A few items from Time Warner‘s third-quarter conference call: 1. In making HBO Go available to Comcast for use in an offering aimed at broadband-only subscribers, Time Warner is only doing what it has done for 30 years — trying…
Entertainment conglomerate Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday that its third-quarter profit jumped 44% on improved advertising sales and increased subscription revenue at its cable networks and one-time items. Its adjusted earnings blew past most analysts’ estimates. The company said it…
DirecTV Chief Executive Mike White told analysts Tuesday he’s “very optimistic” that the No. 1 U.S. satellite provider can renew its exclusive deal with the NFL to carry the Sunday NFL Ticket package of out-of-market games. On the same third-quarter…
DirecTV, the No. 1 U.S. satellite broadcaster, said Tuesday that its third-quarter profit climbed 24% — breezing past most Wall Street forecasts — on a gain related to a settlement in Latin America, a 6% increase in revenue-per-user due to…
Comcast Corp. said Wednesday that its third-quarter profit dropped 18% from a prior year that included $862 million in gains from asset sales, but topped most analysts’ estimates as cable revenue rose 5.2% on continued growth in video, broadband and…
Analysts will be watching to see if Comcast Corp. can step up solid growth trends in broadband and video services even as the noise gets louder around cord-cutting and a la carte, while keeping the momentum at the NBCUniversal cable…
For a top-notch general story, there was this item by the always-reliable Brian Stelter of the New York Times.
The first thing I thought of when I heard earlier this week that News Corp. had threatened to make Fox a cable-only outlet if it doesn’t win its suit against Aereo is how much things have changed since Bob Wright…
Veteran media-fund manager Hal Vogel has watched, warily, as media and entertainment stocks have mounted a spectacular run-up in the past year, with an average gain of 42% among big conglomerates Time Warner Inc., CBS Corp., Walt Disney Co., Comcast…