AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Forbes
Hollywood is once again on the brink of war. This time the big movie studios and TV networks are skirmishing with their actors, whose union contracts expire next month. Unless both sides can agree on how to split future Internet revenues, the industry faces the terrifying prospect of its second prolonged talent strike of the [...]

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Variety
Studio brass taking broad way to distribution
Media titans used to obsess about piracy. Nowadays, they are more likely to fixate on ubiquity.
News Corp. prexy-chief operating officer Peter Chernin repeatedly invoked the need to distribute content as widely as possible during Wednesday afternoon’s Milken Institute panel on the consequences of the digital revolution. Fellow panelists [...]

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Yahoo Plays the Field with News Corp. - BusinessWeek
The two companies are mulling a deal that would involve mixing their Internet properties, and could spur a new offer from Microsoft
News Corp. may be trying to cut in on the mating dance between Microsoft and Yahoo!, but it may only succeed in tightening the software maker’s [...]

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The “Disney Difference” Does It Again - Seeking Alpha
For the second time in as many days, a major global media company released results which suggested little adverse, or material, impact from either the writers’ strike or a feared slow down in advertising spending related to the economy.
As was the case with News Corp. (NWS), Disney’s [...]

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More On Fox Digital Media: Buying Beliefnet, Expanding Mission - paidContent.org
As we explained last night, Fox Digital Media is expanding its role within News Corp., (NYSE: NWS) starting publicly with the acquisition of Beliefnet completed Tuesday morning. FDM, led by Dan Fawcett, now becomes, in essence, an owner and operator, of sites it develops and [...]

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Nielsen to Be Video Cop - The Wall Street Journal
For years, media and technology companies have been ensnarled in a battle over online piracy.
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Digital media won’t be a sideshow in the future - The Los Angeles Times
Downloading and other Internet-based modes are likely to account for a much larger share of the industry’s revenue.
Today’s puny sales of movie and TV downloads makes one wonder: Why are striking members of the Writers Guild of America so intent on getting [...]

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Should MSFT Take Cue from News Corp. — WatchMojo.com
When Rupert Murdoch stunned Wall Street with a $5B offer for Dow Jones, he ensured that
- no one would get close to bidding for the venerable publisher of Wall Street Journal and Barron’s, and owner of Marketwatch.com
- and DJ’s board and shareholders would not be able to [...]

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