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Execs at cable MSOs and satellite operators are looking over their shoulders at a worrisome trend: A small but growing number of subscribers are cutting their expensive links to multichannel [...]

During the recent economic meltdown, a successful 45-year-old director with a mid-seven-figure portfolio-60% of which was in stocks saw his holdings drop in value by about 20%. Against the advice [...]

Most cablers have long complained about bundling, whereby owners of multiple networks give them better prices on popular nets only if they also carry the unwatched dogs. So why did [...]

How many VPs does it take to screw in a light bulb? In network broadcasting, more than you might think. For 30 years, Johnny Carson skewered NBC for the number [...]

Movie theater admissions were up in 2012, but the long-term trend remains down. Even so, says Moody's Investors Service, exhibitors are getting more money from each patron. And, says the [...]

Last year was a good one at the U.S. box office, and the mutual fund industry noticed. Funds, which had been shedding shares of parent companies of the Big Six [...]

Content owners should be pleased with the results of a study by market research firm NPD Group, which shows that over-the-top video was the most common broadband activity on an [...]

The year just ended was a good one for stocks, and an even better one for showbiz equities. Standard & Poor's Composite 1500 index, a measure of large-, mid- and [...]

Consumers spent cautiously in the recent holiday shopping season. And that was evident at an auction sale of vintage movie posters conducted a week before Christmas at Swann Galleries in [...]

American and British Internet-delivered TV users may become more involved in the funding of their favorite content, according to a study by management consulting firm Accenture. More than a third [...]

Last year, hotel and casino operator Wynn Resorts gave its shareholders a $5-a-share extra dividend, payable just before Christmas. This year, the company was earlier and more generous. Two days [...]

As just about everyone in the business knows, television is a great way to make a fortune, but a hell of a way to make a living. Consider these numbers [...]

Global over-the-top TV--broadband delivery of audio and video untethered to multichannel video program distributors--will surge over the next five years, according to a report from U.K.-based Digital TV Research. Worldwide [...]

Almost 620 million subscribers of cablers and telcos will have Internet broadband service at the end of this year, up 7.3% from 2011, according to ABI Research. That equals more [...]

No matter who the victor is on Election Day, the biggest winners are likely to be owners of broadcast TV stations, particularly those in battleground states. According to Moody's Investor [...]

Media and entertainment companies had the greatest number of 'ratings actions' (bond-rating speak for upgrades and downgrades of credit ratings) in the third quarter, according to Standard & Poor's Global [...]

Comcast investors have to be pleased with the stock's performance over the first three quarters of 2012. According to figures compiled by S&P Dow Jones Indices, the company's Class A [...]

Gains in TV services combined with cost-cutting measures will keep landline phone company revenues stable despite the loss of traditional voice-service customers. That's the conclusion of a recent report from [...]

In 1958, there were more than 4,000 drive-in theaters in the U.S. Today, only 368 remain, according to figures complied by the United Drive-in Theater Owners Assn. Some of the [...]

If television execs are worried that their audience is being lost to social media, a recent survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics should reassure them. According to the BLS, [...]

By 2015, global revenues of direct broadcast satellite companies will exceed those of cablers, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The U.K.-based forecaster says that DTH (direct-to-home)--will take [...]

Many companies have initiated or increased dividends since the 15% corporate tax rate became law in 2003. At the end of 2002, 351 stocks in the S&P 500 paid dividends. [...]

People who want to invest in the market but don't want to choose individual stocks often turn to funds. There are thousands of portfolios and lots of options to pick [...]

If July is any indication, the whole is worth less than the sum of its parts, at least when it comes to Cablevision Systems and AMC Networks. System operator Cablevision [...]

In the first six months of 2012, the BrandIndex Buzz score for MTV was the most improved among U.S. broadcast and cable networks. That may be small consolation to Viacom [...]

Despite a weak job market, local TV news operations added 1,131 workers last year, according to an annual survey conducted by the Radio Television Digital News Assn. and Hofstra U. [...]

Wanna lend some money to media and entertainment companies? Quite a few of them, especially those with weak credit ratings, will be looking to refinance debt over the next few [...]