Icahn Pesters Yahoo Board News Briefing for Friday, May 16, 2008 The Rays, Diamondbacks, Astros, Marlins and Cubs have the best records in baseball on May 16. Who’d a thunk it? Good day. Billionaire investor and corporate pest Carl Icahn filed papers to unseat Yahoo’s...
05.15.2008
CBS Corp. Buys CNET News Briefing for Thursday, May 15, 2008 CBS Corp. is buying CNET Networks for $1.8 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports. CNET Networks’ Web sites, which include CNET, Chow, Gamespot, MP3.com, TV.com, UrbanBaby and ZDNet, will be “combined...
05.14.2008
Analysts Blew It on Cable, DBS, Telco Forecasts News Briefing for Wednesday, May 14, 2008 The housing market collapse has not dented subscriber and revenue unit growth for cable operators, satellite distributors and the telcos' TV services so far this year, surprising analysts and leading some of them to...
05.13.2008
HBO Shows Get Premium Pricing on iTunes News Briefing for Tuesday, May 13, 2008 Cable360 tipster Brain Clark tells us he’s on the run from hit men, who have been hired to prevent him from developing online-ad-skipping software. Good day. Apple is expected to announce today that it will sell...
05.12.2008
Dolans Get Newsday News Briefing for Monday, May 12, 2008 Topic of the morning in the Cable360 newsroom: should Baseball’s Mother’s Day celebration include more than pink bats and wristbands? Good day. Happy broadcast upfronts week! Not really. Owing to the writers...
05.09.2008
Microsoft Charts Next Move News Briefing for Friday, May 9, 2008 Consecutive late nights have the Cable360 newsroom patently ignoring the company’s no slouching rule. Good day. Based on recent movements with potential proxy board members, Microsoft isn’t about to make a...
05.08.2008
Rising Profits for News Corp News Briefing for Thursday, May 8, 2008 Media companies continue to post impressive quarterly earnings numbers. The latest is News Corp., which reported increased profits for its fiscal third quarter. Operating profit at News Corp.’s TV division was up...
05.07.2008
Sprint, Clearwire, Cable Ops Embark on High-Speed Wireless Venture News Briefing for Wednesday, May 7, 2008 A consortium including Sprint Nextel, Google, Intel, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Clearwire announced a plan to build a national wireless network that will deliver video and...
05.06.2008
The Dolans and Newsday: Explaining The Unexplainable News Briefing for Tuesday, May 6, 2008 Microsoft has crafted an agreement with MTV Networks, NBCU and others to sell downloads of TV shows to users of its Zune portable devices, The Wall St Journal says. But will that and allowing Zune users to share their...
05.05.2008
Yahoo Shares Fall, But Will Rupert Give Them a Bounce? News Briefing for Monday, May 5, 2008 Bloomberg reports that Yahoo shares declined 21% in early trading today. Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang reportedly was in a celebratory mood after Microsoft refused to meet his target stock price of $37 and then...
05.04.2008
Weekend Update: Yahoo Too Rich For Microsoft's Blood WEEKEND UPDATE FOR MAY 3, 2008 As we noted Thursday, The Wall St Journal said Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer just might walk away from the Yahoo deal. [WSJ] Today he did. After a Saturday morning meeting with Yahoo in which he raised...
05.02.2008
Investors Hatch Theory Behind Cablevision Stock Decline News Briefing for Friday, May 2, 2008 It’s good-posture Friday in the Cable360 newsroom. No slouching allowed. Cablevision’s stock price has been sinking this year, while Comcast and Time Warner Cable’s stocks have been on the rise, and some...
05.01.2008
Steady Q1 For Comcast NEWS BRIEFING FOR THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2008 Down by 5 with 2 minutes to go and they win; that’s why they’re called Wizards. Good day. Investors should avoid screaming May Day, May Day after reading Comcast’s Q1 earnings report, an analyst...
04.30.2008
Time Warner to Jettison Cable Unit News Briefing for Wednesday, April 30, 2008 The Cable360 newsroom is outraged by the latest divisive dispatches from tipster Brain Clark and has severed ties with him. Good day. As expected, Time Warner Inc. announced this morning as part of its first-quarter...
04.29.2008
Cable Seen as More Vulnerable to Housing Slump News Briefing for Tuesday, April 29, 2008 The economic downturn is hurting cable operators more than it’s hurting the satellite distributors and telcos, according to a Reuters poll of eight analysts. Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cablevision are...
04.28.2008
Wireless Mobilizes Verizon's Quarter News Briefing for Monday, April 28, 2008 Please sign Cable360's online petition to promote the addition of the first Matt Helm movie, The Silencers, to the National Film Registry. Good day. Verizon said text messaging and wireless Web browsing helped drive a...
04.25.2008
Fullbacking: NFL Supports Network NEWS BRIEFING FOR FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2008 With Tricia Helfer joining the cast of USA Network's Burn Notice, you have to think it's going to be a very hot summer. Good day. The NFL has no interest in leaving the cable space despite a year of difficulties...
04.24.2008
Cable's Quad Play at Crossroads News Briefing for Thursday, April 24, 2008 Cable’s “Pivot” wireless joint venture with Sprint has officially ended, long after the service stopped being marketed. The dream of offering a quad play seems very far off, and might have been just...
04.23.2008
Ex-Showtime Exec May Run New Paramount Net News Briefing for Wednesday, April 23, 2008 The new premium channel being launched by Viacom’s Paramount Pictures in conjunction with partners MGM and Lionsgate will likely be headed by former Showtime executive Mark Greenberg, Reuters reports...
04.22.2008
iPhone Lifts AT&T's Q1 News Briefing for Tuesday, April 22, 2008 The Cable360 newsroom's beer and bowling event last night proved catastrophic, as staffers strained back muscles from too much working class posing. Good day. Sales of mobile handsets, including Apple’s iPhone...
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