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The Year of the Man-Child

Catie Lazarus | Posted 12.16.2009 | Comedy


Catie Lazarus

What Did You Learn in 2009? Test your knowledge by answering these objectively scientific questions about the celebrities, politicians and fifteen minute famers who made headlines.

AOL Officially Separates From Time Warner

Wall Street Journal | Posted 12.09.2009 | Business


After seven months of preparation, AOL is set to be officially independent of media giant Time Warner Inc., closing the book on their disastrous 2001 ...

Jeff Bewkes: Broadcast Networks "May Not Survive"

The Daily Beast | Posted 11.06.2009 | Media


He's far less sanguine about free TV--a dinosaur awaiting a meteor strike. "The broadcast networks have fewer people watching, for shorter times of...

Victims, Victims Everywhere on Time Warner's HLN

Charles Warner | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media


Charles Warner

Last week when I blogged about CNN falling into fourth place in the cable news channel ratings, I became a victim of my blogging.

Time Warner Cable Profit Down 11%

AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media


Time Warner Cable Inc., the nation's second biggest cable TV operator, said Thursday its profit fell 11 percent in the third quarter, weighed down by ...

Time Warner Profit Down 38% In 3Q But Beats Expectations

AP | ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media


NEW YORK — Media conglomerate Time Warner Inc. reported a 38 percent drop in third-quarter profit Wednesday after being hurt by declines at its ...

The New York Times and Bloomberg Act as Stenographers for MSNBC on Anti-CNN Coverage

Charles Warner | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media


Charles Warner

Neither of two news stories made the connection between CNN's rating declines and the drastic change in its position on Time Warner Cable in New York, where 10 percent of America's televisions are.

Ted Turner Passed Money Around "Like a Joint"; Wishes He Could Reclaim "Fluffy" CNN

bloomberg.com | Brett Pulley and Anita Sharpe | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business


Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Ted Turner, the cable television pioneer who became one of the richest Americans, recalls the pain of losing his job at Time Wa...

Print Publishers Debate 'Hulu For Magazines'

Posted 12.02.2009 | Technology


Print publishers have been searching for the business model that will keep them afloat and Time Inc. has put a new proposal in the mix: to create a 'H...

Jeff Bewkes: Time Warner Will Still Own Time Inc. In 5 Years

DailyFinance | Jeff BercoviciOct 2nd 2009 at 11:20AM | Posted 12.02.2009 | Media


"Time Inc. is not for sale," Bewkes told his interviewer, journalist Jeffrey Goldberg. "People made these rumors because they want a lot of activity."...

Hollywood, Recording Industry Beg Obama to Help Save Them From Pirates

Sam Gustin | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics


Sam Gustin

Faced with the global menace of digital piracy, some of the largest entertainment companies in the world have banded together to beg the Obama adminis...

News Viewers: Fox -- News Users: CNN

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media


Reese Schonfeld

The full third quarter cable news ratings are in, and nothing has changed very much. Fox News still has more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined.

Comcast Said to be Weighing NBC Bid; Denies Report of $35 Billion Deal

Sam Gustin | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media


Sam Gustin

Comcast is in talks to buy NBC Universal, the entertainment giant, from General Electric (GE) in a blockbuster deal that -- if true -- would reverberate throughout the media world.

Time Inc Spinoff: Time Warner To Sell Magazine Unit, Says Shareholder

Reuters | Posted 11.26.2009 | Media


Time Warner Inc will eventually sell the Time Inc magazine unit and could buy holdings in its core entertainment category, Gordon Crawford, managing d...

Time Warner, YouTube Strike Clips Deal

AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 09.19.2009 | Media


Google's video site has hammered out a deal with Time Warner (TWX) to show clips from the media conglomerate's' cable networks, TV shows and movies. ...

Investors Worrying Comcast Will Try To Acquire Viacom Or Time Warner

Reuters | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media


Investors worry that Comcast might use growing cash reserves to go after names such as Viacom Inc, owner of MTV Networks and Paramount film studio, or...

Time Warner Profit Down 34% In 2Q

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media


LOS ANGELES — Time Warner Inc.'s second-quarter earnings beat Wall Street forecasts Wednesday despite a declining advertising market, as its Tur...

What Is the Use Of Having Power If You Don't Abuse It?

Norman Horowitz | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media


Norman Horowitz

In order to confuse those who from time to time come across something that I write, I have decided to deal in one article with some of the "transgress...

AOL Joins the Internet Party

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media


Jarvis Coffin

Un-encumbered by the weighty media assets of Time Warner, AOL has discovered the joys of smallness online, and the ability to publish freely according to the range of human interests and emotions.

Comcast, Time Warner Team To Test "TV Everywhere," On-Demand Web Subscription Service

AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media


PHILADELPHIA — Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corp. on Wednesday took concrete steps to bring cable television shows to the Internet _ but only fo...

Carping

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media


Yvette Kantrow

Maybe it's just me, but I'm getting tired of the media telling me what I need and don't need. Time's Cheapskate blog is just the latest manifestation of this trend

AOL Is Free Again

Charles Warner | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media


Charles Warner

The day Time Warner announced it was spinning off AOL, a former colleague of mine at AOL (I was a VP there from 1998 to 2002) Twittered, "After nearly...

Time Warner Gets Well-Timed Tax Break In AOL Spinoff

Fortune | Allan Sloan Senior Editor at Large | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business


Time Warner's plan to distribute AOL stock to its shareholders in a tax-free transaction is benefiting from a little-noticed change last year in the r...

Obama's CyberSecurity Speech Shows He Gets the Open Web

Art Brodsky | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media


Art Brodsky

Administration support for an open, non-discriminatory and competitive Internet is wonderful. It will be even more wonderful when we get some Congressional support for that Internet.

Time Warner CEO Hints At Online Fees For Magazines

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media


SAN FRANCISCO — Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Jeffrey Bewkes chimed in Friday with the chorus of publishers wondering how much longer newspap...