By Robert Marich -- Broadcasting & Cable, 7/13/2008 8:00:00 PM
General Electric last week reported that adjusted second-quarter earnings were flat at 54 cents per share, with its NBC Universal unit making modest gains.
NBCU segment profit crept up 1% to $909 million for the three months ended June 30. NBCU revenue advanced 7% to $3.882 billion. For the six months, NBCU segment profit was up 2% to $1.621 billion and up 5% on a revenue basis to $7.446 billion.
In a conference call with Wall St. analysts, GE brass said just-concluded upfront-advertising sales for its broadcast and cable networks rose to $4.3 billion for the 2008-2009 season, up from $4 billion last year. In upfront, NBC ad sales were up just 2% while cable jumped 25%.
Akamai provides market-leading managed services for powering rich media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Having pioneered the content delivery market one decade ago, Akamai's services have been adopted by the world's most...
more
A leader in online technology, content & revenue solutions, WorldNow is the only company to provide comprehensive technology platforms & strategic advertising services, enabling media companies to expand to the digital realm with innovative Web...
more
Telestream products are used by the world's leading media and entertainment companies and corporations for transcoding and workflow automation. Telestream helps customers transform their media for multiplatform distribution to web, mobile, DVD...
more
ESPN, Inc. is the world's leading multinational, multimedia sports entertainment company featuring a portfolio of over 50 multimedia sports assets. The company is comprised of six domestic television networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic, ESPNEWS...
more
In this week's edition of B&C Tech Talk, senior editor Glen Dickson talks about Scripps Television becoming the latest station group to consolidate its graphics operations with Chyron's Internet-based Axis system