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Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 03 Sep 2008 12:13 PM PST
-- CNN: The company’s managing editor for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Nick Wrenn, has been promoted to the new position of VP of CNN International Digital services. Reporting to…
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 12 Aug 2008 01:00 PM PST
While most media job news stories tend to be about newspaper layoffs these days, CNN has something positive to announce for a change. The Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) company’s Turner…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 06 Aug 2008 12:50 PM PST
Buried in the Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) 10-Q filed today—a note that the company took an $18 million charge for Turner Broadcasting’s GameTap, its much ballyhooed online video-game service that…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 06 Aug 2008 03:44 AM PST
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) reported Q2 revenue of $11.55 billion, ahead of estimates of $11.45 billion, and a 5 percent increase from $10.98 billion. Op income for the quarter was…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 21 Jul 2008 03:51 PM PST
-- ProQuest: Media exec Gordon Crovitz has joined ProQuest’s board of directors. After leaving his posts as publisher of WSJ and president of Dow Jones’ (NYSE: NWS) Consumer Media Group…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 10 Jul 2008 04:37 AM PST
Turner Broadcasting will rep ad sales for various pages across Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Sports, per a new agreement announced this morning. Under the deal, Turner will have exclusive representation over…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 07 Jul 2008 06:19 AM PST
It’s taken a few months, but Turner Broadcasting and the NBA have a new head of NBA Digital: Bryan Perez, most recently CEO of Live Nation’s Global Digital division. As…
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 02 Jun 2008 06:11 AM PST
Turner appears to be heeding the warning Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia’s (NYSE: MSO) Wenda Harris Millard gave to major web publishers this past spring: don’t sell all your ad inventory…
Posted By David Kaplan - Sat 17 May 2008 10:00 AM PST
AOL is the midst of a series of site rollouts and this week’s latest, ParentDish.com, is starting off with a partnership with Warner Bros. TV Group sibling MomLogic. The primary…
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…
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)…
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 the…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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