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Media Decoder Blog: Cable TV and Movie Divisions Help Lift Time Warner Revenue

by By AMY CHOZICK on Feb 8, 2012 • No Comments

The company's strategy of shedding under-performing assets and focusing on content was paying off, according to its chief executive, Jeffrey L. Bewkes.

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Windows Work? ‘Harry Potter’ DVD Sales help Drive Time Warner’s Q4 Profits

by Daniel Frankel on Feb 8, 2012 • No Comments

Delaying DVD and Blu-ray rental releases to outlets including Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Redbox made the magic of Harry Potter even more potent. That was some of the takeaway from Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Inc.‘s fourth-quarter financial report to investors Wednesday. Driven partly by strong disc sales of its eighth and...

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Time Warner Beats Q4 Estimates

by Peter Kafka on Feb 8, 2012 • No Comments

Media giant Time Warner turned in a Q4 report card that beat Wall Street's expectations, generating adjusted earnings of $0.94 per share on revenue of $8.2 billion. Analysts had expected $0.87 per share and $8.1 billion. Revenue was up 5 percent on the year.

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Verizon Teams With Redbox for a Netflix-Style Video Service

by Peter Kafka on Feb 6, 2012 • No Comments

Here's the Netflix-style video service that Verizon wouldn't talk about a couple months ago -- a joint venture with Redbox, which has an uneasy relationship with a lot of big media companies.

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NBC Puts the Super Bowl on the Web Because It Thinks You’ll Watch It on TV

by Peter Kafka on Jan 31, 2012 • No Comments

NBC is letting you watch the Super Bowl on the Web, for free, on Sunday. Here's why.

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NASCAR Takes Back The Wheel Of Its Digital Platforms From Turner

by Daniel Frankel on Jan 30, 2012 • No Comments

NASCAR is taking back the management of its online and mobile operations from broadcast partner Turner Sports following a steep slide in TV ratings. The league wants to use its digital platforms to help rekindle interest in the sport, which has suffered from flagging attendance.

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Netflix Doesn’t Want to Compete With Cable, Hulu, iTunes or GameFly. But HBO …

by Peter Kafka on Jan 26, 2012 • No Comments

Reed Hastings make his case, again: We're just another cable TV network, and people seem to like that just fine.

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Netflix Doesn’t Want to Compete With Cable, Hulu, iTunes or GameFly. But HBO …

by Peter Kafka on Jan 26, 2012 • No Comments

Reed Hastings make his case, again: We're just another cable TV network, and people seem to like that just fine.

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Analyst To Studios: It’s Time To Force Early VOD On Theater Chains

by Daniel Frankel on Jan 24, 2012 • No Comments

With both the theatrical and home video channels in revenue decline, and amid panic that digital piracy will soon crest into a tidal wave, BTIG Research analyst Richard Greenfield says Hollywood must once and for all scrap its long-sacred policy of releasing movies in theaters several months before offering them for video on demand. It’s...

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Twitter While You Watch TV? Bluefin Labs Is Watching.

by Peter Kafka on Jan 24, 2012 • No Comments

And the marketing start-up has just raised another $12 million. Think about that the next time you fire off a comment during an NFL game.

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"Abduction" Is Facebook’s First "Day-and-Date" Movie Rental

by Peter Kafka on Jan 17, 2012 • No Comments

Lionsgate is letting Facebook users stream rentals of "Abduction" via the site today, at the same time the Taylor Lautner movie is coming out on discs and conventional digital outlets. Last year Warner Bros. became the first studio to offer rentals via Facebook, but until now the movies have all been older catalog releases. A...

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Time Inc. Skips The CES Bins, Sort Of; Offers Free Downloads Of All Titles

by Staci D. Kramer on Jan 14, 2012 • No Comments

Not too long ago, grazing the magazine bins was a perk of going to a trade show. But consolidation and closures mean fewer publications—and digital platforms offer access to the info without lugging around the ones that are left. Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.‘s solution at CES this year?

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Media Decoder Blog: Cable TV and Movie Divisions Help Lift Time Warner Revenue

Windows Work? ‘Harry Potter’ DVD Sales help Drive Time Warner’s Q4 Profits

Time Warner Beats Q4 Estimates

Verizon Teams With Redbox for a Netflix-Style Video Service

NBC Puts the Super Bowl on the Web Because It Thinks You’ll Watch It on TV

NASCAR Takes Back The Wheel Of Its Digital Platforms From Turner

Netflix Doesn’t Want to Compete With Cable, Hulu, iTunes or GameFly. But HBO …

Netflix Doesn’t Want to Compete With Cable, Hulu, iTunes or GameFly. But HBO …

Time Inc. Skips The CES Bins, Sort Of; Offers Free Downloads Of All Titles

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