Time Warner's properties include popular magazines (Time, Fortune, Sports Illustrated and Asiaweek among them), music, film and cable-TV programming, yet the company has failed to build a large audience on the Net.
News Corp. gained 0.9% in Sydney after reporting its fiscal second-quarter profit was up 65% from a year earlier on increased earnings at cable-television networks and film and television studios.
Behind the Candelabra's director Steven Soderbergh provoked a fierce debate when he said he had to take the film to the cable station HBO because Hollywood's studios believed it was "too gay".
Viacom owns Paramount, the film studio, and cable channels like MTV and Nickelodeon.
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News Corp. is a global media company with operations engaged in producing, acquiring, and licensing various operations in film, television, cable network programming, direct broadcast satellite TV, integrated marketing services, newspapers, magazines and books publishing.
Both are on cable and both draw more from independent film than from sitcom history: Louis C.
Even though the release is going to be mainly on-demand, with a shorter-than-usual lead time, getting on several cable companies' schedules simultaneously and encoding the film takes time.
The founder of a company producing features for cable television stations, who is obsessed with film noir -- murder mysteries shot in black and white "with warped gangsters and neurotic heroes and dangerous women, shiny wet streets and big black cars with their headlights on" -- has disappeared.
He expressed little concern about the more ominous threat from on-demand film rental services from the likes of cable giants Comcast and Time Warner, however.
These projections may not bode well for companies like Comcast and Time Warner Cable that compete with Netflix to deliver the latest film rentals to consumers.
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Ironically, Ted Turner, who founded CNN, a cable news network, and avidly pushed consolidation of the film and TV industries, is now one of the loudest protesters.
Oxford grad built media empire with Australian and U.S. tabloids, Fox film studio and broadcast network, conservative-leaning cable outlets Fox News and Fox Business.
"They have the best numbers in film, improving numbers in music and decent numbers in the cable business, " says Mark.
Cable companies are rolling out video-on-demand, and computer-savvy film buffs are using fast connections to stream or download movies--legal or pirated.
With the film industry consumed by animated superheroes and the promise of 3-d fortunes, cable television has shed its ugly stepsister image to become the desired locale for movie stars and screenwriters alike.
At a basic DSL or cable modem speed, resolution is excellent, and the viewer can pause the movie or download a different film.
On May 30, the company's New Line Cinema division is releasing the feature-film version of Sex and the City, following a blockbuster six-year run on its cable outlet, HBO.
This includes distribution of current and library film and television product, formats and non-scripted programming in the pay, free, and basic cable television markets, as well as the domestic syndication of first-run syndicated TV programs, theatrical and TV movie packages.
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