Merrill's Cohen sees media consolidation
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The media sector will be dominated by a handful of companies that produce or distribute entertainment, despite a proliferation of new technologies and companies vying to deliver programming to homes and handheld devices, a leading media analyst said on Monday.
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The New York Times Co. NYT.N on   Thursday forecast a sharp fall in third-quarter earnings,   joining a growing group of media companies suffering from a   summer slump in advertising.
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By Dolbeck, Andrew  The media sector has been seeing a fair amount of merger and acquisitions activity lately. Traditional print and broadcast media firms, struggling to compete with new online and mobile media outlets, have been targeted by private equity buyers.
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The Wall Street Journal is moving to a smaller width and making other design changes in an effort to save money, draw in new readers, and make the paper available in more places.
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It has finally come, though the timing might be awkward: Yahoo announced late Tuesday night a sweeping corporate reorganization, one effect of which will be the unceremonious dumping of its once ambitious Media Group project, and the former head of ABC Television along with it.
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Citigroup Inc.  and Merrill Lynch  & Co Inc.  are in discussions to receive more capital  from investors, primarily foreign governments, The Wall Street  Journal reported on Thursday.
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The NASD and NYSE are to consolidate regulatory functions.
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Maurice Greenberg, the former head of  insurer American International Group Inc.  is interested  in launching a takeover for all of New York Times Co. ,  CNBC television reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.
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Wall Street got more hints that Altria Group Inc., owner of the Philip Morris cigarette companies, may be closer to splitting its domestic and international divisions.
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The stations are all profitable, the company said, but it wants to focus on its newspapers and digital properties.
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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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There's plenty going on at the media giant, and not all of it is welcome.
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Merrill Lynch is expected to report today that it will add about $2.5 billion more to the $5 billion in write-downs it has already announced, a person briefed on the plan said.
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Merrill Lynch & Co Inc.  may look to sell its 20 percent stake in Bloomberg LP to raise capital after writing down $8.4 billion of assets last quarter, some investors have said.
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Chicago-based publisher Hollinger International Inc. (HLR.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is considering the sale or merger of assets at its new media arm, a British newspaper said on Monday.
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'Vertical integration' and cross-promotion in the TV landscape is prompting calls to limit media consolidation.
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The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is proposing a plan that would wrap up by the end of the year the long-running debate over how many media properties a company should be allowed to own in a single market.