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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Arts and Entertainment Industry News, Information & Resource Directory |
Caster Concepts Introduces New Engineering Consulting Service
Caster Concepts announces the launch of RapidType Engineering, an engineering consulting service focused on delivering cost effective, cutting edge, high tech solutions to small to medium sized companies who conventionally would not have the resources or capital to staff a full time engineering team.
WGAW finalizes board candidates
Business News: Results will be announced Sept. 23 -- The Writers Guild of America West has finalized the list of candidates running for eight open seats on its board of directors.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/business/~4/343143124" height="1" width="1"/>
Yahoo logs dip in profits
Business News: Company reports 18% drop in second quarter -- Yahoo may have averted a proxy battle with Carl Icahn, but the Netco still has its work cut out for itself if it is going to turn around its fading fortunes.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/business/~4/343080132" height="1" width="1"/>
Starz to host DNC events
Business News: Suite treats set for politicians at Dem confab -- Here's more evidence that this year's Democratic National Convention is quickly turning into a Sundance for politicos:
Starz, the premium cabler, is hosting the Starz Green Room, offering delegates, VIPs and other attendees "the only place within close proximity of the convention hall where convention attendees can have the choice of unwinding with a movie and refreshments, or sharing in a high-level political conversation with prominent figures from entertainment and government."<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/business/~4/343080133" height="1" width="1"/>
Paramount creates Worldwide Group
Business News: Production co. to feed into Vantage, Pictures -- Paramount Pictures has created the Paramount Worldwide Acquisitions Group, a centralized acquisitions and local productions arm that will feed pics into the pipelines of Paramount Pictures Intl. and Par Vantage.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/business/~4/343080134" height="1" width="1"/>
Paull picked by Sony BMG
Business News: Executive to develop co.'s global digital biz -- Sony BMG has tapped former Fox Entertainment Group exec Michael Paull to develop the music company’s global digital biz.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/business/~4/343026523" height="1" width="1"/>
Spain's TV ad revenue down 4.1%
Business News: Terrestrial earnings fall in first half of the year -- Confirming the symptoms of economic recession, Spain's terrestrial TV advertising went down 4.1% in the first six months of the year to 1.71 billion euros ($2.72 billion).<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/business/~4/343026525" height="1" width="1"/>
Morningstar leaves CW for MLB
Business News: Exec takes VP post at baseball network -- The CW's Bill Morningstar is ankling the Green net for even greener pastures: the Major League Baseball network.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/business/~4/342932635" height="1" width="1"/>
BSkyB, Universal team for tunes
Business News: Pay TV operator launching U.K. music service -- British pay TV operator BSkyB is launching a U.K. music service offering subscriptions and downloads, beginning with Universal Music's catalog.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/business/~4/342957148" height="1" width="1"/>
Canadian writers vote to extend pact
Business News: Org continues agreement for 12 months -- Canuck screenwriters are extending their collective agreement with the Canadian Film & Television Producers Assn. and its Quebec equivalent for 12 months.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/business/~4/342901184" height="1" width="1"/>
BBC bans sponsors
Business News: Broadcaster stiffens policy after breach -- The BBC will ban commercial sponsorship for its on-air events after a report found it breached editorial guidelines over a "Sports Personality of the Year" deal with Robinson's drinks brand Britvic.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/business/~4/342888786" height="1" width="1"/>
Hollywood loves to hate big business
Business News: Beating up the big, bad media -- Conservatives have long bemoaned the way big business is depicted in movies and television, seeing conspiracies of Hollywood leftists behind every palm tree. The charges have always felt overblown, ignoring that evil tycoons owe more to the vanquishing of Bond-era Cold War villainy than intelligent design.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/business/~4/342814548" height="1" width="1"/>
Modern Times Group sales up 17%
Business News: Earnings rise to $266 million in second quarter -- Media giant Modern Times Group upped net sales in the second quarter by 17% to $553 million, compared with $473 million last year.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/business/~4/342658042" height="1" width="1"/>
Savage angers parents of autistic kids
Business News: Shock jock under fire for statements -- Radio talk show host Michael Savage, who described 99 percent of children with autism as brats, said Monday he was trying to "boldly awaken" parents to his view that many people are being wrongly diagnosed.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/business/~4/342643616" height="1" width="1"/>
Valedo buys Broadcast Text Intl.
Business News: ProSiebenSat.1 divests non-core businesses -- German media giant ProSiebenSat.1 has sold subtitling and dubbing company Broadcast Text Intl. to Swedish venture capital outfit Valedo for an undisclosed sum.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/business/~4/342561565" height="1" width="1"/>
Apple rides iPods, phones
Business News: Wall Street questions Jobs' role -- Macintosh and iPod sales helped boost Apple's fiscal third-quarter earnings 31%, beating Wall Street's expectations Monday, but investors pummeled the stock after Apple issued soft guidance for the current quarter.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/business/~4/342201583" height="1" width="1"/>
Carradine seeking SAG board spot
Business News: Actor part of Membership First majority -- Backing SAG's current hardline stance against the congloms, Keith Carradine will run for the guild's national board. He's the first of several high-profile thesps expected to enter the upcoming election. Ballots go out in late August.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/business/~4/342155292" height="1" width="1"/>
Las Vegans who make the show go on
Business News: Where do the directors go when the auds exit? -- A graduate of Las Vegas High and its former head cheerleader, Toni Basil remembers the Strip when it was just "grains of sand and six hotels." A big fan of the "new" Las Vegas, "It's really quite fabulous," she says. Basil's back in town to dance, direct and choreograph Bette Midler's star vehicle, "The Showgirl Must Go On."<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/business/~4/342144145" height="1" width="1"/>
Concierges, club pros make it happen
Business News: These Vegas insiders provide all the answers -- Which restaurant has the best Cherries Jubilee? I want a helicopter ride, now. Can you get me tickets to a show? And where's the best fish in Las Vegas?* Answers to all of the above: no problem for the Four Seasons' concierge, Lisa Carson.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/business/~4/342123048" height="1" width="1"/>
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