Media Summit NYC

@ Media Summit: CBS’ Moonves: We Still Like Hulu, But We’ll Continue Going It Alone - For Now - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 13 Mar 2008 06:18 AM PST

As a self-described “old TV guy,” Les Moonves, president and CEO, CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS), probably has some personal reasons to feel mildly defensive when he’s repeatedly asked about the…

@ Media Summit: Disney’s Iger: ‘Will Buy Something’ That Adds Value—AOL Not On The List - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 12 Mar 2008 06:15 AM PST

Bob Iger, Disney’s president and CEO, has a Facebook page, but he only has two friends. He tells John Byrne, executive editor, BusinessWeek, in a Q&A at the opening of…

@ Media Summit: Online Publishers Hope To Compete With and Attract Advertisers With Customization - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 09 Feb 2007 05:15 AM PST

With marketers able to craft their own interactive environments, the most important sources of revenue for editorial websites are also becoming rivals—possibly rendering online publications less necessary. How to maintain…

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@ Media Summit: Murdoch On Newspaper Future: It Scares Me; Tribune Bid Evaporating - 3 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 08 Feb 2007 07:07 AM PST

Rupert Murdoch’s minority bid along with the Chandler family for the Tribune Company is probably not going anywhere, the News Corp. chairman and CEO told the packed house at the…

@ Media Summit: Without A Seamless Model For Digital Revenue, Costs Will Rise - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 07 Feb 2007 01:55 PM PST

The costs of securing ownership rights for TV, film, music and photographs and any other media that can be digitized will rise significantly this year, as the industry will continue…

@ Media Summit: Yahoo CSO: Will Host Its First ‘Infront Before The Upfront’ Next Week - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 07 Feb 2007 12:35 PM PST

What keeps Wenda Harris Millard, Yahoo’s chief sales officer, up at night? The fear that media buyers and sellers will define the digital ad space according to the rules of…

@ Media Summit: User-Generated Content Is The New Punk Rock - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 07 Feb 2007 11:30 AM PST

Jon Fine, BusinessWeek’s media columnist, hosted a freewheeling (though sometimes rambling) McGraw-Hill Media Summit panel on user-generated media. The discussion generally centered on issues of whether the form can be…

@ Media Summit: Barry Diller’s Keynote: Future of YouTube: I have No Clue - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 07 Feb 2007 06:23 AM PST

In the very full auditorium in the McGraw-Hill Building (when will they move this conference to a bigger hotel...spend some money, will ya?), where Barry Diller is getting ready to…

@ Media Summit: Movies On Demand: The Hot Button Issues of Internet vs Cable Vs Telco - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 12 Feb 2006 05:04 PM PST

Compared to the mobile music panel (see post below), this one was minimally moderated, and yet turned out to be a hugely enjoyable one (the whole session was centered around…

@ Media Summit: Mobile Music: The Issues For 2006 - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 12 Feb 2006 04:04 PM PST

At the Media Summit in NYC last week, a very well moderated panel on mobile music and the revenue generation issues. Among the panelists included Thomas Gewecke, SVP, Digital Business…

Coverage From Day Two @ Media Summit NYC - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 09 Feb 2006 08:03 PM PST

I know all of you are looking for coverage from day two of the Media Summit in NYC...which finished Thursday. I have been busy with meetings, and frankly, half-dead. Also,…

@ Media Summit NYC: Some Buzz From There - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 08 Feb 2006 07:04 PM PST

So if you’re wondering why I haven’t posted more from the Media Summit in NYC, well, it was a rather disappointing day one. Doing it at the McGraw-Hill building is…

@ Media Summit NYC: State of the Industry, From Media Toolheads: Audio - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 08 Feb 2006 07:03 PM PST

It was an interesting day one closing panel at the Media Summit in NYC...one which had some powerhouse names on it. Included Michael Wolf, COO, MTV Networks; William Cella, CEO,…

@ Media Summit NYC: Quote OF The Day - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 08 Feb 2006 07:03 PM PST

Andrew Lippman, the director of Digital Life at MIT Media Lab, had this killer line, and if you think about it, has many interpretations and nuances: “The future is open,…

@ Media Summit NYC: Comcast CEO Brian Roberts - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 08 Feb 2006 07:03 AM PST

Reached the Mc-Graw Hill building ten minutes into Comcast CEO Brian Roberts’ opening keynote interview. The first thing I hear is him dissing the telcos, and then gives some anecdotal…

Tomorrow: @ Media Summit in NYC - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 07 Feb 2006 08:03 PM PST

Rafat’s at the jam-packed Media Summit in NYC. We’ll cover it in our by-now-trademarked fashion...you know what that means: speech/panel coverage, audio, interviews, pictures, gossip and everything else in between.…