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Cable Satellite Providers May Clone Aereo
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 2:11pm | 585Read More...The face of broadcast television, at least the part that makes money from cable and satellite providers, may be about to change. Bloomberg reported that DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV), Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) and Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR), are looking into capturing broadcast-TV signals...
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Barnes & Noble Resolves Dispute with Simon & Schuster
Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - 1:56pm | 499Read More...After an eight-month battle, CBS (NYSE: CBS) owned Simon & Schuster and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) have called a truce. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the two companies issued a joint statement announcing that they had “resolved their outstanding business issues.” Those...
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Time Warner Brings Out New Weapon In Dispute With CBS (TWC, CBS)
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - 12:15pm | 588Read More...In another all-too-common television programming contract dispute – this time between CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Time Warner Cable(NYSE: TWC) – a new player has emerged, according to The New York Times. It’s Aereo, the upstart startup that figured out a way to bypass the retransmission fees companies...
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Fox to Take on DISH Kangaroo in Court
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 - 3:46pm | 579Read More...DISH Network (NASDAQ: DISH) wants you to be free to skip past its commercials for AutoHop – a DISH feature that lets you skip past commercials. News Corp’s (NASDAQ: NWSA) Fox Broadcasting Co. wants to force you to watch AutoHop ads, but doesn’t want you to use the feature. If that’s not irony...
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Deutsche Bank Reiterates Buy Rating On CBS In Advance Of 1Q11 Numbers
Friday, April 8, 2011 - 9:39am | 118Read More...Deutsche Bank, previewing CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) 1Q11 expectations, has reaffirmed its Buy rating and maintains its PT at $28. In the report, Deutsche Bank has also raised its estimates for CBS, saying, “We are raising 1Q11E by $0.02 to $0.20, 2011E by $0.05 to $1.59 and 2012E by $0.05 to $2.07....
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UPDATE: Morgan Stanley Raises PT on CBS Corp. to $28 (CBS)
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 8:09am | 105Read More...Morgan Stanley is out with its report today on CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS), raising its PT from $27 to $28. In a note to clients, Morgan Stanley writes, "Ratings strength at the CBS network, growing retransmission fees and key cost initiatives should lead to upside to consensus EPS over the next several...
