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Eliot Spitzer Never Developed Audience at CNN
CNN cancels Eliot Spitzer's prime time program. Former New York governor never developed a large following on air.
CNN Cancels Eliot Spitzer’s Talk Show
CNN has cancelled the political talk show “In The Arena” which was hosted by former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, according to a report in the New York Times.
Green Lantern 2 makes business sense for Warner Bros
A sequel of Green lantern on the anvil for Warner Bros
Time Warner Cable Shares Hit New 2-Year High
Shares of Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) touched a new 2-year high of $73.19 on Friday. The company said it has filed a request for declaratory judgment relating to Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA) cable networks.
Time Warner Cable Adds Back Channels To iPad App
Just after pulling a dozen stations from its iPad App, Time Warner Cable has decided to put some back.
Time Warner removes key channels from iPad app
Time Warner Cable has removed a dozen channels from its iPad app following an ongoing dispute with several media companies.
MARCH MADNESS: College Basketball TV Schedule for Friday, March 18
These are the list of games and their networks
Time Warner upgraded to buy at Benchmark Capital
Benchmark Capital upgraded Time Warner Inc. to buy from hold, saying that accelerating advertising recovery is likely to help sustain high-single digit growth in Networks revenues.
Stocks finish narrowly mixed as investors monitor Egypt crsisis
Stocks finished narrowly mixed in uneasy trading as the political crisis in Egypt seems to be worsening as fighting between forces supporting President Hosni Mubarak and those who oppose him intensify.
CBS shares tumbled after Sheen was rushed to hospital
Although no logical correlation could be found between the two events, CBS shares fell nearly 3 percent after Charlie Sheen, the star of its most popular show, Two and a Half Men, was rushed to the hospital this morning.
Knuckles, Irish documentary at Sundance to be remade into HBO series
An interesting tale of family disputes which are periodically settled by rough fights
SEC begins probe into Goldman Sach's investment in Facebook
US market regulator Security and Exchange Commission began examining disclosure rules for privately held companies and whether they need to be rewritten following the recent deals that allowed investors to buy shares in Internet companies like Facebook and Twitter.
Now, Facebook is valued at $50 bln as Goldman Sachs invests $500 mln
Social networking site Facebook is now valued at $50 billion taking it ahead of companies eBay, Yahoo and Time Warner as it raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor.
Time Warner Cable To Air Big 4 Shows Despite Sinclair Blackout
Time Warner Cable said it is working hard to reach a long-term agreement with Sinclair Broadcasting over carriage of its signals.
MGM averts bankruptcy, gets $500 million finance bail out
The new structure gives debt-holders a stake and JP Morgan arranges $500 million
Potential AOL-Yahoo merger couldn’t challenge Google’s dominance
While it may make some strategic sense for Yahoo and AOL to combine some of their operations, she sees little hope for the resulting merged entity to mount a challenge against the reigning monarch of the search-engine market, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG).
Netflix downgraded at Jefferies
Jefferies & Co. downgraded rating of online DVD rental company Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) to 'hold' from 'buy' given the 270 percent run-up in the stock since January 2010, with a price target of $195.
Bright quarter seen for big media, but investors wary
U.S. media companies are set to report revenue increases of 5 to 15 percent as they issue earnings reports over the next two weeks -- the best the industry has looked in at least two years.
At Sun Valley, brighter moods may not mean big deals
As Rupert Murdoch, Bob Iger and other media honchos assemble in Sun Valley this week for some fly-fishing or white water rafting, spirits should be brighter than a year ago: stock prices are up by about a third, after all.
Hulu in talks with CBS, others for paid TV shows: report
Free video website Hulu is in talks with CBS Corp, Viacom Inc and Time Warner Inc to add their television shows to its planned paid subscription service, Bloomberg reported, citing people with direct knowledge of the discussions.
Videogame business poised for rebound
LOS ANGELES - The funk that has stricken U.S. video games is about to end -- and the timing is perfect, considering the industry begins showing off its wares Tuesday at the massive E3 Expo in Los Angeles.
News Corp profit up on Avatar, but outlook disappoints
News Corp's quarterly profit beat expectations thanks to the 3-D blockbuster Avatar and strong cable networks, but the media conglomerate's shares fell 4 percent after its outlook disappointed some investors.
MGM creditors to discuss standalone plan
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's steering committee will meet with creditors to present a stand-alone plan for the famed studio next week, sources familiar with the matter said.
Lions Gate board rejects Icahn's latest offer
Lions Gate Entertainment Corp's board of directors rejected Carl Icahn's hostile bid to buy the movie studio, calling the offer coercive and too low.
Icahn offers to buy Lions Gate as MGM bid looms
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn launched an offer on Friday to buy Lions Gate Entertainment Corp , a move that would hamper the studio's expected bid for storied rival Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc .
MGM expected to draw six bids by March 19
Six companies are expected to make binding offers for storied Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by a newly set March 19 deadline.
Disney quarterly results beat expectations
A strong performance at its cable division and cost-cuts at its film studio propelled Walt Disney Co to better-than-expected earnings, but clouds remained over its theme parks.
YouTube's Eun latest Google exec to join AOL
AOL Inc said on Thursday another Google Inc executive will join its management ranks next month as the newly independent company seeks to become the leading content company for the Web.
Signs of media recovery abound as earnings roll in
Even the most creative media executives would have been hard pressed a year ago to conjure up a world of solid profits, soaring stock prices and cash stockpiles big enough to support higher dividend payouts.
AOL posts profit, but subscribers dwindle
AOL Inc beat Wall Street's profit and revenue expectations for the fourth quarter, but its top officers said that revenue from subscriptions and online search-related advertising would fall further in coming months.