Tribune Chairman and CEO Sam Zell said Thursday that revenue trends this year are “significantly worse” than expected and are forcing the debt-laden conglomerate to consider divestitures not originally envisioned. In contrast to print advertising declines expected to run in…
Initial Ratings Show Audience Levels Still Below Pre-Strike Levels
NBC Universal became the latest big media company to create a digital studio with the announcement today that it has formed a unit to develop and produce digital content for NBCU’s broadcast and cable networks. The group will create original…
The creators of breakout Web video series “LonelyGirl15” and “KateModern” landed $5 million in venture funding to create a social entertainment company dubbed EQAL. Spark Capital led the financing for the new company, which will produce interactive shows, EQAL said…
The Radio-Television News Directors Association named a new chairman and announced the results of board elections at its annual conference at the NAB Show. Taking on the chairmanship is Edward Esposito, vice president of information media at Akron, Ohio’s Rubber…
Media agency Starcom USA has signed up for TNS Media Research’s new DirecTView service, which provides audience measurements based on set-top data from DirecTV subscribers. Starcom, in 2006, was first to get TNS data on viewing from 320,000 Charter Communications…
A few billion dollars is a lot to leave on the table. That’s what studios and retailers may be doing by not boosting prices of day-and-date Blu-ray DVDs and video-on-demand titles, according to a study released this week. The sellers…
The player: Dan York, executive VP of content and programming for AT&T The play: Mr. York led AT&T’s U-verse fiber-optic television service from its late 2004 inception to its June 2006 launch, during which time he helped negotiate about 150…
Customers will be able to enjoy The Next Big Thing in high-definition television sets just in time for the Summer Olympics—the 2012 London Summer Olympics, that is. Organic Light Emitting Diode televisions promise a thinner, clearer, greener viewing experience than…
HD programming picks for April 17-23: Fantastic Festivals of the World: Argentina, “Lenny,” “Cars”/“Who Killed the Electric Car?” Fantastic Festivals of the World: Argentina (HD Theater). Thursday, April 17, 8 p.m. Cowboy up, Argentina style, with La Fiesta de la…