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BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003
Grover & Green |
Hollywood Heist Will tinseltown let techies steal the show? The ripping and burning of movies to DVDs is growing into a global underground industry that last year cost film studios an estimated $3 billion in lost DVD sales. It's prodding the guys in Guccis into action.   |
BusinessWeek
December 5, 2005
Ronald Grover |
Static In Rupert's Satellite Dreams New technology lets cable offer goodies DirecTV can't - and customers are noticing. |
The Motley Fool
March 28, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Time Warner's Rerun-O-Rama A rumored "hits" channel from Time Warner seems like yesterday's brainchild. |
BusinessWeek
January 19, 2004
Grover & Lowry |
Rupert's World With DirecTV, Murdoch finally has a global satellite empire. Get ready for a fierce new media war. |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
Peter Chernin Chernin oversees film and TV production of various blockbuster hits at News Corp., and he was a key negotiator in Murdoch's deal to buy a controlling stake in the DirecTV satellite service. |
The Motley Fool
May 27, 2004
Nathan Slaughter |
Comcast Casts Wider Net The No. 1 cable operator is set to expand its VoIP and DVR services. |
BusinessWeek
June 7, 2004
Grover, Thornton & Lowry |
Mining for Gold in Tinseltown Flush with cash, private-equity funds are swarming over Tinseltown. In the process, the firms, which raise money from well-heeled investors looking to make large gains, could change the economics of Hollywood. |
BusinessWeek
February 23, 2004
Lowry et al. |
Mega Media Mergers: How Dangerous? If Comcast wins Disney, a few behemoths will dominate news, entertainment, and distribution |
The Motley Fool
May 6, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
News Corp.'s Foxy Quarter Profiting off American idolatry. |
BusinessWeek
January 31, 2005
Cliff Edwards |
Interactive TV: What's In The Cards? It's electronics companies vs. the cable giants in a battle over digital services |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005
Tom Lowry |
The Next Generation The next generation of media executives is waiting in the wings to inherit an industry in upheaval. They grew up embracing technology but know all too well that pirates are around every corner. |
BusinessWeek
March 14, 2005
Cliff Edwards |
TiVo: Going, Going...Pause The market thinks it's on the block, but the company has other plans |
BusinessWeek
July 12, 2004
Grover & Lowry |
Imagine Sony On Steroids Howard Stringer, Sony's vice-chairman, is shopping for movies and music. But will content sell gizmos? |
The Motley Fool
February 5, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Foxy News From News Corp. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp's quarterly results look pretty good; more importantly, the company is ready for the future, and starting from a well-balanced position today. |
The Motley Fool
May 14, 2007
David Lee Smith |
DirecTV Churns Out One Solid Quarter With subscriber defections slowing, DirecTV was able to increase its quarterly income by more than 40%. From the perspective of savvy investors, it looks like there is money to made from DirecTV. |
BusinessWeek
May 12, 2011
Felix Gillette |
TiVo's Slo-Mo Trip Toward Profitability TiVo, once shunned by cable operators, is now doing deals with them. Rogers says that will reverse TiVo's decline in subscribers and its losses. |
BusinessWeek
July 11, 2005
Ronald Grover |
What's Driving The Box Office Batty Hollywood is pushing movies to DVD and video faster -- and theaters are feeling squeezed. And with the price of cinema tickets skyrocketing, this gives movie fans new clout. Clearly, some big script changes are in store. |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Disney's Download Deal CinemaNow and Disney team up to digitally distribute more movies. |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
Ronald Grover |
Can Madison Ave. Make Zap-Proof Ads? It's blurring the lines between promotion and programming as digital video recorders gain ground. |
The Motley Fool
May 3, 2005
Ben McClure |
Gravity Grounds DirecTV The satellite entertainment giant dishes up subscriber growth -- but at what price? Investors expecting subscriber growth to translate into financial turnaround anytime soon may want to think again. |
The Motley Fool
February 23, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
DirecTV's Video Vault Satellite TV provider DirecTV has announced that it will provide a video downloading service along with its premium DVR service. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
August 6, 2009
Anders Bylund |
DirecTV Only Wants the Big Spenders Dish and DirecTV are locked in mortal combat. Will lower prices beat higher quality -- or vice versa? |
The Motley Fool
April 3, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Want Movie Downloads? Pay Up! Digital movie downloads? Good. Paying $30 a pop? Not so good. Given the fees and the limitations involved, it seems that this development mostly pays lip service to the nascent digital downloading industry. |
The Motley Fool
March 5, 2007
David Lee Smith |
EchoStar's Signal Is Strong Investors, if you think cable has trumped satellite television, take note of EchoStar's brightening picture. |
The Motley Fool
December 9, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Cablevision Plays a New Recorder Tune The future of entertainment has never looked so close. |
BusinessWeek
