of staff cuts at the Wall Street Journal. Valleywag says the Journal is cutting "Real Time" columnist Jason Fry and George Anders, author of the Carly Fiorina bio Perfect Enough. Portfolio says other business columnists are on their way out, including Carol Hymowitz, who writes the management column "In The Lead," Terry Cullen, who writes the personal finance column "Fiscally Fit," and Tom Weber, co-writer of the "Buzzwatch" blog. The Journal ...
Shocker: Yahoo Shoots Carl Icahn as Microsoft Messenger (1)
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When sources at Microsoft last week told BoomTown that it was going to use Carl Icahn as a kind of messenger for a new ad search proposal, I thought: Uh-oh. And tonight, like clockwork, Yahoo (YHOO) rejected Microsoft’s (MSFT) latest bid to buy its search and advertising search business, which was delivered in conjunction with the billionaire activist investor, who is waging a proxy fight against the company. Why? Well, it’s kind of like sending ...
