| Dec 05, 2008 |
Fairfax chief exits Australia's oldest media group
Fairfax declined to provide a reason why David Kirk, the former captain of New Zealand's All Blacks rugby team and a Rhodes scholar, had resigned as chief executive
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| Dec 05, 2008 |
Celts spurn Grade over single ITV
STV and UTV, the two UK regional franchise holders of ITV licences, told Ofcom, that they wanted nothing to do with a single nationwide licence for Channel 3 in the UK
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| Dec 05, 2008 |
China pursues state media listing
China National Publishing, the state-owned group through which the country controls the import and distribution of foreign media and books, is planning to restructure and list some of its subsidiaries
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| Dec 05, 2008 |
Pinnacle collapse puts music labels at risk
Smaller record companies will be hit as one of the UK's largest distributors of independent music, which had a 4.3% share of the market last year, went into administration
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| Dec 05, 2008 |
Ex-Yahoo engineer to run Microsoft online
Microsoft yesterday named a former top Yahoo engineer as head of its online division, signalling a renewed focus on technology in its efforts to catch up with Google...
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| Dec 05, 2008 |
Collapse of Pinnacle puts independent music labels at risk
The future of many UK independent music labels was under threat yesterday following the collapse of Pinnacle Entertainment, the specialist distributor. Pinnacle, one...
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| Dec 05, 2008 |
Just because it worked for Oprah..
What kind of person would start a magazine in a recession? Someone with a sizeable sense of self? A chunky ego, if you will? Step forward Peaches Geldof and Jamie...
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| Dec 04, 2008 |
EMI in US distribution talks with competitors
The music publisher is in talks with rivals over a US distribution deal that could bring in tens of millions of dollars for the indebted company, after earlier talks about selling some of its labels stalled
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| Dec 04, 2008 |
Viacom slashes jobs and freezes salaries
Viacom announced a fresh wave of job cuts from its global workforce, highlighting the bleak outlook for the media sector
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| Dec 04, 2008 |
Chief executive leaves Entertainment Rights
Nick Phillips will part ways with the troubled company, a month after it issued a profits warning. He is the second chief executive to do so in less than a year
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| Dec 04, 2008 |
Regulators bring Kangaroo back down to earth
ITV's online ambitions suffered a further setback when it was concluded that its video-on-demand joint venture with BBC Worldwide and Channel 4 'will restrict competition'
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| Dec 03, 2008 |
Redstone agrees partial sale of 1,500 cinemas
Media mogul Sumner Redstone has reached agreement with his daughter, Shari, to put some of National Amusement's 1,500 cinemas on the block rather than the entire division, as part of debt-restructuring discussions to avoid selling more shares of Viacom and CBS, people familiar with the matter said
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| Dec 03, 2008 |
Dark side of the boom
EMI: What insiders thought would be the private equity deal of last year has turned into a hard slog simply to recoup investments
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| Dec 03, 2008 |
Regulatory blow for online video service
Competition Commission says plans by the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 for a commercial internet video service are 'likely to result in a substantial lessening of competition' in the supply of online content
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| Dec 03, 2008 |
Coming at you soon
John Gapper's blog: I went to see Bolt , the new Walt Disney film, this weekend (along with my target audience). I watched it in 3D with the help of a...
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| Dec 03, 2008 |
Arcandor set to name Eick as new chief
Arcandor, the troubled German retail-and-travel conglomerate, is set to replace its chief executive with Karl-Gerhard Eick, DeutscheTelekom's chief financial officer,...
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| Dec 03, 2008 |
Trailblazer who dragged newspapers into the modern era
Harry Henry, who has died aged 92, was a pioneer in market research, becoming the first to use computers to analyse survey data when Bill Gates was barely out of...
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| Dec 02, 2008 |
Phorm's US board members quit
Four directors have stepped down as a result of differences with its chief executive as to the management and future direction of the controversial web advertising specialist
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| Dec 02, 2008 |
Social lenders go where banks fear to tread
In a few months the Thames will carry some unusual traffic: a high-tech floating "rubbish muncher" that will scoop up plastic bottles and other detritus. The...
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| Dec 02, 2008 |
Lord Lamont joins Phorm
Some notable names have joined Phorm , the internet advertising group, after a boardroom clear-out. Kent Ertugrul, chief executive officer, has hired Lord...
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