All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Media

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...

Since the advent of the Apple IPod, the world of music has changed dramatically and Apple has take market share and today has virtually no competition. Nokia’s bold move in the cell phone music market will definitely rock the market but may not be enough to bring Apple down. I would not go so far to...

Nokia’s move represents a paradigm shift in the mobile music market, and potentially in the overall market. This may represent the beginning of the end for pay services such as Apple’s iTunes, and could be an entirely new way of acquiring music. Good-bye, CDs?

Great idea and about time. News and entertainment can no longer be found on paper, broadcast television, and broadcast radio. With the advent of broadband wireline and wireless services, you and I can get entertainment and news from just about any source. No matter what you may think about the various...

Radio can no longer afford to serve 2 masters- Wall Street investors and its core audience.

All newspapers need to recognize and respond to the changing information needs of their geographic and demographic constituencies. If the Merc's transparent reinvention process succeeds, other newspapers will want to emulate it -- fast.

I love the idea of Second Life. I always thought it was creative. There are real or should I say virtual businesses in Second Life that charge you for products and services while charging you real money in the real world for those virtual products and services. Ingenious. It almost reminds me of a...

The online world Second Life (SL) and the similar World of Warcraft both seem to indicate that the Internet is no longer just for websites. Even Google is rumored to be working on its own online world. So are these just other ways of showing more online ads or is this something new?

- Real world businesses can be in virtual worlds merely for appearing virtually cool - Some businesses can make small incremental revenues quickly in the real world by leveraging "services" delivered in the virtual world - News media are ideally positioned to leverage virtual world presences for real...

Verizon’s FiOS price increase and AT&T’s EchoStar bid imply that Verizon might need to acquire DirecTV for the following reasons: 1) Margin on basic video, 2) Low penetration, 3) High capex.