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Christine A. Hefner
The daughter of Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner, Christine was responsible for the elimination of the company’s massive debt and the dramatic restructuring of the organization. Hefner eliminated a number of money losing ventures and invested heavily in View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
Samuel I. Newhouse
At the age of 26 with $600 borrowed from his relatives, Newhouse bought his first local newspaper, the Staten Island Advance. Over the next five decades, Newhouse would amass a communications giant including a collection of 22 local newspapers, 6 View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
Hugh M. Hefner
doing, he brought a sense of respectability to an otherwise disrespected industry. By the seventies, circulation of Playboy peaked at 7 million, and Hefner had added night clubs, a cable television channel,... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
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... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Michael D. Eisner
Eisner has also upgraded and expanded Disney’s theme parks and hotels, and has added hundreds of retail Disney Stores. In 1995, Eisner acquired the ABC Television Network and ESPN, the cable sports network.... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
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Gavriel Goidel
I think my true calling is to be a stay-at-home dad. After all, the times I was unemployed were also my happiest. Growing up in Bnei Brak, an ultra-orthodox Jewish town in Israel, I never saw a woman wearing pants, and none of my friends had cellphones or View Details
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Where can I find entertainment & media industry/market analysis, company data and news? OVERVIEWS AND ANALYSIS IBISWorld
Research reports on a wide range of industries, including Cable Networks, Television Production, and... View Details
Research reports on a wide range of industries, including Cable Networks, Television Production, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Stealth Mogul
purchased and revived Wired magazine before selling it at a sizable profit to CondŽ Nast. Last year, Providence led a consortium that bought the largest cable television company in Europe. A native of... View Details
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
world through television and print publications, as they had for decades. There was, however, one big media game changer: the Fox News Channel (FNC). Founded in 1996 by Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch, FNC was an unusual newcomer... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
television brings people together and lets advertisers build giant brands and promote broad cultural trends, the Web segments the audience into small pockets of interest. Mass marketers have a whole new game to learn if they aspire to... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil some decades ago, I saw how the arrival of electricity — and a television mounted in the public square — changed life in my rural village. The outside world became visible. Other peoples and places were... View Details
- Profile
Brian T. Bedol
While there, among many assignments, he took over the marketing and promotion of the Six Flags Theme parks and drove revenues and attendance to an all-time high. But Bedol had long harbored an urge to start his own business and create a classic sports View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
“Traditional television can be a friction-filled experience,” he says. “Often you have to go to a certain room of the house at a certain time and find the right channel for your show—is it 723 or 694 on the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
companies strengthening themselves across several media activities. Thus Disney, which began as an entertainment provider before adding network and cable television companies, now owns a 43 percent stake in... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
September 2007, that strategy was due for a major test. TiVo was a maker of digital video recorder (DVR) products and a distributor of DVR technology. Rogers believed that macro-trends in the home entertainment industry—the convergence of standard View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Jason A. Kilar
network and cable TV. But to date, there hasn’t been a clear path for most of these talented creators to build sustainable, enduring businesses on the basis of their video storytelling alone. Vessel provides early access to the web’s best... 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
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
European Football Associations Champions League Final on television—that's 61 percent of German households—according to Nielson. Television remains a very important medium for sports broadcasting. Viewers tend to watch sports events live,... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
industry he sees as vulnerable is television and cable, with joint risk of decoupling and unbundling. While they may have won the battle against Aereo, their business model, which forces customers to buy programming by the bundle rather... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding