The News Review:
- Execs agree deal’sa milestone
- The Walt Disney Company Reports Earnings for Fiscal Year 2008
- Susan Lucci Caught Up in Detroit Drama
- PacificNet Presents Mobile & Lottery Gaming Technologies at the …
- Man wins £50000 on Better Casino’s video games
Execs agree deal’sa milestone
Sports Business Journal (subscription) NC
The deal which saw ESPN bid $100 million more than Fox to secure the BCS rights had attendees questioning what broadcasters had to do to be able to compete for future rights. Cable networks like ESPN have an advantage thanks to their dual revenue streams from advertising and affiliate sales. ESPN which gets about $4 per subscriber per month from cable and satellite operators pulls in more from affiliate revenue than other national cable networks giving it another advantage. The consensus seemed to be that broadcasters will have to change their strategy. “There’s this whole issue of retransmission consent” said Fox Sports Networks President Bob Thompson. “That can become their second revenue stream. You have to decide if you’re going to go after cash or get other channels launched on the cable side.
The Walt Disney Company Reports Earnings for Fiscal Year 2008
MarketWatch
1 billion for the year driven by increases at ESPN higher income at our cable equity investments and increases at ABC Family and the domestic Disney Channels partially offset by a favorable settlement of a claim with a distributor in the prior year at the international Disney Channels. The growth at ESPN was driven by higher affiliate and advertising revenue partially offset by higher programming administrative and marketing costs. The increase in affiliate revenue was due to contractual rate increases and subscriber growth. Increased advertising revenues reflected improved rates and ratings. Growth at our cable equity investments was primarily due to higher affiliate and advertising revenue at Lifetime and a gain on the sale of a European cable channel. The growth at ABC Family was primarily due to the absence of Major League Baseball programming costs higher affiliate revenue reflecting contractual rate increases and higher advertising revenue reflecting higher average ratings and rates. The increase at the domestic Disney Channel was primarily due to higher affiliate revenue reflecting subscriber growth and contractual rate increases and strong DVD sales of High School Musical 2.
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Susan Lucci Caught Up in Detroit Drama
AdAge.com (subscription)
Worse Grant Thornton LLP said last month it was revising its estimate of the number of auto dealerships expected close in the next year drastically upward to 3800 from 2700. TV stations — whether affiliates or owned and operated by a network — are worried an automotive-industry crash combined with most soaps’ eroding daytime ratings might wreck their bottom lines. “We’re scared to death” said Kevin Lovell general manager of KVIA-TV in El Paso Texas and a member of the ABC affiliate board’s executive panel. Lovell added that at least 25% of his station’s ad revenue came from local auto dealers and that such ad revenue is down 25% for the year. “We just don’t know how much of it is coming back. We’re probably just going to have to live with less.
PacificNet Presents Mobile & Lottery Gaming Technologies at the …
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Man wins £50000 on Better Casino’s video games
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