Entertainment

ABC-Disney Opens Slightly More: Syndicating Full Shows To Veoh, To Buy More Traffic - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 22 Jun 2008 08:15 PM PST

ABC, among the most conservative of online players when it comes to syndicating its own TV shows (but among the most progressive in putting shows within its own branded environment,…

Forget Digital Music, Beatles In Talks For Video Games - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 22 Jun 2008 06:46 PM PST

Beatles representatives, who haven’t yet reached a deal to offer the band’s music online, are now in talks with two video games companies for a Beatles-themed video game, in a…

The Orchard Buys TVT Records Out of Bankruptcy - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 22 Jun 2008 10:54 AM PST

The Orchard (NSDQ: ORCD), the digital music label, has bought out TVT Records after a New York bankruptcy court declared its bid the winner on Thursday. The company will gain…

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MSG’s Website Dispute With NHL: May Lose Control Over Rangers - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 21 Jun 2008 08:07 PM PST

The ongoing saga of Madison Square Garden’s dispute with the National Hockey league continues: New York Rangers, run by MSG LP, which in turn is a Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) Systems…

Apple: A Flat Five Billion - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 21 Jun 2008 07:36 PM PST

[by Paul Resnikoff, Publisher, DigitalMusicNews] Five billion is a large number, in virtually any context. Five billion people is a lot of people; five billion dollars (or pounds or euros)…

Malone Predicts NBC’s Broadband Olympic Strategy Will Flop - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 20 Jun 2008 04:34 PM PST

The man who once predicted a television universe with 500 channels isn’t too thrilled with the internet version. Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) Chairman John Malone, also now the chairman of…

ESPN In Talks With NFL Over NFL Network: Report - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 20 Jun 2008 02:14 PM PST

No independent confirmation of this yet, but WSJ is reporting that ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is negotiating with the National Football League to take control of the NFL Network. That such…

Industry Moves: Changes At FIM’s Scout: SVP Patrick Crumb Leaves For Liberty Media; Husvar New GM - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 19 Jun 2008 03:24 PM PST

Patrick Crumb, the SVP at Fox Interactive Media (NYSE: NWS), and GM of sports site network Scout Media, which FIM bought in 2005, has left the company, and is joining…

@ BMO Media: Bob Bowman, CEO, MLBAM: No Plans For An IPO; Online Streams Don’t Cannibalize - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 19 Jun 2008 02:09 PM PST

“Would it be possible that digital media could do for baseball what national TV did for football?” Bob Bowman, CEO of MLB Advanced Media, asked the question during the last…

Apple Says It Sold 5 Billion Songs; Could Movies Become A $100M Business? - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 19 Jun 2008 10:51 AM PST

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) announced today that it has sold a total of about 5 billion songs, up from the 4 billion mark it announced in Jan this year. The more…

Flash Gamer Mochi Media Raises $10 Million Second Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 19 Jun 2008 08:56 AM PST

Mochi Media, a provider of tools for Flash games including advertising, has raised a $10 million second round from Shasta Ventures and past backer Accel Partners. The company’s previous round…

@ BMO Media: Michael Eggers, CFO, RNWK: Preparing For Games Spin; Growing Subscription Revs - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 19 Jun 2008 08:56 AM PST

Back in May, RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) announced plans to spin off its casual games business and make a filing on that sometime by the end of the year. So why…

YouTube Adds Some Indie Movie Screenings To Line Up; No Change in Video Deals Strategy - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 19 Jun 2008 08:08 AM PST

YouTube has added long form videos/movies in the form of deals with indie filmmakers, and launched its YouTube Screening Room. “While the majority of these films have played at international…

Soul Train Franchise Bought By Intermedia-Backed MadVision; Multiplatform Plans - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 18 Jun 2008 10:16 PM PST

Don Cornelius, founder of the once-famed music and dance program Soul Train has sold the show to MadVision Entertainment, an LA-based company backed by PE firm InterMedia Partners. The iconic…

Sohu Gets Olympics Webcast Rights; Live Broadcasts From Outside Venues Not Decided Yet - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 18 Jun 2008 07:54 PM PST

Sohu (NSDQ: SOHU), the Chinese portal company who already is the online host/content provider for the upcoming Beijing Olympics, has now snagged the rights for the live webcast of all…

Wazoo Sports Raises $2 Million For High School Sports Broadcasting - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 18 Jun 2008 06:12 PM PST

Wazoo Sports, a site that broadcasts high school sporting events online, has raised $2 million from Meritus Ventures. The Kentucky-based company says it will use the funding to expand its…

Global Online Ad Revs To Grow 19.5 Annually To 2012: PwC - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 18 Jun 2008 08:32 AM PST

Despite daily evidence of slowing online ad growth, internet revenues will represent the highest growth levels of overall media worldwide, averaging 19.5 percent annually through 2012, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ annual…

Updated: EA Extends Take-Two Offer Again to July 18; Total Tendered Shares Take A Dip - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 17 Jun 2008 05:37 AM PST

Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) has extended its tender offer for Take-Two again, as the latest deadline passed yesterday. The extension goes for about another month, to July 18. The extension…

Nick Increases Emphasis On Gaming And Virtual Worlds By Carving Out New Divisions - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 16 Jun 2008 09:43 PM PST

MTV Networks’ (NYSE: VIA) Nickelodeon Kids and Family Group is continuing its emphasis on online gaming and virtual worlds by carving out two separate divisions around those efforts, the company…

MP3 Blogs Have Hipster Readers; Make For A Perfect Ad Network - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 16 Jun 2008 07:56 PM PST

Here’s a quick summary of Fortune’s look at the world of MP3 blogs: Sites like Peter Rojas’ RCRD LBL and TheFader.com attract hip readers that advertisers salivate over. But on…

NBCU Takes Majority Stake in Sports Site WCSN; Launching UniversalSports.com - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 16 Jun 2008 01:48 PM PST

NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) has taken a majority stake in Los Angeles-based online and cable sports network World Championship Sports Network, and now the controlling owners of the company along…

Interview: Matt Freeman, CEO GoFish: We’re Not Playing Google’s Game - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Sat 14 Jun 2008 07:42 PM PST

Back in January, Advertising Age named Tribal DDB the global agency of the year—the first digital shop to receive that honor. While the award had more to do with Tribal…

BMG Could Retain Some Euro Assets in SonyBMG Sale; Could Sell For Around $1 Billion - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 13 Jun 2008 08:06 PM PST

In the permutations being worked out for the sale of BMG part of music label SonyBMG, Bertelsmann is looking to retain a stake in the European part of the business,…

Industry Moves: Microsoft Reshuffles Interactive Entertainment With Marketing VP Bell’s Exit - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 12 Jun 2008 01:50 PM PST

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has reorganized its Interactive Entertainment Business, which houses its Xbox and Game Studios units, in the wake of the exit by Jeff Bell, who has served as…

WBTVG Inks Syndication Deals With Joost, TiVo, Veoh, Others - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 12 Jun 2008 09:00 AM PST

Now that its online programming is ready to go, Warner Brothers Television Group has lined up a roster of distribution partners: Dailymotion, Joost, Sling Media, TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) and Veoh…