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Viacom, Lionsgate, and MGM announced that they will no longer sell their movies to Showtime (owned by CBS) and instead will launch a new, fourth pay TV channel. The announcement…
After falling year-over-year, often substantially for eight of the past nine weeks, the weekend box office offered a respite. Led by better than expected openings for the top two films,…
At the recent National Association of Broadcasters conference, one of the more popular topics was mobile TV. Mobile TV is the ability for consumers to watch live TV on their…
Central European Media Enterprises (CETV), recommended by Jim Cramer last Friday on Mad Money announced that it is acquiring two radio stations in Romania. Until this point, CETV has been…
New York Times reported terrible 1Q08 results. Adjusted EPS of 4 cents missed the consensus of 14 cents. Revenues of $748 million were a little short of the $752 consensus.…
Cable stocks have acted pretty well this year. Comcast is up a bit and Time Warner Cable is down slightly. Both have easily outperformed the S&P 500. The other large…
News Corporation shares traded down 4.6% on Monday in response to a downgrade from Bernstein Research analyst Michael Nathanson. Nathanson lowered his rating from outperform to market perform, cut his…
The Wall Street Journal wrote a damning and extremely damaging article about one of Northlake's long positions. The story on American Apparel (APP) appeared on the front page of the…
I remain long Disney across Northlake client accounts including my own accounts. Down just 3%, the shares have acted fairly well this year compared to many other media investments, particularly…
Time Warner (TWX) shares are down 10.8% so far this year, lagging most other large cap media stocks. News Corp (NWS) is down 6.1%, Disney (DIS) is down just 3.7%,…
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