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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Comcast Q1 profit grows 10% to $2.06B, NBCUniversal revenue slips 4% to $6.6B — Comcast Q1 Profit Rises, Co. Will Focus on X1 — Media giant Comcast said net income in its fiscal first quarter grew 10% owing to more consumers buying high-speed Internet and business services …
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Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:
In earnings call, Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts says company is disappointed over failed TWC merger but has moved on — Roberts: Customer Service, Execution Top Priorities — Says Disappointed TWC Terminated, Company Has ‘Moved On’ — Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts …
Tali Arbel / Associated Press:
Comcast now has more Internet subs than TV subs, company exec Neil Smit says in earnings call — COMCAST NOW HAS MORE INTERNET THAN CABLE CUSTOMERS — NEW YORK (AP) — Just before its $45 billion deal with Time Warner Cable collapsed over regulators' fears about a giant cable company's control …
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Periscope Piracy Sets Up Grudge Match: Hollywood vs. Twitter — Dick Costolo's triumphant tweet could come back to haunt him — Forget Mayweather-Pacquiao. There's a more interesting fight brewing between Twitter and Hollywood. — The piracy of Saturday's welterweight boxing championship enabled …
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Christina Warren / Mashable:
How Periscope users experienced the readily-available pirate streams of the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight last night
Alex Stedman / Variety:
Service issues hit Comcast, TWC, DirecTV, and Charter ahead of big boxing match
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Micah Singleton / The Verge:
DOJ looking at Apple as it is pushing record labels to ditch free Spotify streaming ahead of Beats relaunch — Apple pushing music labels to kill free Spotify streaming ahead of Beats relaunch — The Department of Justice is looking closely into Apple's business practices in relation …
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Erin Griffith / Fortune:
How companies like BuzzFeed, Vice, and Tastemade are aggressively expanding into online video, experimenting with the format to attract viewers and advertisers — The (very) big fight for the small screen — A rising class of Internet video companies is challenging the supremacy of broadcast TV …
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Vice TV Network Has Already Sold Three Years' Worth of Ad Time, CEO Says — Vice co-founder and CEO Shane Smith. Credit: Christopher Lane for Ad Age — Vice Media has rung up a series of impressive deals in the past year or so, lining up a $250 million investment from A&E Networks …
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Abid Rahman / Hollywood Reporter:
Vice Media Revenue on Track to Reach Close to $1 Billion This Year
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
NewFronts: Fullscreen Acquires Social Media Studio McBeard — Fullscreen is making the push into social content with the acquisition of digital studio McBeard. — The 100-person, Los Angeles-based company is joining Fullscreen to grow its ability to develop, produce and distribute social content …
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Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Mediaite Exclusive: New NBC President Andy Lack Reevaluating Much of MSNBC Programming — When venerable TV news executive Andy Lack was named the new president of NBC News, it was clear he was given the authority and autonomy from Comcast to clean house. The Today Show was in desperate need of change …
Poynter:
Freelancers often face contract clauses that leave them liable for legal claims — Indemnity clauses leave freelancers open to lawsuits — Forbes contributor Dolia Estevez is on her own. — Two years ago, Estevez identified a former spokesperson for Mexican president Felipe Calderon as one of the …
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Charter and Time Warner Cable execs in friendly talks about merging — Charter Expresses Interest in Friendly Deal Talks With Time Warner Cable — Charter Communications-backer John Malone called Time Warner Cable CEO Rob Marcus in recent days — Top executives close to Charter Communications Inc …
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Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
Two gunmen killed, officer shot outside Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas organized by conservative political personality Pamela Geller — 2 gunmen killed, guard shot outside Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas — Two gunmen were killed and a security guard wounded in an attack outside …
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