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Ottaway Papers Say News Corp Has Taken Chain Off The Market - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 01 Jul 2008 04:41 PM PST

News Corp is no longer trying to sell Ottaway Newspapers ... E&P reports that Marianne Stanton, editor and publisher of Ottaway’s Nantucket newspapers, told her staff Tuesday afternoon that “we’re…

FIM Moving To New LA HQ In Playa Del Rey; Consolidating All LA Offices - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 30 Jun 2008 07:13 PM PST

Fox Interactive Media (NYSE: NWS) is celebrating its third birthday* by finally announcing a new headquarters that should be big enough to house all of its LA staff in one…

News Corp Taking DRM Firm NDS Private In $3.6 Billion Deal - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 28 Jun 2008 09:45 AM PST

NDS, the UK-based DRM and conditional access firm which is majority owned by News Corp, is now being taken private: News Corp (NYSE: NWS). is teaming up with Permira Advisers,…

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Industry Moves: WB; Rotten Tomatoes; IAB; ESPN; MSN UK - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 26 Jun 2008 09:46 PM PST

-- WB: Jacqueline Jourdain Hayes has been promoted to SVP-business and legal affairs for the company’s Digital Distribution division. In her new capacity she will provide counsel on acquisition, distribution…

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…

Murdoch: Digital Could Make Up 75 Percent Of Dow Jones Revs - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 19 Jun 2008 12:59 PM PST

Dow Jones gets about half of its revenues from its digital operations right now, and within a few short years, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). CEO Rupert Murdoch expects his subsidiary…

The New MySpace Homepage Is… - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 18 Jun 2008 02:24 PM PST

...live now, the one we mentioned in a post last week. The takeover advertiser for today is The Dark Knight, the Batman movie from Warner Bros.

MySpace Biggest Chance At Hitting The Refresh Button: Relaunching Homepage and Other Functions - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 12 Jun 2008 08:58 PM PST

MySpace, which realized late last year that it needed to hit the refresh button on its design, layout and functionalities after years of bandaging services together, is now about a…

Viacom Gives In; To Offer Comedy Central Shows on Hulu - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 09 Jun 2008 10:06 PM PST

After lots of posturing over the last year, Viacom (NYSE: VIA) has given in and will start syndicating two Comedy Central shows through NBCU-FOX JV video service Hulu. It will…

Industry Moves: Fox Appoints Erik Moreno As New SVP Of Corp Dev - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 09 Jun 2008 03:26 PM PST

Fox Networks Group has added more arsenal on its corp dev/M&A side: it has appointed Erik Moreno as its new SVP, reporting to Mike Lang, the EVP of the corp…

WSJ To Sever Ties With Breakingviews; Selling Its Minority Stake? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 06 Jun 2008 08:26 PM PST

The Wall Street Journal, now part of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). is going to stop carrying the long running Breakingviews daily opinion columns in its paper, reports Guardian. WSJ Europe…

News Corp. Sells Macrovision Stake; Puts A Bad Investment Behind It - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 06 Jun 2008 06:11 AM PST

This isn’t a surprise, since News Corp (NYSE: NWS). was a key agitator of Gemstar’s sale to Macrovision… News Corp. has sold its 19 percent stake in the company, Macrovision…

RedLasso To Networks: Bloggers Love Us; Brings In Ex-CBS Vet As Advisor - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 29 May 2008 01:55 PM PST

It looks like RedLasso, the fast growing video embedding service, is ready to play a game of high-stakes brinksmanship with the networks. Last week CBS (NYSE: CBS), NBC and Fox…

FiLife: DJ-IAC JV Coming In Weeks; Over A Year In The Works - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 27 May 2008 03:43 PM PST

Well look at that: FiLife, the personal finance JV from IAC (NSDQ: IACI) and Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), says it’s almost ready to launch. In a blog post, editor Dave…

Updated: Wall Street Journal To Drop, Well, Wall Street - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 22 May 2008 08:30 PM PST

Updated: The full memo, below. The Wall Street Journal is making the anticipated move from Wall Street/Financial Center, to midtown. About six months after being bought by News Corp (NYSE:…

Networks Accuse Video Sharer RedLasso Of Breaking Copyright Laws - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 20 May 2008 04:12 PM PST

Last November, we wrote about the $6.5 million funding of RedLasso, a video sharing platform for professional content, which promised control and revenue sharing for content creators. RedLasso embeds have…

Thomson Named DJ Editor-In-Chief, WSJ Managing Editor; DJ Head Hinton Adds Publisher Title - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 20 May 2008 03:37 PM PST

The Murdochization of the Wall Street Journal is complete: publisher Robert Thomson is ceding that role to Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton and switching roles officially to managing editor of…

CBS Gets Backdoor Into Hulu, Sort Of; Hulu Expands Distribution - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 20 May 2008 12:24 PM PST

During the TV upfront period, which began last week, online publishers have realized they have to try a little harder to capture advertisers’ attention. With that likely in mind, Hulu…

.Fox Networks Aims Investment-focused Ad Net At Latin America - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 19 May 2008 05:27 AM PST

Today’s latest ad network launch comes courtesy of Fox International Channels’ .Fox Networks, which has formed Worthnet.Fox, a vertical ad net focused on financial news and investment advice online. At…

Facebook Agonistes: Advertisers, Adults, Developers Pulling Back; Banking On Global - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 14 May 2008 10:28 AM PST

While it looked as if Facebook might have rebounded quickly from its Beacon debacle last fall, Fortune contends the revolution is steadily losing steam. The site grew 12-fold since opening…

Ad Industry Roundup: DVRs; Online Ad Prices; Starcom MediaVest; Platform-A - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 13 May 2008 06:55 AM PST

-- DVR viewers watch online ads, but don’t pay attention: Google-owned DoubleClick’s research arm, Performics, recently completed a survey of DVR owners that acknowledges wide ad-skipping. But the study makes…

After MySpace And Facebook, Google Completes Open Trifecta - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 12 May 2008 11:46 AM PST

If you must have your news accompanied by a gripping narrative, then you could say that on back-to-back-to-back business days, MySpace, Facebook and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) all announced new social…

Social Networks And Profitability: Facebook, MySpace Look Beyond Ads - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 12 May 2008 11:40 AM PST

Much has been made about Facebook’s $15 billion valuation, but when will it start making some actual profits? Mike Murphy, the social net’s VP of media sales, tells USAT that’s…

Updated: News Corp. Withdraws Bid For Newsday; Cablevision Founder C. Dolan Confident; Deal Today? - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Sun 11 May 2008 11:42 PM PST

Update: A slew of reports Sunday from a variety of media outlets (who could all be talking to the same person as far as we know) claiming that a deal…

Blinkx Rises And Falls On Mystical Google-News Corp Acquisition Chatter - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 09 May 2008 06:41 AM PST

Market speculation from an Investec analyst (via Bloomberg) that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) or News Corp (NYSE: NWS) may buy voice recognition-based video search index Blinkx did wonders for the company…