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April 5, 2009
Talk of ‘TV Everywhere’ fills cable convention
...the pain: Rupert Murdoch, News Corp chief, has a joke with...discussions at the annual National Cable & Telecommunications Association...spearheaded by Time Warner to offer a cable network’s programming line-up online...only to paying subscribers to cable video services. “We’re...that is a joint venture of News Corp and NBC Universal... By Kenneth Li in Washington DC
December 17, 2009
Time Warner buys Indian entertainment network
...comprised of America’s oldest television network and a thriving collection of cable TV networks to Comcast, the top US cable operator...according to the paidContent blog. Scripps Network in November said it purchased a 69 per cent stake... By Kenneth Li in New York
December 28, 2009
The $164bn question that stumped AOL
...analysts said, heralding a new era of synergies between prime content and the internet’s world-changing distribution network. On the contrary, AOL Time Warner became a byword for top-of-the-market hubris. When Les Moonves, chief executive...internet services in the dial-up world disappeared in the new world of broadband connections. Buying Time Warner, whose cable company controlled only a sliver of the US broadband market, did nothing to solve AOL’s migration challenge. The deal... By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson and Kenneth Li in New York
June 2, 2005
Observer: Patchy reception for CNN birthday
A quarter of a century after Ted Turner unleashed 24-hour rolling news on the world, CNN still struggles with those awkward satellite conversations with guests on the other side of the globe. Anderson Cooper, the cable network's rising star, was the latest to come unstuck yesterday as he interviewed the presidents of Sri Lanka and Indonesia...
June 13, 2008
Race for Weather Channel hots up
...private equity partners in prime position to win the cable network. Time Warner had been considered a leading contender...Weather Channel, which it planned to pair with its CNN cable news network. However, the media conglomerate pulled out of the... By Joshua Chaffin in New York
January 4, 2005
Observer: Tsunamis and cable news networks
Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel surged ahead of arch-rival...last year, as the right-leaning network's coverage of the presidential election...reporters. While CNN, the only US news network with a strong global presence, was...
May 31, 2005
CNN focuses on the next 25 years
In case they wanted a reminder about the new order in cable news, Cable News Network executives need look no further than outside the windows of their Atlanta headquarters. There, across the... By Joshua Chaffin
May 31, 2005
New chief who wants to outfox Fox
...the leader of the US's top-rated cable news channel, Mr Ailes is entitled to make...with 795,000 for CNN's flagship US network, according to Nielsen Media Research...Fox, Ms Grace has pushed Headline News to become the number three cable news network. Her emergence begs the question of... By Joshua Chaffin
December 10, 2009
Facebook encroaches on MySpace domain
...in partnership with the ABC television network, was streaming the award show live to...encroaching into the domain of another social network turned entertainment hub – MySpace...MySpace, which Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp acquired in 2005, essentially conceded...to be the world’s largest social network. With 100m users, MySpace could not... By David Gelles
January 18, 2009
Elections put CNN back in ratings game
...Mr Walton said. Last year marked the network’s biggest global expansion in its...creation of75 new positions. This year, a news-gathering hub and production centre will...Abu Dhabi. Online, CNN’s digital network attracted 12.8m unique users on election...be the number one provider of mobile news. “The transition from being a cable news channel to being a multiplatform... By Kenneth Li