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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Play's the Thing
Baron, the first non-European to win the prestigious award. "I think it's a well-made story, and it's funny," said Baron, a former executive with American Express and Coca-Cola who later became a television and movie writer. "It's really... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Change Channel
background as an example of the diversity of the gay experience in America. “Advertisers and cable servers seem to understand that this is one of the last great underserved market segments,” Graden noted. “If you’re gay or lesbian, you have seen yourself represented on... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 2013
- Working Paper
NBC and the 2012 London Olympics: Unexpected Success
By: Stephen A. Greyser and Vadim Kogan
"The 2010 Vancouver Winter Games lost $223 million, astonishing for a 17-day event. Next year's London Summer Games, which cost a record Olympic rights fee of $1.18 billion, are expected to lose at least as much..." wrote Richard Sandomir in The New York Times. "NBC... View Details
Keywords: Success; Profit; Sports; Failure; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Vancouver; Beijing; London; Brazil; Russia
Greyser, Stephen A., and Vadim Kogan. "NBC and the 2012 London Olympics: Unexpected Success." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-028, September 2013.
- Web
Thomas Murphy | Baker Library
Thomas Murphy MBA 1949, Capital Cities/ABC Play Video duration: 58:24 Thomas “Tom” Murphy, HBS 1949. Interview conducted in December 2000 Thomas “Tom” Murphy, HBS 1949, joined a small television station in upstate New York after... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Heart of the Deal
of Comcast who will run the new enterprise, has high-profile business, especially TV business, in his genes. His father, Dan Burke (MBA ’55), is the former CEO of Capital Cities/ABC and a television industry legend; and an uncle, James... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
What’s On?
KILAR After working at Amazon.com for nine years, in 2007 Jason Kilar (MBA ’97) became CEO of Hulu, the service that brings popular television programming and movies to computers via high-quality streaming video. Hulu, free and... View Details
L. Lowry Mays
Beginning with one small radio station in 1972, Mays went on to create a massive media empire under the name Clear Channel Communications. Mays was particularly aggressive in acquiring new entities as deregulation spread to the radio and telecommunications industries.... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
John W. Kluge
sale of substantial and wide ranging assets ranging from his television and radio broadcasting interests to outdoor advertising, paging, cellular telephone and entertainment businesses. View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 17 Feb 2011
- News
Field Report: Rwanda
a private media company and Karisimbi client. The group worked with Tele-10 to identify ways to improve its advertising sales process for radio advertising and to help improve customer service for its satellite television business. “We... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Going Down Easy
show (Sundays at 4:30 p.m.) shuns an “overheated” approach. “It doesn’t constantly remind people what a good idea it is to be watching this television show.” View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Robert Kraft Launches Campaign to Combat Antisemitism
person," as reported by CBS News. The campaign was launched through Kraft's Foundation to Combat Antisemitism and will feature public service television advertisements as well as a social media campaign. Kraft told the Associated Press... View Details
Michael R. Bloomberg
expansive financial coverage. He parlayed his initial success on Wall Street into a full-service financial news media empire including radio stations, television programs, and Internet coverage before becoming the Mayor of New York City. View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
For over twenty years, Boston native Joe Toplyn has written and produced television comedy. His credits include Late Night with David Letterman, for which he won four Emmy Awards; The Tonight Show with Jay Leno; The Late Show with David... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
industry as another catalyst was gathering critical mass: the dynamic pairing of television and sports. Neil R. Austrian (MBA '68), president of the National Football League, explains: "The 1958 Colts-Giants overtime game was the NFL's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
John C. Malone
formed joint partnerships to build a combined cable telephone system in Britain. Under Malone’s leadership, TCI became the #2 cable television operation in the United States and grew into a media powerhouse that he eventually sold to... View Details
Keywords: Communications
- March 2001 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
Time Warner Inc. vs. The Walt Disney Company (A): Pulling the Plug
Describes negotiation impasse between Time Warner, Inc. and The Walt Disney Co. over the retransmission of the ABC Network over Time Warner's cable systems. More broadly, the case depicts the shifting balance of power between content creators and distributors in the... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Process; Internet and the Web; Television Entertainment; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Telecommunications Industry
Watkins, Michael D., and Cate Reavis. "Time Warner Inc. vs. The Walt Disney Company (A): Pulling the Plug." Harvard Business School Case 801-186, March 2001. (Revised August 2001.)
Edward J. Noble
Noble founded the entity that eventually became Life Savers Incorporated and grew it from a failing mint producer into a global business, with sales of $20 million in the mid-1950s. Noble also founded the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) and shepherded it to a... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Robert L. Johnson
Johnson created the first and only cable television station with programming for and about black Americans. Though he struggled to gain a subscriber base in the early eighties, Johnson persevered and built a viable enterprise. When he... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Desiderio A. Arnaz
In 1951, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball first telecasted their situation comedy - “I Love Lucy,” which was an overnight sensation. Desilu Productions literally created the phenomenon of reruns. Selling the rerun rights of “I Love Lucy” to CBS, Arnaz purchased RKO studios.... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online
business case on the icon of daytime television and chairman of a major media empire was challenge enough for Professor Nancy Koehn and colleagues. Oprah Winfrey’s visit to the HBS campus in spring 2005 to talk with graduating students... View Details