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Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 05 May 2008 03:19 PM PST
Catching up on news from the Bank Holiday weekend and the end of last week… -- MySpace: The social net has unveiled a UK version of its Scene Junkie entertainment…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 01 May 2008 05:16 AM PST
Times Online has set up an advertising office in New York and will work with News Corp’s recently acquired Wall Street Journal website to help “monetise” its US readership, reports…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 30 Apr 2008 02:01 AM PST
BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) released third quarter results today, showing that the pay TV group had a nine-month adjusted operating profit of £521 million with revenues up 10 percent at £3.71…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 25 Apr 2008 01:10 AM PST
James Murdoch may no longer be BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) CEO but, as CEO of his daddy’s wider News Corp (NYSE: NWS). he’s still disgruntled with the BBC’s catch-up TV service.…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 24 Apr 2008 03:48 AM PST
BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) and Sony (NYSE: SNE) have unveiled the name and launch date for their forthcoming PSP TV collaboration. Adding to the Go! brand that already includes the Go!Cam…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 21 Apr 2008 07:50 AM PST
Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) has relaunched Wealth-Bulletin, the private banking news site it picked up earlier this year, and plans to launch a print spin-off of the site. The new…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 19 Apr 2008 08:45 PM PST
The controversial 17.9 percent stake that BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) holds in ITV (LSE: ITV) has been up for sale, and multiple suitors have expressed interest. Among them, European broadcaster RTL…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Apr 2008 04:55 AM PST
Suddenly, the economics of free don’t look so rosy. Thelondonpaper, the freesheet Rupert Murdoch’s News International started in 2006, made £8 million revenue in its first year - but lost…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Apr 2008 06:16 AM PST
-- Mail: Mail Online is beta testing a re-design for its Daily and Sunday print titles. The new site’s chunky homepage is busier than even the new-look Guardian.co.uk‘s front. Beta.dailymail.co.uk…
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 14 Apr 2008 08:46 PM PST
Earlier this month, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). announced it was upping its 22.7 percent stake in Munich-based subscription TV network Premiere. Reports estimated that News Corp. was looking to hold…
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 10 Apr 2008 02:47 PM PST
MySpace has signed a distribution deal with UK TV production house ShineReveille that’s intended to expand the reach of their original programming internationally and online, according to The Hollywood Reporter.…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 10 Apr 2008 08:06 AM PST
The Propertyfinder home search site is buying HotProperty.co.uk operator Sherlock Publications for £5.6 million, uniting the two under the growing real estate interest in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NYSE: NWS)…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 10 Apr 2008 03:22 AM PST
Threads from the TV content market happening on the Croisette in Cannes… -- Hulu aims global: Jason Kilar, CEO of the NBC/News Corp (NYSE: NWS) web TV JV Hulu.com, told…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Apr 2008 02:57 AM PST
Index Ventures partner Danny Rimer has added BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) to the growing number of board tables around which he sits. Rimer, who opened Index in London in 2002 and…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Apr 2008 02:24 AM PST
City University electronic publishing academic Neil Thurman presented a paper on online news video at the ninth International Symposium on Online Journalism in Texas at the weekend. Though previous papers…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 03 Apr 2008 04:12 AM PST
News Corp (NYSE: NWS) is bringing its .Fox Networks ("dot Fox") web ads network to the UK with the aim of making it the exclusive ad net of choice for…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 02 Apr 2008 06:55 AM PST
- WSJ US: News Corp (NYSE: NWS) will this month begin selling the main US edition of Wall Street Journal in the UK. It’s not the FT-killer some think it…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 27 Mar 2008 06:23 AM PST
The BBC and ITV (LSE: ITV) have sought the advice of lawyers to determine whether the deep-linking that online TV listings site TVguide.co.uk does to their online video streaming is…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 26 Mar 2008 08:35 AM PST
The News Of The World has been forced to remove from its website a story that made lurid allegations about Derby County manager Paul Jewell’s private life. The story was…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 18 Mar 2008 04:58 AM PST
BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) won the rights to show Champions League matches on internet and mobile until 2012, along with the majority of TV matches (release). The network coughed up a…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 11 Mar 2008 06:16 AM PST
We mentioned yesterday Five News had become MySpace TV’s latest syndication partner. Here it is. Turns out, former BBC doyenne Natasha Kaplinsky, just weeks after leaving Auntie for the fifth…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 25 Feb 2008 10:14 AM PST
James Murdoch is promoting Sky Italia COO Mark Williams to become News Corp CFO for Europe and Asia. Williams will relocate to London in March, in Murdoch’s first senior appointment…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 25 Feb 2008 10:13 AM PST
- Virgin appeals BSkyB: Now both BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) and Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) are appealing the Competition Commission’s ruling the satellite broadcaster should slim its 17.9 percent ITV (LSE:…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 21 Feb 2008 07:13 AM PST
As expected, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) will challenge the Competition Commission’s ruling it must drop most of its ITV (LSE: ITV) share in an appeal to the Competition Appeals Tribunal tomorrow.…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 20 Feb 2008 08:57 AM PST
Charlie Redmayne, MD of BSkyB’s (NYSE: BSY) teen girl portal MyKindaPlace, is leaving to head up HarperCollins’ digital publishing efforts. Redmayne, who has latterly been head of Sky’s commercial partnerships…
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