Shareholders of Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA), the media holding company, have approved the previously announced plan to split Liberty Capital into two tracking stocks—Liberty Capital and Liberty Entertainment. The move…

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Although they’re not exactly going head-to-head, in assessing Google’s and eBay’s respective attempts at online media buying systems for TV over the past six months, Adweek finds Google (NSDQ: GOOG)…

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Shares of EchoStar Communications (NSDQ: DISH) jumped today on the renewal of rumors that AT&T (NYSE: T) may be eying the company. Stoking the speculation: a research note from Oppenheimer…

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EchoStar (NSDQ: DISH) Communications, which just last night announced plans to acquire Sling Media, said this morning it will explore a possible split into two publicly traded companies, one focusing…

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I caught up with Blake Krikorian, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Sling Media, soon after the company’s announcement Monday evening that it had agreed to be acquired by EchoStar Communications…

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This just in ... EchoStar (NSDQ: DISH) is acquiring Sling Media in a cash-and-options transaction valued at approximately $380 million. The deal announced late Monday evening, is subject to the…

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Place-shifting TV provider Sling Media has tied up with DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) to give the satellite company’s users (not SlingBox users) access to National Football League games, NTV reported. Online…

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I knew coming in that Koreans are among the most intense users of mobile media but two stats offered in the last couple of days put it in bas relief.…

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The conference I’m here for is an adjunct to the BCWW exhibition, a major Asian programming marketplace that draws thousands. It bears a strong resemblance to NATPE, which even has…

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For a while there, MTV (NYSE: VIA) owned the video music world, becoming as much a part of pop culture and music entertainment as the artists it showcased. But, as…

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DirecTV (NYSE:DTV) reported that net income in Q2 dropped to $448 million from $459 million last year, a 2.4 percent decrease the company pinned largely on rising operating costs. Revenues,…

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Sirius Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) narrowed its net loss in Q2 by 44 percent to $134.1 million, or $0.09 per share, from $237.8 million, or $0.17 per share, last year.…

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BSkyB‘s (NYSE:BSY) profit fell 10 percent to £815 million ($1.7 billion) from £877 million ($1.8 billion) for the first half of 2007 due to the cost of building out a…

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As the company continues to wait for federal approval of its pending merger with rival Sirius Satellite Radio, XM Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: XMSR) narrowed its net loss to $176 million,…

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-- Facebook has hired Gideon Yu as CFO...Yu was YouTube’s former finance chief. This means Mike Sheridan, Facebook’s CFO since September, is leaving. And to reiterate, “We’re not looking to…

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Satellite radio companies XM and Sirius are waving around five of FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s favorite words—“a la carte” and “family friendly”—in hopes of gaining approval to merge. The companies’…

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A BSkyB trading update ahead of issuing preliminary full-year results on July 27 underscores the gap between it and Virgin Media ...BSkyB added 207,000 more subscribers to its Sky+ PVR…

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With the UK’s new football season just a few weeks away, media organizations have been jostling for the best soccer content. Virgin Media and the Football League have formed a…

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It isn’t quite Live 8—the vast new Wembley doesn’t even appear to be sold out—but the six-hour Concert for Diana is underway and viewable by just about anyone with cable,…

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-- Hellmann’s Spreads Marketing On Yahoo’s Food Channel: Hellmann’s mayonnaise is sponsoring an entertainment video series on Yahoo’s Food section called In Search of Real Food. The 12-week series is…

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The Freeview digital terrestrial platform has now overtaken BSkyB‘s digital satellite service as the main platform on British TV sets, according to media regulator Ofcom. Its Digital Television Progress Report…

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For more than a year, we’ve been hearing threats to sue Sling Media over its place-shifting technology—and we’ve been hearing execs in sports and entertainment rave about their own Slings.…

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BSkyB’s acquisition in November of a 17.9 percent stake in leading-but-ailing UK commercial TV network ITV, unsurprisingly, has been referred to the Competition Commission. The News Corp-owned satellite broadcaster’s last-minute…

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U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI)—chairman of the Senate’s antitrust subcommittee—opposes the proposed merger of satellite radio companies Sirius and XM and has sent the Justice Department and the FCC letters…

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In the first of two separate pieces of BSkyB news, Times of London, citing unnamed sources, claimed the digital satellite broadcaster is in advanced talks with Italian-owned broadband and telephony…

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