Midday Glance: Media companies
AP - Tue Jul 29, 12:30PM CDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of some top media companies are mixed at 1 p.m.:
Will Fox Pay What Time Warner Wants?
Daniel Kline, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Tue Jul 29, 10:28AM CDT
Rupert Murdoch is not easily rebuffed. You don't get to be a billionaire media mogul without figuring out how to get what you want. That makes it likely that his failed bid for Fox to acquire Time Warner won't be his only attempt to buy the...
Early Glance: Media companies
AP - Tue Jul 29, 10:28AM CDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of some top media companies are mixed at 10 a.m.:
Rentrak Announces Top DVD & Blu-ray Sales and Rentals for Week Ending July 20, 2014
PR Newswire - Mon Jul 28, 1:51PM CDT
Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT) today announced the Top-10 DVD & Blu-ray Disc sales and rentals according to the company's Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials tracking services which are based on estimated consumer spending per data collected for the week ending July 20, 2014.
The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Twenty-First Century Fox, CBS, Walt Disney, Time Warner and Tyco International
PR Newswire - Mon Jul 28, 8:30AM CDT
Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include the Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc (Nasdaq:FOXA-Free Report), CBS Corp. (NYSE:CBS-Free Report), Walt Disney Company (NYSE
'Sons of Anarchy' book announced at Comic-Con
By ALICIA RANCILIO - AP - Mon Jul 28, 6:16AM CDT
SAN DIEGO (AP) — "Sons of Anarchy" is revving up for its final season but the outlaw motorcycle club will live on in books.
An Interesting Bet on Twenty-First Century Fox in Las Vegas
Bradley Seth, McNew, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Sat Jul 26, 8:00AM CDT
Casino.org While investors have mostly put Las Vegas on the back-burner in favor of the more profitable Macau, things are starting to pick up again in Las Vegas, to the benefit of gaming companies that have a lot to gain from the Vegas rebound. ...
Fitch: FOX Asset Sales Enhance Financial Flexibility in Pursuit of Time Warner
Business Wire - Fri Jul 25, 1:42PM CDT
Fitch Ratings believes Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc.'s (FOXA) decision to transfer its European direct broadcast satellite businesses to British Sky Broadcasting Group plc (BSkyB) in a transaction valued at approximately $9.3 billion improves the company's liquidity position and overall financial flexibility. Consideration for the exchange consists of $8.6 billion of cash and BSkyB's 21% interest in National Geographic Channels International and will generate approximately $7.2 billion of net cash proceeds. The transaction is in line with the company's objective to streamline its organizational structure.
Fox's Jarrett pleads guilty to disorderly conduct
AP - Fri Jul 25, 12:06PM CDT
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Fox News weekend anchor pleaded guilty Friday to disorderly conduct following after a May arrest at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in which a police video showed he struggled with officers.
Time Warner Sale Inches Closer as Murdoch's Fox Strikes Deal with BSkyB
at The Street - Fri Jul 25, 11:20AM CDT
The U.K. company will pay its largest shareholder $9 billion for Sky Italia and its majority stake in Sky Deutschland.
21st Century Fox Agrees to Combine European Satellite Television Holdings; New Sky will be Europe's Leading Pay-Television Business
Business Wire - Fri Jul 25, 1:40AM CDT
--Company Will Continue Share Repurchases in FY 2015 Under New Authorization
Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks
AP - Thu Jul 24, 12:23PM CDT
NEW YORK (AP) — A look at Nasdaq 10 most-active stocks at 1 p.m.:
Time Warner Would Be Crazy Like a Fox to Sell HBO
at The Street - Thu Jul 24, 10:25AM CDT
If Time Warner sells HBO, Turner and Warner Brothers to 21st Century Fox they would sell CNN, Headline News and TCM to CBS and maybe other assets to other companies.
Will the NBA Double Its Television Rights Fees?
Daniel Kline and Jake Mann, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Wed Jul 23, 11:41AM CDT
In a DVR-driven television world, live sports brings in live viewers who watch commercials in real-time. That's caused an escalation of rights fees, which has benefited every major sport, from the National Football League to lesser properties like...
Will Fox Buy Time Warner?
Daniel Kline and Jake Mann, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Wed Jul 23, 8:12AM CDT
Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch's $80 billion offer for Time Warner was rejected by the company's board. But the unsolicited bid effectively puts the media giant into play, and Murdoch is likely to try again. A potential deal between the two media...