David Lieberman
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Viacom Secures Data Leak That Research Firm Deemed Potentially “Catastrophic”
Viacom "dodged a major bullet" after its computers exposed critical data internal access credentials before the problem was fixed. → Read More
T-Mobile And Sprint Shares Rise On Report Of “Active Talks” About A Merger
Shares of Sprint and T-Mobile are up in midday trading following a CNBC report that the companies are in "active talks" about a merger. → Read More
Herb Scannell Tapped To Be CEO Of Mitú, Latino-Focused Video Producer
Mitú, an English-language digital channel that targets young Latinos, may turn some heads today with the announcement of its new CEO. → Read More
‘Star Wars’ Will Receive Promotional Help From Tie-Ins With Six Major Brands
Six major brands including General Mills, Nissan, Verizon, and Vizio hope to feel The Force in December when Disney releases Star Wars: The Last Jedi. → Read More
Australian Court Dismisses Murdoch-led Challenge To CBS Bid For Ten Network
CBS appears poised to win Ten Network Holdings after Australia's Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the sale raised by Fox co-Executive Chairman Lachlan Murdoch and entrepreneur Bruce Gordon. The nation's No. → Read More
Lachlan Murdoch And Bruce Gordon Bid For Network Ten Following Law Change
The battle over Network Ten, Australia's No. 3 broadcaster, just intensified. Its largest shareholder, Bruce Gordon, teamed with Fox co-Executive Chairman Lachlan Murdoch to make a bid -- possibly topping CBS' announced plan to buy the company. → Read More
NBCU Taps Claire Atkinson To Lead New Media Business News Team
The business of media business news is about to become a lot more competitive. NBCUniversal says this morning that it has hired Claire Atkinson to be senior media editor leading its first team to monitor the industry for NBC News, MSNBC, and NBCNews.com. → Read More
Scripps Networks CEO Could See $91.6M Golden Parachute In Sale To Discovery
Scripps Networks CEO Ken Lowe could enjoy a $91.6 million golden parachute from his company's agreement to sell to Discovery Communications, according to an SEC filing today. His package would consist of $20.0 million in cash severence, $37.4 million in equity, $9. → Read More
Les Moonves: CBS All Access To Launch In Australia As It Expands Digital Horizons
CBS has digital subscriptions and international expansion in its eye based on CEO Les Moonves' comments this morning at the Goldman Sachs Annual Communacopia Conference. → Read More
Verizon CEO Says He Has “Moved On” From Eyeing A Cable Deal
Verizon isn't interested in buying a cable operator, having determined that their fiber-optic line infrastructure "isn't there," CEO Lowell McAdam told an investor gathering this morning. "We've moved on," he said at the Goldman Sachs Annual Communacopia Conference. → Read More
Cord Cutting Is Accelerating Faster Than Expected, Research Firm Says
Looks like the video streaming services that initially scoffed at the suggestion that they'd cannibalize traditional pay TV were wrong. Research firm eMarketer today cut its forecast for 2017 U.S. TV ad spending by 1.5% to $71.65 billion -- a mere 0. → Read More
AMC Entertainment CFO: Studios Won’t Take “Nuclear Option” With PVOD
An AMC Entertainment exec said today that the world's biggest theater chain is talking to studios about a plan to offer VOD movies to home viewers. → Read More
Lachlan Murdoch Predicts PVOD Will Come “Sooner Rather Than Later”
For the second year in a row, one of Rupert Murdoch's sons speaking at the Goldman Sachs Annual Communacopia Conference attacked the 90-day exclusive window movie theaters have for new releases -- and supported a new premium video-on-demand system. → Read More
Viacom CEO Says Low-Priced, Sports-Free TV Bundle Coming This Year
Viacom CEO Bob Bakish didn't announce the launch of a $20-a-month, sports-free pay TV bundle -- but he came close -- at an investor gathering this morning. → Read More
STX Entertainment Teams With Google To Introduce, And Produce For, VR Channel
STX Entertainment says today that it has forged a virtual reality alliance with Google to launch what they call a "pay-per-experience channel" for "high quality, mobile VR." STXsurreal, created after STX bought Surreal Inc. about a year ago, will make several live-action, scripted VR series. → Read More
Comcast CEO Urges Investors To Put “A Couple Of Bad Weeks” Into Perspective
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts acknowledged today that the cable giant had "a couple of bad weeks" with the damage to its systems from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma -- and that apparently deflated an early rally for his company's stock after a widely respected analyst upgraded his recommendation to "buy. → Read More
Lionsgate CEO Calls Starz Buildup His Highest Priority
Lionsgate has "no higher priority" than to build Starz, CEO Jon Feltheimer told investors at the company's annual shareholder meeting in Toronto -- the first since the studio closed the $4.4 billion deal to buy the premium network company in December. → Read More
CBS Renews TV Affiliation Deals With Four Sinclair Broadcast Stations
Sinclair Broadcast Group seems eager to tie up loose ends as the FCC weighs the company's $3.9 billion deal to buy Tribune Media. Just weeks after renewing some affiliation deals with Fox, the TV station owner says today that it has a multi-year deal with CBS for some outlets whose affiliations wer... → Read More
ComScore Postpones Financial Reports To March As It Weighs Strategic Alternatives
ComScore continues to struggle with its accounting woes: The audience measurement company's shares are down 4.7% in mid-day trading after it said that it has a new CFO, lost seven board members, will make a "strategic review," and -- with its financial review "more complex and time-consuming than pr... → Read More
Paramount CEO: Still Waiting For Huahua Cash, But With A “Replacement” Plan
Viacom's Paramount Pictures is still waiting for an overdue payment from China's Huahua Media -- part of a $1 billion, three-year film finance deal made this year -- studio CEO Jim Gianopulos told an investor group today. But "very shortly, we'll know" whether it's coming. → Read More