Cablevision: Another Low Ball Bid From The Dolans
The founding family of Cablevision (CVC), the Dolan clan, are making another run at taking the company private. This time they are offering $36 a share, a 10% premium. The stock price went above…
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Newest first · Page 410Media Digest 5/2/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, a News Corp (NWS) purchase of Dow Jones (DJ) would improve the company’s presence in Asia, but would not give it needed access into China. Reuters writes that the CEO of…
Cramer’s Speculative Telecom Plays (CIEN, TLAB)
Cramer also came out on CNBC’s MAD MONEY with some speculative stocks in telecom, even though his main focus in telecom is being defensive right now. He said that the telecom expense expansions are…
Cramer’s Second Defensive Telecom: Alltel, As A Takeover Candidate (AT)
Cramer made another defensive pick on telecom stocks after seeing weak retailers, weak autos, and even weaker housing. His first pick was Verizon (VZ-NYSE) over AT&T (T-NYSE), but his second defensive stock in telecom…
Cramer’s First Defensive Telecom Stock: Verizon
On CNBC’s MAD MONEY tonight, Jim Cramer discussed retail signaling that you need to build a defensive portfolio. Telecom is actually defensive right now after seeing Verizon’s (VZ) and AT&T’s (T) quarters. Cramer is…
Cramer Talks the News Corp. & Dow Jones Merger (NWS, DJ)
On Today’s STOP TRADING Jim Cramer said he believes that the News Corp. (NWS) bid for Dow Jones (DJ) will succeed, but it may not stop there. In 1996, Rupert Murdoch was considering paying…
Media Mania After Dow Jones & News Corp. Merger Talk
Stock Tickers: DJ, NWS, RTRSY, TOC, NYT, WPO, SSP, MNI, BLC, LEE, GHS, XFML It looks like almost all media stocks are running on David Faber’s report that Dow Jones (DJ-NYSE) is now a…
News Corp. & Dow Jones: We Will Control All You See and Hear (NWS, DJ)
CNBC’s David Faber is reporting that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. (NWS-NYSE) has made a $60.00 per share offer to acquire Dow Jones (DJ-NYSE) common stock. Dow Jones shares have just screamed up by more…
Sirius Satellite Radio Earnings Q1 2007
(SIRI) Sirius Satellite Radio $204M revenues and net loss was -$0.10; Estimates were $212 million revenues and -$0.10 EPS. Its subscribers rose 556,490 to about 6.6 million; Churn rate was 2.3% and subscriber acquisition…
Trouble In Video City: Too Many Players
Venture capital firms put $682 million into video start-ups in 2006. That was almost double the year before. The $1.65 billion that Google (GOOG) paid for YouTube helped start the fire.According to the FT:…
Media Digest 5/1/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) has signed a deal with Comcast (CMCSA) to sell advertsing for its portal, comcast.net. Reuters writes that Oracle (ORCL) has asked a court to have SAP (SAP) preserve documents…
Cramer’s STOP YAWNING (APR 30, 2007)
On today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer said that he thinks Dolby (DLB-NYSE) will have a good quarter "despite the DC Madam wanting to sell the stock." 2 Names Cramer wants to…
Sirius Satellite Radio Earnings Preview Q1 2007 (SIRI, XMSR)
Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI-NASDAQ) is expected to post results of -$0.11 EPS and revenues of $211.7 million. Losses and negative cash flows are already assumed, so the focus is almost certainly going to be…
Cramer Ranks Telecom Equipment Stocks
On today’s Wall Street Confidential video on TheStreet.com, Cramer ranked telecom equiment makers in order (as #1 being the best) after Verizon’s results: #1) Ciena (CIEN) is in a sweet spot and he thought…
The New York Times, Washington Post And Tribune: Newspaper Cuts
Judging by the new circulation numbers for some of the big dailies, there parent companies are in for some more bad news. The New York Times, owned by NYT had a circulation drop of…