GLG News by Movie Distribution Experts

Lots of us considered IMAX down and out in recent years as the institutional theater market (museums, etc.) began to dry up and as IMAX and others failed to provide sufficient appropriate content to the commercial theater circuits to which the Company was selling systems. Now with 3D being one of the...

The Senate Commerce Committee unanimously passed a bill to limit any further media consolidation efforts until a 90-day period for public comment could be completed.  In effect, if this gets passed on the Senate floor it could kill any efforts to allow newspaper-broadcasting combinations in the...

Advertising projections for 2008 for the United States show small, marginal increases in media sectors, with the Internet capturing the largest increase, estimated at 20%.  Traditional media (television, radio and newspapers) fare much worse with single digit to no growth.

AT&T is pursuing an acquisition of EchoStar, and hopes to cut a deal before the end of the year. 

The future of radio as an ad medium is discussed in this article, along with implications of digital media habits among consumers.

Even though DivX has a very strong position in video technology, it has been challenged by competitors in the area of webpage embedded video, particularly by Flash of Adobe. The recent acquisition of MainConcept by DivX will greatly strengthen DivX's position, and may potentially change...

FCC Chair Kevin Martin backs off of most recent efforts to allow more media consolidation by offering a new proposal:  allow newspaper-TV combinations but only in the top 20 markets if certain criteria are met.

Spanish Language audiences prefer their own language when watching movies and television. Panama, the crossroads of the Americas, is building a state of the art digital film studio to compete with Hollywood productions. If current trends continue more Americans will be watching Spanish language films...

Nielsen reports that Spanish language media advertising is up 2.7% in 2007, with most of the gain attributed to cable television advertising.

Nielsen Media Research issued the first "C3" data on network television programs which reflects viewing during the actual broadcast, and up to three days later via a digital video recorder (DVR).  What are the implications of this new system?