Sentences with phrase «as media conglomerate»

The walkouts drew support from companies such as media conglomerate Viacom, which paused programming on MTV, BET, Nickelodeon and its other networks for 17 minutes during the walkouts.

Nominees include the above mentioned surprising slump in indie sales, the not surprising shrinking revenues at the major publishing houses, the also not surprising continued self immolation of Barnes & Noble, and my winner... The impressive (and frightening) maturation of Amazon as a media conglomerate.

What's our place at the table as a media conglomerate?

Not exact matches

Currently headquartered in New York City, it is the 4th largest media conglomerate as of 2017.

On Wednesday, after Leslie Moonves took over as chairman of CBS (CBS)-- the other media conglomerate that Sumner Redstone controls — there was speculation that Dauman might not be named chairman of Viacom, in part because Shari Redstone made her opposition to him abundantly clear.

«The reality is that film doesn't matter nearly as much to the stocks of media conglomerates as it previously had,» wrote Barclays Capital analysts Anthony DiClemente and George Hawkey in a report earlier this year.

Softbank, the massive Japanese conglomerate, started as a software distributor in the 1980s, grew into a telecom giant and now spans telecommunications, e-commerce, finance, technology services, semiconductor design, media and marketing, robotics and even baseball.

What started as a modest animation studio has also morphed into a major media conglomerate that includes the ABC and ESPN family of networks.

Three decades later, when Redstone stepped down as chairman of Viacom, at the age of 92, embroiled in a public family melodrama and sordid lawsuit over his mental capacity, Dauman, then the C.E.O. of the media conglomerate, was tapped to replace him as executive chairman.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

Times Internet Ltd (TIL) is the digital business arm of media conglomerate Bennett, Coleman and Company Ltd (BCCL) that runs several market - leading newspapers such as The Times of India and The Economic Times as well as TV news channels.

Pressure from platforms has forced big media conglomerates to make massive bets, such as Disney's deal with 21st Century Fox.

As a joint venture between three massive media conglomerates, its leadership hasn't always been able to determine its own future.

Viacom Inc., a media conglomerate based in New York, owns the Paramount Pictures movie studio and pay TV channels such as MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and BET.

Walt Disney Co., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a global diversified media and entertainment conglomerate.

Vivendi Chairman Vincent Bolloré said on April 19 that he was about to ask the company's supervisory board to appoint his son Yannick as the new chairman of the French media conglomerate.

That includes YouTube networks such as Maker Studios and digital media startups such as BuzzFeed, as well as newspapers (The New York Times), magazines (Condé Nast and Fortune publisher Time Inc.), and classic media conglomerates (Time Warner and News Corp.).

But given the conglomerate control of our mass media and the difficulties of mobilizing our large and diverse population, such an opting for popular democracy, as we remember it from our past, seems unlikely.

Last week, the Daily News reported that Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino earned $ 30,000 consulting for a media conglomerate, in addition to his $ 160,000 a year salary as Westchester County executive.

The forum was organized by media conglomerate, Media General, parent company of TV3, 3 FM, Onua FM, Connect FM, Akoma FM, 3news.com and APL, as part of activities marking International Press Freedommedia conglomerate, Media General, parent company of TV3, 3 FM, Onua FM, Connect FM, Akoma FM, 3news.com and APL, as part of activities marking International Press FreedomMedia General, parent company of TV3, 3 FM, Onua FM, Connect FM, Akoma FM, 3news.com and APL, as part of activities marking International Press Freedom Day.

After stepping down from the chancellorship, Mr. Klein, 64, took a job with the News Corporation, one of the world's largest media conglomerates, as chief executive of the education division and as executive vice president in the office of the company's chairman, Rupert Murdoch.

The online dating space has heated up in the last few years, as the InterActive Corporation, the digital media conglomerate, has systematically acquired and consolidated Internet dating properties.

The media mogul is counting on future revenues from his educational branch to help shore up the finances of his newspaper and publishing division as it is split off later this year from the conglomerate's vast holdings in television and entertainment.

Major funding comes from Letv, a Chinese media conglomerate that Sampson describes as, «the Netflix of China.»

I can speak to actual incidents at more than one media - conglomerate publisher — confidentiality requirements keep me from specifying — and some (not all, and quite probably not «routine») Amazon sales are being treated as «deep discount» in royalty accounting.

Did you notice that book promotion opportunities with smaller media outlets, such as local radio stations (that used to be hosted by local radio personalities), were drying up as smaller media outlets were bought by bigger media outlets, and bigger media outlets were bought by huge conglomerates such as Clear Channel?

At the same time the national reviewers were employees of companies that were either owned by the media conglomerates that owned the publishing imprints or were so dependent on the advertising revenue from those companies that they might as well have been.

However, as subsidiaries of large media conglomerates, the executives who ran the big six had all been given their marching orders about the internet: DRM restrictions would be mandatory on all ebook sales, lest rampant piracy cannibalize their sales of paper books.

Walt Disney Co., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a global diversified media and entertainment conglomerate.

So, as George Monbiot put it in an elegant proposal on Viewsnight recently, kick big money out of politics, dismantle the media conglomerates, and let's have a real discussion about the economy.

The private media is more and more being taken over by big multinational conglomerates with the idea of using it as a mouth piece for there agendas and the public media is getting their budgets slashed and being cut off of their traditional information sources.

I mean, I know this is effectively censorship of anyone that isn't willing or able to make a deal with the telecom companies to have their pages load at the same speed as these media giants» sites... but that doesn't affect me because I believe these conglomerate monopolies have my best interests at heart and definitely aren't just trying to make the most money for their shareholders.

As the sinister aims of rightwing media conglomerates like Sinclair Broadcast Group begin to resonate with the public, an infuriating trend is emerging: people pleading for a liberal billionaire to save us from the conservative billionaires.

Gabriels has become real estate's leading provider of luxury real estate websites while maintaining its long - held leadership as the world leader in providing real estate technology to media companies and conglomerates, with a global footprint that covers 28 countries and 42 states in the U.S.

Gabriels has become real estate's leading provider of luxury real estate websites while maintaining its long - held leadership as the world leader world leader in providing real estate technology to media companies and conglomerates, with a global footprint that covers 28 countries.