Entries tagged "media mergers"

Senate panel takes up Genachowski nomination

Entrepreneur and VC Julius Genachowski moved one step closer to taking his post as Obama's chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

Activision CEO offers hint of Midway deal?

Activision CEO Robert Kotick is the second company executive to comment on dealmaking in the last week, and inadvertently may have hinted at its target.

Activision Blizzard to spend its spare change

With $3 billion in cash, the publisher of "Guitar Hero" games is reportedly looking to buy rivals on the cheap. But who might be on the short list?

Media execs bullish about M&A

Executives in marketing communications are no more optimistic about the economy than their peers in other sectors. But they're decidedly bullish, still, about doing deals.

Reports illustrate media's decline

Reports from PricewaterhouseCoopers and Veronis Suhler Stevenson illustrate the declines in the media industry.

Report: Media M&A may rise in 2009

Boutique media bank Jordan, Edmiston Group has come up with a list of 10 reasons that there will be more media M&A this year than you might expect.

Could the stars be aligning for a Google-N.Y. Times merger?

As the New York Times Co. is negotiating with lenders over its debt, speculation has been floating around the blogosphere, pushing the premise that Google Inc. should acquire the beleaguered Gray Lady. The thesis (or, rumor, as some would put it) has been around since the beginning of the year, with SpliceToday on Thursday reintroducing the idea of the unorthodox union of the stalwart of old media with the scion of new media. ...

What Waxman's win means for dealmaking

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., will be the House of Representatives' chief overseer of media and telecom mergers, the energy industry and foreign acquisitions that have national security implications. Waxman landed that charge Thursday morning after beating Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., in a battle for the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Waxman had argued that Dingell was too close to automakers and had not done enough to impose tighter emission standards on cars or to pursue other environmental initiatives....

DreamWorks divorce from Paramount final

Another Hollywood marriage ends in divorce. The movie studio started by Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks SKG, has finalized Monday its breakup with Paramount Pictures.  ...

Malone: Discovery-Scripps deal 'unlikely'

Media and technology billionaire John Malone does not expect the newly restructured Discovery Communications Inc. to buy Scripps Networks Interactive Inc., a Pali Capital Inc. analyst blogged Friday....

CBS' Moonves sees dark future in newspaper sector

The newspaper industry is in critical condition, and CBS CEO Les Moonves makes no bones about it. The media veteran, who helped engineer CBS' $1.8 billion purchase of online media company Cnet Networks Inc. in May, seemed to be gloating, telling an audience at MIXX 2.8, the Interactive Advertising Bureau's annual advertising conference Tuesday, about his company's new direction, which seems to spell only more troubles for the newspaper industry. ...

Philly or D.C.? It could mean the world to media mergers

While the distance between Philadelphia and Washington is less than 140 miles down Interstate 95, the federal appeals courts in the two cities are worlds apart when it comes to proposed rules on media mergers. And with the legal battle over the Federal Communications Commission's controversial limits on mergers one step closer to fruition, media companies and consumer groups are eagerly watching where the challenge will land next....

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