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Industry Moves: CNN; OK; Quantcast; Sci Fi; Lifetime; Epic - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 03 Sep 2008 12:13 PM PST

-- CNN: The company’s managing editor for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Nick Wrenn, has been promoted to the new position of VP of CNN International Digital services. Reporting to…

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CNN: We’re Staffing Up; Call Goes Out For ‘All-Platform Journalists’ - 4 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 12 Aug 2008 01:00 PM PST

While most media job news stories tend to be about newspaper layoffs these days, CNN has something positive to announce for a change. The Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) company’s Turner…

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10-Q Watch: TWX: Turner Wants To Sell GameTap; No Deal Yet; Takes $18 Million Charge - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 06 Aug 2008 12:50 PM PST

Buried in the Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) 10-Q filed today—a note that the company took an $18 million charge for Turner Broadcasting’s GameTap, its much ballyhooed online video-game service that…

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Earnings: Time Warner Inches Past Estimates; AOL Flat On 2 Percent Ad Growth - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 06 Aug 2008 03:44 AM PST

Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) reported Q2 revenue of $11.55 billion, ahead of estimates of $11.45 billion, and a 5 percent increase from $10.98 billion. Op income for the quarter was…

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Industry Moves: ProQuest; Powered; TokBox; Turner Sports; Sony BMG; Peer39 - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 21 Jul 2008 03:51 PM PST

-- ProQuest: Media exec Gordon Crovitz has joined ProQuest’s board of directors. After leaving his posts as publisher of WSJ and president of Dow Jones’ (NYSE: NWS) Consumer Media Group…

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Yahoo And Turner In Sports Ads And Content Deal; Yahoo Launches Games Site—400 Will Have Ads - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 10 Jul 2008 04:37 AM PST

Turner Broadcasting will rep ad sales for various pages across Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Sports, per a new agreement announced this morning. Under the deal, Turner will have exclusive representation over…

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Industry Moves: Bryan Perez New Head Of NBA Digital - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 07 Jul 2008 06:19 AM PST

It’s taken a few months, but Turner Broadcasting and the NBA have a new head of NBA Digital: Bryan Perez, most recently CEO of Live Nation’s Global Digital division. As…

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Turner’s Ad Net Strategy: No To ‘Pork Bellies,’ Yes To Premium - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 02 Jun 2008 06:11 AM PST

Turner appears to be heeding the warning Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia’s (NYSE: MSO) Wenda Harris Millard gave to major web publishers this past spring: don’t sell all your ad inventory…

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AOL Continues Building Out Living Network, Meet ParentDish - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Sat 17 May 2008 10:00 AM PST

AOL is the midst of a series of site rollouts and this week’s latest, ParentDish.com, is starting off with a partnership with Warner Bros. TV Group sibling MomLogic. The primary…

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Sex And The Single Site: Turner’s TheFrisky Likes The Single Life, For Now - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 16 May 2008 12:32 PM PST

Last month, after AOL’s (NYSE: TWX) stealth work on an edgy women’s lifestyle site, one of our readers pointed us to TheFrisky.com as a beta version of the site AOL…

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Turner Upfront: We’ve Got Contextual Ads! For TV! - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 14 May 2008 06:05 AM PST

Not all the networks were skimping on their presentations to advertisers this week. David Levy, president of Turner Broadcasting Sales and Turner Sports, kicked off the Time Warner (NYSE: TWX)…

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Another One Bites The Dust: Turner Folds Comedy Site SuperDeluxe Into AdultSwim.com - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 07 May 2008 12:39 PM PST

Yet another comedy site fails to deliver its overpromise ... paidContent has learned that Turner told staff today it is folding SuperDeluxe.com into AdultSwim.com, and laying off much of the…

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Industry Moves: Turner’s Kevin Cohen Leaves To Launch Company With Father, Former Sen. Bill Cohen - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 28 Mar 2008 12:02 PM PST

Kevin Cohen, the go-to guy for digital at Turner Broadcasting long before most of the execs there realized it mattered, is leaving to launch a new company with his father,…

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SI Opens The Vault—And Treasure Seekers Follow - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 25 Mar 2008 06:55 PM PST

A few feet from where I’m typing this lies 40 years worth of Rolling Stone—not in stacks of paper, but DVDs nestled in a box meant to resemble a coffee-table…

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@ NBA All-Star Weekend: Back In The Big Easy - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 14 Feb 2008 08:53 PM PST

I’m in New Orleans for the annual NBA Tech Summit Friday morning, writing this in the corner of an oddly low-key Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) party at Republic in the…

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CNN’s Cit-J Video Site iReport Launches - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 13 Feb 2008 12:46 PM PST

As we reported earlier this week, CNN’s ambitious citizen journalism site iReport.com has launched today. Less prominent CNN branding, which makes it interesting because of CNN/Turner’s efforts to develop it…

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Turner, NASCAR Expand Digital Deal; TBS To Run NASCAR.com Through 2014 - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 22 Jan 2008 11:26 AM PST

Last week, Turner Broadcasting System shook up its management and announced a “practical” JV with the NBA to operate its domestic digital properties. Now, the Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) unit…

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Updated: NBA, Turner Partnering On NBA Digital: Stern: ‘Practical Joint Venture’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 17 Jan 2008 08:54 AM PST

The National Basketball Association and Turner Broadcasting System will jointly manage the NBA’s domestic digital businesses, starting in full with the 2008-09 season and running through the 2015-16 season. Early…

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NBA And Turner To Make Digital Management Deal Official Tomorrow - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 16 Jan 2008 11:41 PM PST

As we have been covering for the last few months, NBA has been in talks to hand over its digital operations to Turner, and the two will make it official…

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Industry Moves: Turner Realigns; Lazarus Out; Koonin, Levy, Snyder Upped - 3 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 15 Jan 2008 10:11 AM PST

Mark Lazarus is out at Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) unit Turner Broadcasting Systems; he was president of the Turner Entertainment Group. Three of his direct reports are being promoted and…

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Turner May Snatch Away MLS Contract From MLBAM - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 23 Dec 2007 03:56 AM PST

We mentioned earlier in the year that Turner was on the verge of tying up with NBA to run the network’s 12 million-subscriber NBA TV, as well NBA.com. Now it…

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Industry Moves Roundup: Sun-Sentinel; CN; Orlando Sentinel; The Orchard; HipCricket; Google; CBS - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 14 Dec 2007 02:17 PM PST

-- Sun-Sentinel: Tribune-owned South Florida Sun-Sentinel has undertaken a major restructuring of its online unit. Kathy Skipper, the website’s GM and a 24-year Sun-Sentinel vet, has been laid off. Jeff…

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CNN International Creates Digital Production Unit In Reorg, Taking Back Control Of Content - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 14 Nov 2007 10:40 AM PST

CNN Worldwide announced it is embarking on a massive reorg effort to take back control of the content it broadcasts and publishes. It is creating a London-based digital production unit…

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Court TV Fires Half Of their Online Staff; Shifting Trial Coverage To CNN.com - 153 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 13 Nov 2007 03:06 PM PST

CourtTV, which is in the middle of changing its name to truTV, has laid 16 of the 31 people on its online staff as the network shifts its online trial…

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Earnings: TWX: In Last Call As CEO, Parsons Stresses Confidence In AOL - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 07 Nov 2007 08:48 AM PST

Listening to the Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Q3 earnings call now ... I’ll spare you the blow by blow, focusing instead on what stands out. Outgoing CEO Dick Parsons’s main…

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