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Zynga stuck in real-life BadNewsVille: more lawuits, COO demoted
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Zynga’s bad day on July 25 when the company reported horrible earnings turned into a bad week when investors found out that insiders cashed out just three months prior and sued the company for insider trading. Now that bad week is in turn becoming a bad month as August starts with...
COO John Schappert Leaves Zynga
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Zynga just announced that chief operating officer John Schappert is leaving the social gaming giant and its board of directors. “We can confirm that John Schappert has left Zynga and its Board of Directors effective immediately,” said CEO Mark Pincus in a statement. “John has made significant contributions to the...
Fighting DirecTV, Viacom takes down its shows for everyone
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The ongoing carriage fee spat between Viacom and DirecTV just escalated to a whole new level: Viacom has taken a number of full episodes of programs like the Daily Show, and the Colbert Report off its websites. The step was taken to prevent DirecTV customers from accessing the content, but in...
Why cable should bank on broadband and thank Netflix
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With initiatives like TV Everywhere and broadband usage caps, is the cable industry biting the hands of the streaming video companies that are driving its most vibrant prospect for growth? Now that Time Warner Cable, AT&T and Verizon have kicked off the latest round of quarterly earnings reports by multi-channel...
DirecTV Spat Results In Takedown Of Full-Length Viacom Shows For Everyone Online
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The latest spat between a pay TV provider and a content company has gotten ugly, with both DirecTV and Viacom taking to the web and pointing fingers at each other and calling each other names. That’s to be expected, in this day and age, as cable and satellite subscribers become...
Will the next Apple TV be launched with Dish or DirecTV?
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By now, we’ve all heard plenty of rumors about Apple building an actual TV set — a rumor that was only fueled by the recent minor and somewhat underwhelming update to its existing Apple TV set-top-box. The question is: What kind of TV services would Apple offer on such a...
Analyst renews call for studios to crush theatrical window … despite hot box office
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Coming off a 2011 that saw North American box office revenue decline nearly 4 percent and movie ticket sales fall to their lowest levels in nearly 16 years, noted media-business analyst Richard Greenfield called for Hollywood’s major studios to quit pussy-footing around the theater chains and finally collapse the age-old theatrical release...
Verizon/Redbox JV has name & exec team, begins testing
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Five months after announcing their joint venture to compete with Netflix, Verizon and Redbox parent company Coinstar Inc. have finally released key details about it … on the same day Netflix will give its second-quarter earnings. As outlined by a just-launched website, the joint venture has been christened “Redbox Instant...
Dish facing doom in Voom litigation, analysts say
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Settle up and move on. That was the advice given to Dish Network by several high-profile media analysts Wednesday morning. The satellite company, they say, should settle its lawsuit over the failed Voom HD venture with Cablevision and AMC Networks, and it should end the related carriage dispute that has...
Is Cablevision about to launch a Netflix competitor, too?
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Cablevision Systems Corp. CEO James Dolan calls his blues band “The Straight Shot,” but noted media technology analyst Richard Greenfield and his colleagues at BTIG Research don’t believe he was straight Thursday about his company’s intentions to launch a subscription video-on-demand service. “We believe that Cablevision is looking to launch...
Netflix, Groupon, Facebook and Yahoo: Rising, Falling and Treading Water
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The past week was a good one for Netflix and the upcoming one could be even better. Shares of the company spiked nearly 20 percent over the July fourth week, driven up to $81.89 by CEO Reed Hastings’s announcement that Netflix subscribers streamed one billion hours of video in June....
Analyst: DirecTV customer service reps saying deal is "imminent"
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Is our weeklong national pay TV nightmare really close to being over? Influential media technology analyst Richard Greenfield tweeted Thursday afternoon that DirecTV ”appears to have caved” in its fee-negotiation standoff with Viacom, and that the satellite carrier’s customer service reps are telling subscribers a deal is “imminent.” That would,...
Survey says: Hollywood could make more money without windows
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Surveys conducted and sponsored by research firm BTIG suggest that movie viewers might actually spend more money on films, if they were available online or on cable video-on-demand services at the same time as they are available in theaters. The post from BTIG’s Richard Greenfield (free registration required to view)...
Netflix just became cable’s biggest TV network
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Netflix subscribers watched more than one billion hours of video in June, according to the company’s CEO Reed Hastings. That means that U.S. subscribers watched around 80 minutes of Netflix per day last month, which makes the service more popular than any traditional U.S. cable network, estimated BTIG analyst...
This Week in Media: A Need for Reinvention
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This was an interesting week in the media world – perhaps not as eventful as the previous ones, but certainly as thoughtful. From theoretical debates to court battles, here’s our recap of the latest hot topics. The death of TV commercials? Dish Network’s Auto Hop may be popular among the...
Over 1 Billion (Hours) Served: Netflix, Big Cable, And The Innovator’s Dilemma
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Netflix yesterday announced that its viewers watched over 1 billion hours of video over the course of June, which comes down to about an hour of video per subscriber per day. At the time I wrote about it, I pointed out that chances are, each hour of Netflix viewing means...
Rentrak Edges Further Onto Nielsen's TV Turf
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After enjoying a ratings monopoly during television’s first six decades, Nielsen increasingly finds itself challenged by upstart competitors as the TV research game evolves to more accurately measure audiences spread across digital viewing devices. The latest incursion came Friday, when research firm Rentrak agreed under a newly signed longterm...
Zynga Finally Sneaks Above Its IPO Price (ZNGA)
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Zynga closed at $10.05 today — just a hair above its IPO price of $10 — for the first time since its trading debut after shooting up more than 6 percent in trading today. A flurry of buy ratings (including one today from BTIG) and the prospect of Zynga...
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