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Amazon Adds NBCUniversal Video to Prime Offerings

Posted: May 16, 2013 at 11:25 am

In another move to boost subscriptions to its Prime Instant Video service, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today said that it has signed a licensing agreement with the NBCUniversal division of ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — Thursday: Markets Open Higher, S&P Posts Another All-time High

Posted: May 2, 2013 at 4:09 pm

U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning, buoyed by a smaller-than-expected total of new claims for unemployment benefits in the U.S. (more coverage here). The U.S. trade deficit also fell ...
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Media Digest (5/2/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 2, 2013 at 6:11 am

Lehman Bros. sues Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) over $1 billion in seized collateral. (Reuters) Glencore continues to push to buy Xstrata. (Reuters) Facebook Inc.'s (NASDAQ: FB) mobile business shoots up ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — Wednesday: Markets Cannot Shake-off Low Open and Sink to Close

Posted: May 1, 2013 at 4:08 pm

U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following a weaker-than-expected employment report from ADP and concern that Friday’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics will follow the ADP lead ...
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Fight over Internet TV Becomes Complex

Posted: April 23, 2013 at 6:46 am

The battle over whether broadcast television can be streamed over the Internet has become more complicated. Television companies have started to spread their risk. This is because the move from ...
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Media Digest (4/23/2013) Reuters, WSJ, Financial Times

Posted: April 23, 2013 at 6:42 am

The European Commission indicates that it will lower pressure on spending cuts among several nations as Spain and France miss budget targets. (Reuters) The flash HSBC Purchasing Managers' Index for ...
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If You Can’t Win in Court, Take Your Broadcast Network to Cable

Posted: April 8, 2013 at 2:41 pm

Broadcast TV networks have failed twice to get the courts to stop a start-up called Aereo Inc. from capturing the networks’ broadcast signal on an antenna leased to a subscriber ...
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Deutsche Bank Lists Stocks to Buy Now, Even If You Missed the Bull Market (CBS, DD, DIS, HON, IBM, LYB, MCD, SLB, WYNN, AA)

Posted: April 8, 2013 at 8:30 am

The first-quarter earning season begins today with the quarterly ritual of perennial lousy, or at least lackluster, earnings leading off the deluge of reports, from aluminum giant Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: ...
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Another Loss in Court for TV Networks

Posted: April 1, 2013 at 11:55 am

A federal appeals court today denied the appeal from a group of broadcasters including CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS), The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), which owns the ABC television network, ...
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Media Digest (3/27/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NY Times, FT

Posted: March 27, 2013 at 6:14 am

A Fed study says China growth will slow in 2030. (Reuters) Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) may cuts its cash position to $35 billion to redeem expensive debt. (Reuters) Battery problems ...
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Picking Winners in Streaming Media (INTC, AAPL, GOOG, NFLX, AMZN, P, MSFT, SNE, DIS, CBS, CMCSA, VZ, CSTR, TWX, VIAB, NWSA)

Posted: March 26, 2013 at 1:21 pm

This might be one of those times that’s it difficult to tell the players even with a scorecard. The battle for control of the living room is about to be ...
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More Pressure for Changes to Pay TV

Posted: March 18, 2013 at 2:28 pm

We’ve been following for some time now the jockeying for position that has been going on in the entertainment industry. The past weekend brought a new offer from Verizon Communications ...
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UBS Stock Picks for the Next Stage of the Bull Market (CBS, TSO, NBL, VLO, APC, PKI, UPS, JDSU)

Posted: March 13, 2013 at 8:50 am

Typically in the investing world, if everybody expects an event, the opposite happens. In March of 2009 after a brutal sell-off had knocked the S&P 500 down almost 60% from ...
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Can Old Media Beat New Media in Ad War?

Posted: February 28, 2013 at 6:39 am

The conventional wisdom is that old media online content gets trumped every time by new media properties, at least when it comes to ad revenue. This does not have to ...
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Pay TV Bundling Challenged

Posted: February 27, 2013 at 2:02 pm

In a lawsuit filed late yesterday in New York, Cablevision Systems Corp. (NYSE: CVC) is taking on Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB) in a move that challenges the media company’s practice ...
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