In a surprise move, The Weather Channel Companies is swapping out CEOs. David Kenny is replacing Mike Kelly as CEO effective immediately; the Akamai-Digitas vet also will be chairman of the company owned by a consortium of Bain Capital, The Blackstone Group, and NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Universal.

Some more detail appears to be emerging in the lead-up to Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) launching in the UK next year: in the midst of signing a series of key content deals, the streaming service looks like it could also be missing out on some of the most popular local TV…

If CNN wants an incisive big-name interviewer, it should consider hiring Robert Jay QC, who put Piers Morgan through a far tougher interview than Morgan has managed on his primetime show on CNN.

Nearly three short years ago, the buzz word du jour in tech was “realtime”. Real time discovery. Real time search. Real time serendipity. The explosion of interest in social sharing tools like Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed (remember this was early 2009) had people (myself included) saying that “Delayed news will…

Two of the biggest global news brands are gaining a bigger U.S. foothold - but, while one has finally broken in to the TV mainstream, the other is making greater headway online.

Jeff Bewkes capped off a string of strange diatribes in which he has compared Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) to “the Albanian army” and “a hamburger” by concluding that the beleaguered movie rental service is “our friend.” The Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO made the remark this afternoon at an industry gathering…

HBO is cementing its reputation as a trail-blazer with a new batch of hit shows and, more recently, a hugely popular mobile offering. But the company is determined to remain a traditionalist when it comes to its relation with tv distributors.

Virgin Media has finally made live Spotify’s first UK TV app. Virgin Media customers who are Spotify Premium subscribers can access the music service through Virgin’s new TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set-top box.

Dan Colarusso, who has held top editorial posts at the NY Post, Condé Nast’s Portfolio and briefly at Business Insider, is leaving his post as managing editor of Bloomberg Television to join rival Reuters (NYSE: TRI) as the news service’s global head of programming.

Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) siblings HBO and Sports Illustrated magazine are collaborating a on a multi-part documentary series entitled Sport in America: Our Defining Stories, that’s set to air sometime in 2013. But why wait for that moment? The two have launched an online video site that for SportInAmerica, that…

CNN is cutting dozens of editorial jobs following a three-year review of its “workflow” operations, TV Newser reported. According to a memo obtained by paidContent and attributed to CNN SVP Jack Womack, technology and user-gen has made the network a little less reliant on editorial staffers, particularly photojournalists.

The Associated Press is launching its high-definition AP Entertainment news service as part a “multi-million” dollar upgrade that will make all its video news available in the HD format by the first half of 2012.

The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) pulled in a pretty solid fiscal 2011 and FY Q4, but a number of challenges have emerged that could threaten the company’s cable and broadcast revenues over the next year: the impasse over contract talks between the National Basketball Association and the player’s union…

The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) beat the street on revenue and earnings for the quarter ending Oct. 1, led by its cable networks and theme parks, but interactive continues to operate at a loss despite showing some signs of improvement.

		EPS*	Rev. vs QQ310	Net Inc. vs QQ310
The Walt Disney Co.	Release		7%	21%

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Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) has hired ad sales veteran Joe Lagani to the newly-created post of chief revenue officer as the company seeks to balance out continued growth on the digital side with industrywide challenges affecting the print business.

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Robert Tercek, the former MTV exec and ex-president, Digital Media of Discovery’s OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, closed paidContent Entertainment with a breathless, history-spanning overview of the state and near-future of television: the end of channels, the unbundling of the cable business and the rise of media marketplaces.

Linda Yaccarino, who left her role as SVP/COO of Turner Entertainment Ad Sales & Marketing and Acquisitions after 18 years last week, is quickly resurfacing at NBCUniversal (NSDQ: CMCSA), where she will lead digital and cable ad sales. The announcement also solves a bit of intrigue, as her departure curiously…

There seems to be no escaping the cable industry’s continuing decline in basic video subscribers, and Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) was no exception in Q3, though the rate of those losses appeared to be slowing. In the meantime, Cablevision, which has been making a big bet on its interactive advertising programs,…

		EPS*	Rev. vs QQ310	Net Inc. vs QQ310
Cablevision	Release		8%	65%

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