Disney boosts its dividend
The Walt Disney Company announced after the market closed on Wednesday (12/1) that it was increasing the cash dividend on its stock. The new...
Washington agrees to disagree over internet approach
The rules of the road for the information superhighway known as the internet proposed by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is getting reaction from legislators,...
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski puts forth net neutrality plan
As expected, the FCC’s December Open Meeting will consider internet rules and regulations designed to promote the concept of network neutrality, and FCC Chairman...
Comcast shows us The Garden of Eden
Lately we have seen announcements regarding new OTT ("over the top") box launches, like Roku and Boxee. Netflix has done
Kay Bailey Hutchison likely facing intramural challenge in 2012
The Ranking Member of the key Senate Commerce Committee, Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), is actually in the Senate on borrowed time, if she were...
Jerry Peterson dead at 76
Longtime Carolina broadcaster Gerald “Jerry” Lee Peterson died Friday, November 26th, shortly after his last broadcast on WRHI-AM Rock Hill, SC. He was 76.
Peterson...
AT&T U-verse adds 1,200 hours of HBO, Cinemax programming online
In another move to make TV content available in more places, AT&T announced that AT&T U-verse TV customers now have full access to HBOGO.com...
Big-name transient Democrats said to be up for MPAA
For decades, the Motion Picture Association of America did not have to worry about who would lead its operations in Washington – those duties...
Prisa goes public in US via investment deal
Grupo Prisa (Promotora de Informaciones SA), Spain's largest media conglomerate, has gotten a big cash infusion to fund its expansion in the US and...
Survey says holiday spending will be on the down side of flat
Predictions on how the annual holiday shopping spree will go this year are, as usual, all over the map. If we have seen a...
Univision Communications bond tender oversubscribed
Univision Communications was quite successful with its tender offer to buy back up to $460 million of its senior notes due 2015. It was...
Strange tender for General Electric stock
A Canadian investment fund, TRC Capital, has made a tender offer for General Electric’s stock. But the so-called “mini-tender” is only for a small...
News Corp. to buy Wireless Generation
News Corp. has signed a deal to acquire 90% of Wireless Generation, a private NYC-based education technology company for $360 million in cash. Wireless...
Think tanker suggests new approach to combat obesity
Hank Cardello, a Hudson Institute Visiting Fellow, suggests that decades of attempts to improve the quality of food sold to Americans in order to...
WideOrbit named to San Francisco Business Times Fast 100
WideOrbit, provider of business management software for media companies, has been named one of the Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the Bay...