All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Media

The world will eventually move to digital cinema exhibition. It is a matter of when not if and how long it will take. At issue from the start of the transition has been who is going to pay. The exhibitors do not want to spend a lot of money just to save the distributors/studios their print costs. As...

Apple's iTunes has now become the third largest retailer of music in the US, behind Wal-Mart and Best Buy with just under 10% of the market share.

The  Dow Jones  sale  to  News Corp  seems  to  be moving. Other  bidders  have  withdrawn  and  the  Dow  Jones  board  has  now  taken  charge.  In  this  analysis  I  take ...

Alternative content is a great concept for idle capacity in the nation’s movie theaters and is enabled due to the transition to digital cinema. It will be a while before this concept is proven or disproven. The reasons are simple: there has not been much alternative content and the theaters, used to...

People don't watch commercials.  We've been hearing it, living it perhaps, for years.  This industry is one of the greatest house of cards ever built. And what do networks do in order to save a multi-billion dollar industry built on continually rising CPMs, shrinking market share,...

A coalition of music performers under the umbrella of musicFirst is seeking a royalty from the radio industry for playing their music. It's another example of the recording industry--and in this case the performers--struggling to find revenues in a new digital environment.

IHS' acquisition of Jane's Information Group is a bold play by IHS to further diversify it's revenue base.  Can IHS provide the cost and revenue synergies needed to make this an accretive deal, or will the "low single digit" growth of Jane's and lack of redundancy in operations doom this relationship....

Beyond DVR ratings, the broadcast networks are recognizing that the Internet is the new window for revenue.

Blockbuster has announced that it will offer all new high definition DVDs in the Blu Ray format on an exclusive basis. Whether or not this is a blockbuster decision by Blockbuster as it relates to the Sony led format remains to be seen. And this will not necessarily spell the doom of the Toshiba led...

Pearson has emerged as a potential rival to News Corp; GE may get involved to help CNBC--and stop Murdoch gaining ready-made content for the Fox Business Channel