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The Jay Leno Effect: Eyeballs Bail on Broadcast for Cable

Peter Kafka in Media on December 22, 2009 at 9:32 am PT

When you sit down to watch TV at night, you don’t distinguish between shows that are on broadcast TV and those on cable. You just want to watch TV. But TV executives and advertisers haven’t caught up with you. Maybe Jay Leno will help them figure it out.

Wall Street to Comcast: No NBC for Us, Thank You Very Much

Peter Kafka in Media on October 2, 2009 at 11:39 am PT

Maybe this is why Comcast rushed to knock down a story that said it bought NBC Universal from GE: It knew Wall Street would hate the idea.

Hollywood’s How-To Guide to Web Piracy

Peter Kafka in Media on September 30, 2009 at 12:05 pm PT

Want to learn how to steal your favorite movie or TV show? A 10-minute video starring a Paramount executive offers detailed instructions.

Time Warner’s $4.2 Billion AOL Fire Sale

Peter Kafka in Media on September 30, 2009 at 3:46 am PT

Google marked down AOL’s value from $20 billion to $5.5 billion earlier this year. That’s still too high, argues a JP Morgan analyst.

Will an Ad Recovery Pass Viacom By?

Peter Kafka in Media on August 25, 2009 at 6:24 am PT

Hard to tell how much of the modest ad recovery we’re hearing about is real versus hoped for. But analyst Richard Greenfield says that either way, Viacom won’t be getting a boost.

Kara Visits the Monaco Media Forum: Opening Dinner

Kara Swisher in News on November 9, 2007 at 12:03 am PT

So, the Monaco Media Forum in Monte-Carlo kicked off last night with a dinner at the famed Hermitage Hotel on the Square Beaumarchais. It was a fancy gold-leaf setting for the gathering of Silicon Valley and European digital media execs, investors and entrepreneurs, a kickoff to two days of discussion about the state of tech [...]