13 posts and columns on Sharon Waxman

Movies You've Heard Of Coming To YouTube. Will You Rent Them?

in Media on April 25, 2011 at 9:36 pm PT

YouTube is finally ready to move its movie rental service from a long-running test into a real, bona fide movie store. The problem for both Hollywood and YouTube: Consumers seem to like the Netflix subscription service more than one-off rentals.

Netflix Adds (Some of) Relativity’s Movies to Its Streaming Catalog

in Media on July 5, 2010 at 8:33 pm PT

Netflix is set to announce a new deal with Hollywood production shop Relativity Media that will give it streaming rights to some of the movies Relativity works on. Not an earth-shaking deal, but a sign of things to come.

Netflix Adds (Some of) Relativity's Movies to Its Streaming Catalog

in Media on July 5, 2010 at 8:33 pm PT

Netflix is set to announce a new deal with Hollywood production shop Relativity Media that will give it streaming rights to some of the movies Relativity works on. Not an earth-shaking deal, but a sign of things to come.

Wolff vs. Waxman, Round 2. Rubber Match on CNN Sunday.

in Media on April 8, 2010 at 8:52 am PT

It took a little longer than I expected, but Michael Wolff has indeed penned a column insulting The Wrap founder Sharon Waxman, who sent his Newser site a cease and desist notice last night. And if you don’t want to read about this but still want to see a fight, you’re in luck.

Waxman to Wolff: Unhand My Content!

in Media on April 7, 2010 at 3:41 pm PT

More shots fired in the great Web aggregation war. Or at least in the war between Sharon Waxman and Michael Wolff: The Wrap, the Hollywood news site Waxman runs, has demanded that Newser, the aggregation site Wolff founded, give her site better credit for its stories or stop using them altogether.

In Their Own Words: Comcast’s Case for–and Against–an NBCU Deal

in Media on October 1, 2009 at 4:16 am PT

Comcast says it doesn’t have a deal to buy NBC Universal. Does it want to buy NBC Universal? Ask COO Steve Burke and you’re going to get a confusing answer.
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Report: Comcast Buying NBC for $35 Billion. Comcast: “Inaccurate”

in Media on September 30, 2009 at 6:23 pm PT

Here’s the big media deal everyone has been waiting for. Or at least, here’s the report: Sharon Waxman of TheWrap reports that cable giant Comcast is buying all of NBC Universal from GE for $35 billion. Comcast says the report is “inaccurate.”
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Sold! Hollywood Blog Queen Nikki Finke Goes to…Mail.com.

in Media on June 23, 2009 at 6:26 am PT

The Nikki Finke auction is over, and the winner is…Mail.com. Jay Penske’s Mail.com Media Corporation, which owns the Mail.com email service and a small portfolio of Web sites, has acquired the blogger, whose Deadline Hollywood Daily is a must-read for Hollywood.
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Kara Visits Hollywood News Blog, TheWrap.com (Complete With Cottage HQ Like ATD!)

in News on May 5, 2009 at 10:00 am PT

While the current meme is that traditional journalism is getting the stuffing knocked out of it by the digital onslaught, it neglects to notice that a lot of really sharp news reporters are actually getting some real traction by finally starting to be serious about creating online sites that are designed to compete. As case in point, BoomTown recently visited the offices of TheWrap.com, a Web blog aimed at dominating breaking news about the business of Hollywood and the entertainment industry.
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