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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 - 8 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 around.…

Industry Moves Roundup: Revision3; Ziff Davis Media; BBCA; Comcast; Dailymotion; CNN; - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 10 Jul 2007 09:17 PM PST

Revision3: PC Magazine’s Jim Louderback is jumping ship and sides, moving to Revision3 as CEO, according to NewTeeVee. Louderback was editor in chief for PC mag and editorial director for…

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IAB Intends To Develop Single Standard For Audience Measurement For Web Video - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 09 Jul 2007 12:37 PM PST

Now that the Interactive Advertising Bureau has settled its dispute over general audience measurement ratings with comScore and Nielsen/NetRatings, the organization hopes to develop an industry standard for counting the…

‘New’ CNN.com Debuts With Free Video Across The Board - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 02 Jul 2007 10:51 AM PST

The ‘new’ CNN.com is up and running after more than a year of planning. SVP/GM David Payne borrows a line from the Staples ad campaign: “If there were an ‘easy…

NBA Extensions With Disney and Turner Include ‘Robust’ Digital Rights - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 27 Jun 2007 11:59 AM PST

The new NBA media deals are done—extending contracts with The Walt Disney Company’s ESPN and ABC and Turner Broadcasting’s TNT through the 2015-16 season. The broadcast rights are essentially the…

CNN Exec: Pipeline Had Too Few Subs; Revamped CNN.com With Free Pipeline Will Be “Game Changer” - 6 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 26 Jun 2007 02:20 PM PST

David Payne, CNN.com SVP and GM, was a true Pipeline believer. His dismay at the premium service’s pending June 30 demise comes through clearly in a message to Pipeline subs…

TW’s Parsons: Successful Digital Tranisition Would Make Time Inc. ‘Growth Business For A Long Time’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 07 Jun 2007 02:17 PM PST

Earlier today we published Rafat’s interview with Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore. Time Warner chairman and CEO Dick Parsons talked about the magazine unit and other parts of the mega-media…

Turner Turns Up Streaming Volume; Summer Originals Go Online - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 28 May 2007 09:22 PM PST

Turner nets TNT and TBS are taking the next big broadband step, a first for major cable nets—posting all episodes of original summer series online albeit for limited stints. All…

New Zealand Herald Cancels Premium Online Subscription After Two Years - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 28 May 2007 08:05 PM PST

A little more fuel for the anti-premium fire ... APN’s New Zealand Herald is dropping the premium subscription service started by nzherald.co.nz in late 2005. The site relaunched last December…

New Video Strategy For CNN Means End To Pipeline - 3 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 22 May 2007 10:24 PM PST

CNN’s deal to acquire a minority stake in Internet Broadcasting Systems came close to completely obscuring a major shift in the network’s video strategy. (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution went into detail.)…

CNN Taking Minority Stake in Internet Broadcasting Systems; To Use Local news on CNN.com - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 21 May 2007 09:39 PM PST

Updated: The companies have officially announced it..details in release. An interesting development for CNN.com, and CNN in general: it has taken a minority stake in Internet Broadcasting Systems, the TV…

Earnings: Time Warner 1Q Profit Drops 20 Percent; AOL Ad Revenue Grows 40 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 02 May 2007 04:52 AM PST

Despite a continued momentum from AOL ad sales, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) reported 1Q earnings fell 20 percent to $1.2 billion, or 31 cents per share, from $1.5 billion, or…

Turner’s GameTap Adds Games Sales and Ad-Supported Options To Revenue Mix - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 01 May 2007 11:08 AM PST

Subscription sales aren’t enough for Turner Broadcasting’s gaming service ... GameTap is going beyond the monthly subscription model to include individual game sales as well as a monthly rotation of…

Joost Expands Beta; Adds Programming From Turner, NHL, Sony - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 01 May 2007 10:28 AM PST

Anderson Cooper, Adult Swim, the NHL—at this rate, Joost is starting to look like basic cable. The company expanded its beta again today and said advertising from the 32 partners…

Industry Moves: Wright Heads Turner’s Content Creation Group; CBS Interactive Adds Research Power - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 24 Apr 2007 08:23 AM PST

Turner: Michael Wright, head of original programming for TNT and TBS for the past several years, has been promoted to SVP of the reorganized and renamed Content Creation Group. Wright…

Industry Moves: WBTVG; SI Digital; Here - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 18 Apr 2007 09:04 PM PST

Warner Bros. TV Group: Rich Sutton has been appointed SVP-digital media sales and will run a new unit devoted to just that; the unit will sell digital ads for WBTVG…

Industry Moves: New NeoEdge CEO; New CNN International Head; New AOL Social Media Exec - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 10 Apr 2007 07:41 PM PST

-- NeoEdge Networks: AOL alum Alex Terry joins the company that runs casual gaming site MostFun.com as CEO, succeeding Vic Mahadevan. Terry most recently was VP and GM of AOL’s…

Broadband Content Bits: Joost-WMG; Fox-Hearst; Endemol; Cooper’s Podcast; LX.TV-Jaguar - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 10 Apr 2007 01:41 PM PST

-- Joost-WMG: Joost has another significant content deal, this time with Warner Music Group. The video service, still in beta, will produce multiple WMG channels, programmed either by genre, label…

Turner Launches Broadband Subscription Site With USL - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 09 Apr 2007 11:13 AM PST

Turner Sports’ Play ON adds to its subscription sites with the launch today of USL Live ; the first game streams Friday. That’s USL as in United Soccer League; it…

Sports Notes: Masters Stats; NBCSports.com-Bunchball; Akimbo-Hockey - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 09 Apr 2007 10:45 AM PST

Masters’ Stats: So last month, a CBS spokesman carefully explained to me why the network wouldn’t release detailed metrics for March Madness on Demand—because the network doesn’t provide the numbers…

Court TV Being Rebranded; Some Court Coverage Goes Broadband - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 13 Mar 2007 07:44 PM PST

A few months after gaining full control of Court TV, Turner Broadcasting is remaking the network in its image with a new look, logo, name—the works based on extensive research.…

Liberty Media Acquires Atlanta Braves From Time Warner: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 12 Feb 2007 05:30 PM PST

The WSJ is reporting that a deal in the works for more than a year has finally concluded with an agreement for the former to acquire the Atlanta Braves. It’s…

Turner Finds Success With Online Ventures Large And Small - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 04 Jan 2007 09:59 AM PST

Turner Broadcasting gets its turn in the WSJ spotlight, more specifically the hard-working New Products group headed by David Rudolph. (Rudolph thought up Turner’s clever grits-niche network, Turner South.) Successful…

Comcast Opens Gaming Site Previously For Its HSD Subs Only - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 05 Dec 2006 07:33 AM PST

Comcast continues its programming shift online, raising the possibility of becoming a major national online player beyond its own high-speed subs. Gameinvasion.net, previously for Comcast HSD subs only. is now…