With the Time Warner Cable deal, Comcast would not only lock up 30 percent of the cable market, but pricing leverage in all directions — with customers, networks and over-the-web providers like Netflix.
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A big player like the one Comcast and Time Warner intend to create in the United States would probably meet antitrust obstacles on the Continent.
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Mattel and the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue have joined forces for the forthcoming issue.
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A loss of roughly $1 billion in income from discontinued operations in the year-earlier period accounted for much of the decline.
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Matt Bean, the managing editor at Sports Illustrated.com, will be the new editor of the entertainment magazine, which is expected to make a new push online.
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A multicultural talk show from Warner Bros, “The Real” was introduced to advertisers on Wednesday, the beginning of a season that hits its stride in May.
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The media conglomerate hailed its stronger revenue in its cable and movie units, while saying higher costs weighed on earnings.
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The job cuts, said to affect 500 employees, are part of a corporate restructuring as the company is spun off from its parent, Time Warner.
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Comcast, the nation’s largest cable provider and the owner of NBCUniversal, increased its net income 26 percent, to $1.9 billion, compared with a year ago.
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Questions to consider include the state of wireless 911 service, what happens when the power goes out and consumer protections.
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Time Warner Inc. said it plans to move to a new 80-story skyscraper on the Far West Side of Manhattan, and will sell its existing headquarters for $1.3 billion.
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Larry Hackett will leave Time Inc., the company said, and the editor of Entertainment Weekly, Jess Cagle, will succeed him.
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Initially making her mark as a secretary at Sports Illustrated who knew horses, Ms. Ryan was among the first women to lead major publications.
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Time Warner is joining other media conglomerates in pushing to compartmentalize their publishing units during a fragile time for the industry.
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The cable company announced that it had reached a multiyear agreement to renew distribution for Viacom Inc., whose networks include MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon.
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The new company being created to publish The Chicago Tribune and other papers will have to pay rent and a dividend to its former parent.
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Tim Armstrong, the chief executive of AOL, had a sentimental, and some would say debilitating, attachment to Patch, a network of local news sites that he is finally winding down.
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The aide, Jim Kennedy, worked for both Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton and for their foundation.
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Dissenters “may intend to tell you why we can’t do something,” the company’s chief says, “but if you listen hard, what they’re really telling you is what you must do to get something done.”
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Earnings were $1.2 billion in the third quarter, an increase of 44 percent compared with a year ago, reflecting growth in its television networks and production of TV shows.
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