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John C. Malone
formed joint partnerships to build a combined cable telephone system in Britain. Under Malone’s leadership, TCI became the #2 cable television operation in the United States...
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Communications
Frank Batten
a few years, it soon became a hallmark of cable television and grew in size and market reach as cable technology expanded nationally and internationally.
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Publishing & Print Media
Christine A. Hefner
The daughter of Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner, Christine was responsible for the elimination of the company’s massive debt and the dramatic restructuring of the organization. Hefner eliminated a number of money losing ventures and invested heavily in View Details
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Publishing & Print Media
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Change Channel
background as an example of the diversity of the gay experience in America. “Advertisers and cable servers seem to understand that this is one of the last great underserved market segments,” Graden noted. “If you’re gay or lesbian, you...
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Arts, Entertainment
Samuel I. Newhouse
At the age of 26 with $600 borrowed from his relatives, Newhouse bought his first local newspaper, the Staten Island Advance. Over the next five decades, Newhouse would amass a communications giant including a collection of 22 local newspapers, 6 View Details
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Publishing & Print Media
Hugh M. Hefner
doing, he brought a sense of respectability to an otherwise disrespected industry. By the seventies, circulation of Playboy peaked at 7 million, and Hefner had added night clubs, a cable television channel,...
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Robert L. Johnson
Johnson created the first and only cable television station with programming for and about black Americans. Though he struggled to gain a subscriber base in the early eighties, Johnson persevered and built a...
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Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Michael D. Eisner
Eisner has also upgraded and expanded Disney’s theme parks and hotels, and has added hundreds of retail Disney Stores. In 1995, Eisner acquired the ABC Television Network and ESPN, the cable sports network....
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Entertainment & Broadcast Media
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Where can I find entertainment & media industry/market analysis, company data and news? OVERVIEWS AND ANALYSIS IBISWorld
Research reports on a wide range of industries, including Cable Networks, Television Production, and... View Details
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New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning - HBS Fund Investors Society 2020 Report
Educational Innovation New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning When HBS opened its first virtual classroom in 2014, the School had just started to experiment with online education. Located at Boston’s public television station...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Stealth Mogul
purchased and revived Wired magazine before selling it at a sizable profit to CondŽ Nast. Last year, Providence led a consortium that bought the largest cable television company in Europe. A native of...
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Gavriel Goidel
I think my true calling is to be a stay-at-home dad. After all, the times I was unemployed were also my happiest. Growing up in Bnei Brak, an ultra-orthodox Jewish town in Israel, I never saw a woman wearing pants, and none of my friends had cellphones or View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
television brings people together and lets advertisers build giant brands and promote broad cultural trends, the Web segments the audience into small pockets of interest. Mass marketers have a whole new game to learn if they aspire to...
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
world through television and print publications, as they had for decades. There was, however, one big media game changer: the Fox News Channel (FNC). Founded in 1996 by Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch, FNC was an unusual newcomer...
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- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil some decades ago, I saw how the arrival of electricity — and a television mounted in the public square — changed life in my rural village. The outside world became visible. Other peoples and places were...
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Brian T. Bedol
While there, among many assignments, he took over the marketing and promotion of the Six Flags Theme parks and drove revenues and attendance to an all-time high. But Bedol had long harbored an urge to start his own business and create a classic sports View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
companies strengthening themselves across several media activities. Thus Disney, which began as an entertainment provider before adding network and cable television companies, now owns a 43 percent stake in...
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
“Traditional television can be a friction-filled experience,” he says. “Often you have to go to a certain room of the house at a certain time and find the right channel for your show—is it 723 or 694 on the View Details
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Julia Hanna;
HBO;
Netflix;
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Vimeo;
YouTube;
Telecommunications;
Information;
Arts, Entertainment
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Jason A. Kilar
network and cable TV. But to date, there hasn’t been a clear path for most of these talented creators to build sustainable, enduring businesses on the basis of their video storytelling alone. Vessel provides early access to the web’s best...
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HBX Launched - Annual Report 2014
company teams. CORe also will be a requirement for incoming HBS MBA students beginning in summer 2015. HBX Live Powering the HBX Classroom 70 cameras 6 million LED pixels on video wall 10 software platforms 10 virtual networks 7 servers 20 miles of View Details