The Media Drop

With Tuesday’s announcement that Time Warner was looking to off up to 18 magazine titles it currently owns, some less than a decade after buying them in the first place, followed by the New York Times Co. stating that it was interested in selling the nine television stations that it owns, what’s a buyer to […]

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Word is from Reuters that two new NBC shows - “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” and “Twenty Good Years” - will be up on aol.com a week before their television debut. I’m sure that has nothing to do with quite a few reviews getting up online in advance of the airing on the medium […]

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For anyone who’s been blogging for awhile, you’re probably familiar with the volume of pitches and other materials that have begun landing in your inbox from public relations professionals (and some not-so-professionals), especially in the last year or so. As someone whose day job it is to work with clients and our own business on […]

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The AP’s David Rising reported this morning that Bertelsmann AG will be selling BMG to Vivendi for more than $2 billion, making Vivendi by far the “largest music publisher by catalog size.”
It’s unclear if this does anything big that will be seen by the average consumer purchasing music, except for the potential for the “rich […]

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AdAge’s Abbey Klaassen informs this morning about the announcement by Viacom that its CEO, Tom Freston, has resigned. He is set to be replaced by Philippe Dauman, currently sitting on the company’s board.

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