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Sex And The Single Site: Turner’s TheFrisky Likes The Single Life, For Now - 0 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…

Turner Upfront: We’ve Got Contextual Ads! For TV! - 0 Comments
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)…

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…

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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,…

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…

@ 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Court TV Fires Half Of their Online Staff; Shifting Trial Coverage To CNN.com - 137 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…

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…

Earnings: TWX: Q3 Revenues Up 9 Percent But Profit Drops 53 Percent; AOL Ad Rev Up 13 Percent - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 07 Nov 2007 06:17 AM PST

Time Warner met expectations for Q307 with revenues of $11.6 billion, up 9 percent, and earnings of $0.30 per share. Profits dropped 53 percent from Q206, which included extraordinary gains…

NBA’s TV Partners ESPN and TNT Expand Their Digital Rights - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 31 Oct 2007 09:30 PM PST

We mentioned some part of this story last week (including Turner being NBA.com’s digital production partner), and now, some more formal details: ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and TNT have more digital…

NBA In Talks With Turner To Run NBA TV and NBA.com; No Plans For Standalone Online Package - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 28 Oct 2007 01:54 PM PST

NBA is in talks with multiple parties, including Turner, where the partner would operate the network’s 12 million-subscriber NBA TV, as well NBA.com, reports Multichannel. NBA commissioner David Stern denied…

Turner Goes Deeper Into Virtual Worlds; Will Work With Atlanta Start-up Kaneva - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 02 Oct 2007 09:01 PM PST

Turner Broadcasting has flirted with virtual worlds for a while. Now the Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) division will try for a relationship with a little more depth, signing a one-year…

The CNN-Reuters Breakdown: The Difference Between $3.5 Million and “Less Than $10 Million” - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 31 Aug 2007 10:06 AM PST

Yesterday we reported extensively on CNN (NYSE: TWX) and Reuters relationship breakdown, and noted on the variance in figures in two media reports on the annual value of the relationship.…

CNN Drops Reuters; Wants To Focus On Own News Gathering; $10M Or $3.5M Yearly Value? - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 30 Aug 2007 09:02 AM PST

Saying it wants to provide for “growth and success in the digital age,” CNN (NYSE: TWX) said that, as of Friday, it will no longer use material from Reuters’ (NSDQ:…

Broadband Content Bits: Discovery; ESPN360-FIFA; I-Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 02 Aug 2007 12:32 PM PST

Discovery Streaming: Starting Friday, Discovery is moving ahead with a mixed approach to broadband streaming will stream some ad-supported, full-length episodes of series and specials as sneak peeks and next…

Earnings: Time Warner Q2 Profits Up 10 Percent, Beating Estimates - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 01 Aug 2007 04:38 AM PST

Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) posted slightly higher net income of $1.1 billion, or $0.28 per diluted common share, versus last year’s $1 billion, or $0.24 per diluted common share, a 10…

CourtTV Unveils New Brand: Will Be Known As ‘truTV’; Relaunch Will Be Done By End Of ‘07 - 7 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 11 Jul 2007 01:42 PM PST

Tru is a haute cuisine restaurant in Chicago. Make it lower case and add TV and you have Time Warner’s rebranding of one of the most recognizable cable brands…