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Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 4 at 12:13 pm PT
TransGaming, a Canada-based distributor of games for set-top boxes and computers, has acquired the interactive TV division of Oberon Media, a New York-based games distributor. TransGaming will pay up to $7 million, including $3 million in cash on closing, $2 million in earn-outs and four million TransGaming shares. Oberon’s network, which in North American includes DISH Network and DirecTV, distributes games to nearly 50 million households.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 23, 2011 at 3:30 am PT
The satellite TV service has a whole lot on its plate. So why is it wasting time placing bogus comments on Web sites?
Peter Kafka in Media on October 27, 2011 at 7:29 am PT
Different quarter, same story. Today it’s Time Warner Cable, which lost 128,000 subscribers. Did they go to competitors like Verizon? Or disruptors like Netflix? You make the call.
Peter Kafka in Media on September 8, 2011 at 3:25 pm PT
Of course, you
should watch football on TV. But if for some reason you can’t …
Peter Kafka in News on August 11, 2011 at 7:38 am PT
The initial bids for the video site should come in about a week from now, most likely at $1.5 billion or more. But that number could still move around, depending on what Hulu really ends up selling.
Peter Kafka in Media on August 5, 2011 at 7:12 am PT
Another Big Media outfit sings the praises of the Web. Viacom says digital services are showering it with easy money for repeats of Jon Stewart and “Jersey Shore,” and more deals are on the way.
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Peter Kafka in Media on August 4, 2011 at 3:56 pm PT
Add one more company sniffing around Hulu: DirecTV confirmed today, during its earnings call, that
it is looking at Hulu, too (or, as some outlets might like to put it, “in early talks to consider a bid”). As we’ve noted before, this isn’t surprising, and compared to other would-be bidders,
the satellite-TV company might make a logical home for the video site (jointly owned by Disney, Comcast and News Corp., which also owns this site.)
Peter Kafka in Media on March 15, 2011 at 5:52 am PT
It’s not even close, says NPD: Netflix has 61 percent of the digital movie market, with Comcast, Apple and everyone else running far behind. More surprising: An estimated 25 percent of all home video is now delivered digitally.
