Company’s fourth quarter net revenue fell 7.8%
Revenues were down but TV audiences were up for Univision Communications, which posted a 2008 fourth-quarter net loss of $2.25 billion on Monday.
Net loss is attributed to, among other things, pretax charges for goodwill and asset impairments of $1.6 billion, an investment loss of $20.3 million, and [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Univision Posts Loss Despite Growth
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How To Create a Bootable Flash Drive
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You’ll need to get an operating system onto the flash drive. You’ve got a number of options, and I’ll discuss two. But first, a couple of rules that apply to any bootable flash drive:
1) Make sure your PC can boot from a flash drive. You can do this in the hardware settings (also [...]
NY State Eyes $350 Million for Productions
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New York would free up an additional $350 million for an existing film and TV production tax credit program under a budget agreement reached in Albany over the weekend.
Industry folks said, though, that the funding is a small Band-Aid for the short-term rather than a long-term solution. Their main concern: The new funding won’t [...]
Hoops Lift CBS in Ratings
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‘60 Minutes,’ ‘Race’ help network win night
The conclusion of Sunday’s men’s basketball tournament action combined with "60 Minutes" and "Amazing Race" to lift CBS to a ratings victory in key demos on a night when ABC didn’t air original episodes of its hit dramas.
Due to the live basketball, ratings for CBS programming [...]
Univision to Remain in Compliance with Debt
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Might be taken off air by Dish Network in absence of deal
Spanish-language media firm Univision Communications expects to remain in compliance with its debt covenants throughout 2009 despite weaker financial momentum amid the recession, CFO Andrew Hobson said in a conference call Monday.
Management also said it is preparing to potentially be taken [...]
Study Supports TV Ad Spending
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Research: Online video lags TV for young demo
Media buyers say while online video is growing, television is still the place to be for now.
This on the heels of a new Nielsen Media Research study on media usage debunking the myth that young people are abandoning television in favor of watching online video. [...]
Katie Couric and Big Apple Ratings
Posted in News on March 28, 2009 | Comments Off
Katie Couric will be honored with the Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement at this Sunday’s local Emmy Awards ceremony.
As we first reported last month, Couric is consistently coming in second in the New York market, beating NBC Nightly News. Couric tells the NYPost, "It’s all due to the staff, the correspondents and producer Rick [...]
Three Ways to Find the Latest iTunes Freebies
Posted in News on March 26, 2009 | Comments Off
Most iTunes users know that roughly once per week, Apple offers a few new freebies: music, TV shows, video clips, and even the occasional audiobook.
Of course, short of loading iTunes every day and poking around various areas of the Store, there’s no easy way to find the free stuff.
Actually, if you start [...]
NBC News Begs Its Employees Not to Make Them Pay Raises
Posted in News on March 26, 2009 | Comments Off
NBC News has instituted an across-the-board freeze on raises for its executives and talent, even those with contracts guaranteeing them salary bumps.
A tipster tells us that NBC News—and probably all of NBC Universal, though we’re not sure—is discreetly calling around and asking its on-air and off-air employees to take one for the team and [...]
CBC Faces 10 percent Staff Cuts
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Canadian media co. hit by dwindling ad sales
Canuck pubcaster CBC is set to lay off approximately 800 full-time staffers to address an anticipated shortfall this year of C$171 million ($139 million). The cuts rep roughly 10% of the public TV and radio service’s overall staff.
The red ink is forecast due to a [...]
