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In a potentially historic move, Hollywood actors may soon join screenwriters on the picket line, marking the first two-union strike in the industry in over 60 years, Associated Press reports. Impending Strike The contract between the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Radio and Television...

Broadcasting company shares are trading down Tuesday after Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc (NASDAQ: SBGI) reduced its media revenue forecast for the third quarter. The company blamed political spending ahead of the elections for reducing its outlook. The company is looking for media revenue of about $...

President Barack Obama expressed his concern with protecting an open Internet this week. “I am asking for an explicit ban on paid prioritization,” Obama said in a statement. The news caused broadband providers such as Time Warner Cable Inc (NYSE: TWC) and Comcast Corporation (...

Investors are coming to grips with a series of restructuring announcements from media company Gannett (NYSE: GCI) as they try to value the stock. Analyst Commentary Noble Financial is the first sell side research house to comment on the transformation. "We view the moves favorably, as...

TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) Media Research, along with Albert Fried, recently conducted a 15,000-person survey. The results from that survey showed that, perhaps unsurprisingly, about 91 percent of respondents binge-watch television. Albert Fried released a note on Wednesday, listing the top 10 most...

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) may not be directly affected by Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling, but the streaming video giant could still be hurt by the fall of Aereo. The Supreme Court ruled that Aereo (which allows consumers to stream live TV for a fee) violated the Copyright Act of 1976. Unlike...

It was a huge success, but will they repeat it? Warren Buffett, billionaire investor and Berkshire-Hathaway president, recently called into The Dan Patrick Show to discuss his partnership with Quicken Loans for the "Billion Dollar Bracket" contest and whether or not March Madness college...

"The reason I turned down the radio job? Scared! I was scared." The King of All Media, perhaps the most successful disc jockey in radio history, shied away from the career he loved since he was a child. Speaking on his Sirius Satellite radio show earlier this week, Howard Stern was in a...