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NBC's newish host of "Late Night" is finding his comedic groove with a series of inspired sketches that exploit his underappreciated talents for mimicry: Last week, he unveiled more spoofs of "The Real Housewives" and "Twilig (Read More)
24/7 Wall St.:
With the passing of each hour, there are more media reports that talks between GE (NYSE:GE) and Vivendi for the French company to sell its 20% of NBCU to the American conglomerate have moved closer to collapse. Without Vivend (Read More)
New York Times:
The sides appear to be at least $500 million apart on how to value NBC Universal, which G.E. is hoping to sell to Comcast, the big cable television company.
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Liberty Media (LINTA) Chairman John Malone today effectively invited Verizon (VZ) and AT&T (T) to make an offer for DirecTV (DTV), the satellite broadcasting he controls.Speaking at a special meeting where holders approved a (Read More)
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While ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) have been grabbing headlines for their online local sports expansions, Fox Sports Net has been rolling out the soft launch of a (Read More)
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I am at Paley Center in midtown Manhattan, on day two of their international media conference. Among the speakers this morning included Jeff Zucker, CEO of NBC Universal (NYSE: (Read More)
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A key idea behind ‘TV Everywhere’ is that subscribers will be able to watch shows not only from the websites of their cable providers but also elsewhere online, including the si (Read More)
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While local media outlets slash sports staffs and travel, national players are coming after fans, ad dollars—and each other. ESPN (NYSE: DIS) already has launched local sports s (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
As Comcast closes in on its acquisition of NBC, one of the looming problems for the cable company is what to do with the NBC network.Read the rest of this story »See Also:Jeff Zucker Inexplicably To Lead Comcast/NBC Venture ( (Read More)
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Yesterday at the Monaco Media Forum I interviewed Jon Miller the head of News Corp NYSE NWS Digital on stage. Below is the full video of it. I grilled him on MySpace’s future the future of Google’s search deal on Mu (Read More)
GigaOM:
Om and Frank Eliason of ComcastOm and I met Wednesday night with Frank Eliason of Comcast, better known as the person behind @comcastcares. Eliason is a genuinely cool guy who started out as the person solely responsible for (Read More)
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Yesterday at the Monaco Media Forum I interviewed Jon Miller, the head of News Corp (NYSE: NWS) Digital, on stage. Below is the full video of it. I grilled him on MySpace’s future, the future of Google’s search deal, on Murdo (Read More)
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Filed under: Earnings reports, Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), Blockbuster Inc 'A' (BBI), Comcast Cl'A' (CMCSA), Media WorldBlockbuster (BBI) is a terrible company and stock. After perusing the third-quarter report, published Friday af (Read More)
24/7 Wall St.:
CBS (NYSE:CBS) and Sirius XM (NYSE:SIRI) pose the greatest investment risks among media companies based on a forensic measure of the transparency and statistical reliability of financial reporting and governance practices acc (Read More)
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After starting his day by making the rounds at the Dow Jones/Nielsen Media & Money conference, Chase Carey, deputy chairman, president & COO of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). took time (Read More)
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Filed under: General Electric (GE), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Market matters, Boeing Co (BA), Comcast Cl'A' (CMCSA), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Merck and Co (MRK), Wells Fargo (WFC), Chasing Value, S and P 500, Stocks to Buy (Read More)
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The big topic on day one of the Dow Jones/Nielsen Media & Money conference among major media execs was the possible NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) sale to Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA). Media (Read More)
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[In progress] Before turning to the fortunes of his own company, Chase Carey, deputy chairman, president & COO of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). offered some thoughts on what a match-up (Read More)
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As expected Clearwire NSDQ CLWR has received commitments of $1.564 billion in financing from Sprint NYSE S Nextel Comcast NSDQ CMCSA Time Warner Cable Intel NSDQ INTC Eagle River Holdings and Bright House Networks. The financ (Read More)