Media Firms' Down Years Add Grist to Proxy Bids
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The New York Times Co. and Richmond's Media General reported disappointing fourth-quarter and full-year 2007 earnings yesterday, exacerbating conditions that have brewed shareholder revolts at both companies.
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About a dozen brokerage firms are suspected of failing to secure the best available price for stocks they were trading for their customers.
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Let's face it. Private equity firms hogged the deal-making spotlight in 2007, first with their high-flying buyouts and then with their frantic efforts to salvage them. But corporate acquirers, otherwise known as strategics, weren't exactly on vacation. Just ask Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corporation pulled off an audacious takeover of Dow Jones that many said was [...].
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Media companies, many of which were badly burned by Internet investments before, are aggressively bidding for some sites with growing online ad business.
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By Dolbeck, Andrew  The media business is big business. The industry's high potential profits draw investors while high levels of competition drive dealmaking and consolidation.
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Despite the high short interest, these companies may be the ones to watch.
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Media General Inc said on Monday it  may sell five television stations to reduce debt and bolster  its balance sheet as the publisher and broadcaster deals with  an advertising slump in its newspaper business.
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In a process that could last a year or more, several organizations said they will press regulators to place conditions on the telecommunications mergers to help ensure robust Internet competition.
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The move by the Bush administration set back media companies hoping to own both TV stations and newspapers in the same markets.
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Shares of radio station operators sank in Friday trading, saddled by a report raising concerns that future growth could be limited as advertising demand wanes amid fierce competition from personal media players and satellite radio.
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The number of companies applying to be wound up has fallen, but experts predict the figures to rise.
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Many European groups that staged high-profile share listings on Wall Street in the 1990s are now slipping out the back door, giving up a fleeting status that turned out to be expensive and restrictive.
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Rupert Murdoch is normally courteous to his shareholders, but they were reminded of their irrelevance at yesterday&#39;s News Corp annual meeting: proxy votes had ensured 92% support for the move to the US state of Delaware.
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Many marketers assume that an external media blitz requires an increase in search bids or budgets. But can lowering your bids actually be a better plan?
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Business & money: Cable company says it has received a takeover bid and is considering potential sale.
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Dow Jones & Co. Inc.  is looking at opportunities to acquire companies for its consumer media group, but few fit its criteria now as valuations are too high, senior executives said on Wednesday.
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A media executive who helped purchase  the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News last  year could be interested in joining a group to acquire Dow  Jones & Co., the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.