- NBCUniversal to Lay Off 100 Employees [Wall Street Journal]
- Cord-Cutting: Cable’s Offer You Can’t Refuse [Wall Street Journal] “When Georgia-based medical student Cathy Vu called Comcast Corp. last month to cancel her TV service and keep just Internet, she got a shock. Taking the Internet alone would cost her more, not less, a month.”
- Advanced Advertising: Obama Campaign Showed Value of Targeting Viewers [Broadcasting & Cable] “In a panel discussion on Tuesday, [VP of Time Warner Cable Media Joan Hogan] Gillman and Kevin Smith, group vice president at Comcast Spotlight, touted cable, satellite and telco capabilities to target ads to groups by viewer profiles and neighborhoods. Comcast, for example, has divided its 20 million subscribers into about 600 ‘zones,’ Smith said.”
- Comcast and NBCUniversal Named among America’s “Best Places to Work” for LGBT People [Herald Online]
- Eisner gets back into movies with Universal deal [Philly.com] “Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner is getting back in the movie business. The 70-year-old said Tuesday that the media company he founded, The Tornante Company, will finance films that will be distributed by Comcast Corp.’s Universal Pictures.”
- Want to win tickets to every event at the Wells Fargo Center? [Philly.com] “Comcast-Spectacor, the owner of the Flyers and the Wells Fargo Center, on Tuesday announced it would award the winner of “The Big Ticket” sweepstakes two tickets to every event at the Wells Fargo Center in 2013.”
Companies:
Disney / NBCUniversal
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