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Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 12:47 PM Vanguard fund managers will be paying close attention to today's earnings report due out from News Corp. (NWS -0.3%) with the disclosure that it holds a 5.03% stake in the company as part of the $1.6T in funds it invests for customers. Comment! [Consumer]
Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 8:57 AM All but one of ~60 civil phone-hacking cases brought against News Corp. (NWSA) before an October court deadline won't proceed to trial because the company's U.K. tabloid newspaper unit has settled almost all of them. News Corp. has agreed to pay out ~$7.9M to resolve claims by hacking victims. Comment! [Consumer]
Monday, February 6, 2012, 6:17 PM Disney (DIS) is in talks with Univision to create an English-language cable news channel that would launch before the November elections. Such a move would put Disney in direct competition with Time Warner (TWX), News Corp. (NWS, NWSA), and Comcast's (CMCSA) NBC unit in the intensely competitive cable news market. Comment! [Consumer]
Monday, January 30, 2012, 9:40 AM News Corp. (NWS, NWSA) is reportedly "in serious talks" to hire former Bloomberg CEO Lex Fenwick to run its Dow Jones unit (publisher of the WSJ). Former Dow Jones chief Les Hinton stepped down in July on account of News Corp.'s U.K. phone hacking scandal. Comment! [Consumer]
Monday, January 30, 2012, 6:32 AM Donald Yacktman, manager of the market-beating Yacktman Fund, sees good relative value in high-grade companies with predictable cash flows. Newscorp (NWS), Microsoft (MSFT) and Proctor & Gamble (PG) are among his favorites. (video) (submitted by Devon Shire) Comment! [Quick Ideas]
Monday, January 23, 2012, 2:58 AM News Corp. (NWS) may bid for Turkish media assets ATV and Sabah, sources say. Calik Holdings, which owns ATV and Sabah, has extended the deadline for preliminary bids until next week. The deal could bring in between $700M and $1B, or possibly higher if deep-pocketed bidders like News Corp. are involved in the sale. Comment! [Global & FX, M&A]
Monday, January 16, 2012, 4:27 AM Hulu (co-owned by DIS, CMCSA, NWS) is pushing into original programming, hoping to steal more customers from Netflix (NFLX) with the debut of its first scripted show on Feb. 14. The company plans to raise more money to expand the venture, saying raising capital won't be a problem for the "very healthy business." 3 Comments [Consumer]
Thursday, January 12, 2012, 5:19 PM Hulu CEO Jason Kilar takes to the site's blog to report revenues up 60% in 2011 to $420M. Hulu Plus now has 1.5M subscribers and he expects paying customers to account for more than half of the firm's overall business by later this year. By including advertising as part of the revenue stream, Kilar believes Hulu will eventually be able to pay 50% more to content providers than other online subscription services. Comment! [Tech]
Monday, January 9, 2012, 5:25 PM A deal between Google (GOOG) and cable operator Cox to add the latter's unsold ad inventory into a national pool sold by Google increases the reach of Google's TV ad network to 42M households. Jim Edwards thinks Google's TV ad efforts have the potential to disrupt the industry's inefficient, cartel-like structure, which serves to artificially inflate the ad rates charged by major TV networks. 1 Comment [Tech, Consumer]
Monday, January 9, 2012, 4:14 PM In what could be a sign of things to come, Fox (NWS, NWSA) is trying its hand at a unique content-development strategy that links the online and broadcast video realms. Fox will develop at least 50 pieces of animated content per year for streaming on its sites, and will promote the most successful series' to a block of shows airing on its TV network on Saturday nights. 2 Comments [Tech, Consumer]
Friday, December 23, 2011, 9:02 AM If Popular Science's iPad subscription trends are any sign, the introduction of Apple's (AAPL) Newsstand feature is proving a boon for publishers: subscriptions spiked soon after Newsstand was rolled out, and have continued growing at an elevated pace since then. The New York Times (NYT), News Corp. (NWS, NWSA), and many others are banking on tablet subscriptions to offset declining print sales. Comment! [Tech, Consumer]
Friday, December 23, 2011, 5:52 AM The FCC wants to ease the limits on the ability of firms to own a newspaper and a TV or radio station in the same local markets. Commissioner Robert McDowell says the the rule is anachronistic given that people increasingly get news on the Internet. The change could benefit the likes of News Corp. (NWS) and Tribune Co. 2 Comments
Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 10:01 AM James Murdoch is re-elected as Chairman of U.K. satellite provider BSkyB (BSYBY.PK), although over a third of independent shareholders withhold their support for him. Comment!
Thursday, November 10, 2011, 9:29 AM News Corp.'s (NWS) James Murdoch partially retreats from testimony he gave in July, acknowledging he was made aware in 2008 of a key email containing hacked voice mails. Murdoch denies that he had been misleading in his testimony, but says other former News Corp. employees had misled the committee in their own appearances. Comment! [Consumer]
Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 11:22 AM News Corp. (NWS -2.2%) announces a major reorganization of senior management at its Australian unit, with longtime chairman and CEO John Hartigan stepping down without explanation. Hartigan's defense of the company in the wake of the U.K. phone hacking scandal may not have been enough to appease Australian lawmakers. 1 Comment [Consumer]
Wednesday, November 2, 2011, 4:14 PM News Corp. (NWS): FQ1 EPS of $0.32 beats by $0.03. Revenue of $7.96B (+7% Y/Y) beats by $300M. Results exclude some pretax charges, including some related to restructuring the U.K. newspaper business, of about $0.04/share. After hours: NWS +1.7%, NWSA +1.8%. (PR) Comment! [Earnings]