January 19, 2004
Ronald Grover |
Q&A with DirecTV's Chase Carey The satellite operator's CEO aims to gain "a million new subscribers a year" with enhanced, interactive offerings cable rivals can't match. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Just One Dish in a Crowded Buffet EchoStar isn't screaming "buy me!" at this point, but if the company can find a way to reverse the dropping subscriber growth, there could be good times still to come for investors. |
Salon.com
May 21, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Rupert in the sky with diamonds If he seizes America's satellite TV market, uber-mogul Rupert Murdoch will rule the airwaves on earth and in heaven. But John McCain may shoot him down... |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2007
David Lee Smith |
A Business News Bonanza? A new business channel may be just around the corner. |
Home Theater
September 25, 2007 |
Suit Demands Cable Unbundling A lawsuit filed in a Los Angeles federal court demands that the cable and satellite industries offer channels individually, not in tiers. |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2007
Steven Mallas |
Quick Take: Fight the Pirates! Media companies must fight piracy, for shareholders' benefit. The effects of piracy are emphatically detrimental to the long-term value of a music portfolio. Just look at the effect file-sharing has had on brick-and-mortar record stores. |
BusinessWeek
March 11, 2010
Ronald Grover et al. |
Revenge of the Cable Guys If you think online TV will be free forever, think again. The cable companies have a plan to keep control - and stick you with the bill. |
BusinessWeek
June 17, 2010
Edwards & Grover |
Sony's Move into Web TV Sony, which will sell a Google TV later this year, is expanding its online movie content to be a leader in state-of-the-art TV program delivery. |
Fast Company
December 2005
Alan Deutschman |
Building a Better Movie Business It's the iconic American industry. But audiences are vanishing, piracy is soaring, and new technology is treacherous. Can Tinseltown innovate its way out of trouble? |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2010
David Lee Smith |
Will Studios Nix Cable's Quick Trips for Flicks? Once again, operators want to shrink the time between movies' theatrical and home distribution. |
BusinessWeek
May 24, 2004
Grover & Lowry |
Satellite's Hot Pursuit Of Cable In the all-out war for subscribers, the satellite industry is clearly winning out over the cable industry. |
BusinessWeek
June 5, 2006
Ronald Grover |
Murdoch's Tech Offensive In the media industry's version of the arms race, no one is better equipped than Rupert Murdoch. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2010
Eric Jhonsa |
Is Cable's Business Model Kaput? After the Fox-Time Warner dispute, consumers and service providers alike have reasons to support change. |
Wired
October 2003
Frank Rose |
The Fast-Forward, On-Demand, Network-Smashing Future of Television What happens when digital video recorders give viewers control of the TV schedule, the content, and the ads? The whole world is watching. |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2005
Rich Duprey |
Fox Throws, and Takes, a Block News Corp.'s acquisition prevents takeover, while Fox News gets filtered. |
The Motley Fool
April 14, 2008
David Lee Smith |
The Case of Verizon vs. Time Warner Cable Verizon sues Time Warner Cable, claiming an ad misrepresents Verizon's fiber-optic services. |
InternetNews
September 27, 2004
Colin C. Haley |
Comcast, TW Mull Joint Adelphia Bid The companies may team to buy the bankrupt cable provider to maximize the chances of success. |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
Second Acts A $2.6 billion purchase of Warner Music Group by Bronfman and a group of investors may give him a shot at redemption. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2011
Anders Bylund |
Has Hollywood Seen the Digital Light? A consortium of big-name movie studios has come up with a bold, new digital distribution plan for new movies. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 17, 2011
Kim Girard |
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood Despite a thriving movie industry in India, Hollywood studios have experienced difficulty making much money there. Researchers discovered a complicated mix of piracy and plagiarism. |
InternetNews
February 7, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Amazon, TiVo Cut Digital Deal A new feature of Amazon Unbox, will allow TiVo subscribers to rent and purchase movies and television shows from studios and networks. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2010
Anders Bylund |
How the Cable Guys Are Killing Themselves Video on demand may boost cable TV results for a while, but will end up killing the entire industry. |
BusinessWeek
September 25, 2006
Tom Lowry |
Time For Time Warner To Unhook Cable There are obstacles, but Time Warner CEO Richard D. Parsons has a spin-off high on his to-do list. |
BusinessWeek
April 9, 2007
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Now Playing: Digital Disarray Hollywood's piracy fears are stifling online video expansion. |
The Motley Fool
May 17, 2006
Stephen Ellis |
Make Space for News Corp. The next generation of Internet pay-per-click advertising will be supported by online content, and News Corp. has both the content and the online properties to build an online advertising powerhouse. News Corp. may be a stodgy company, but it's one that investors need to watch. |
