This past week Time Warner Cable came close to dropping the Fox Network from its system due to a dispute concerning retransmission fees. In case you aren’t aware, cable companies like Time Warner and Comcast pay networks for transmitting their channels on their systems. For broadcast networks that opt out of must-carry regulation these payments are called retransmission [...]

It’s no secret that publishing is a tough place to be in right now. Amidst lower subscriptions, circulation and ad revenues, magazines have been looking for a way to stay afloat. Towards that end Condé Nast recently hired McKinsey & Company to take a look at their entire operation. The innovative Maghound subscription service launched [...]

Yesterday an article in The New York times highlighted the results of a media industry report from the private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS): An interesting shift occurred in 2008, the report said. For the first time, consumers spent more time with media they paid for, like books or cable television, than with primarily [...]

On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a very important decision in favor of Cablevision regarding a lawsuit that had been filed against it by several entertainment companies. The court ruling is allowing the cable company to offer a hosted DVR service to its subscribers. Rather than having to provide cable boxes with a built-in [...]