21 Sep 2009
Media business articles that caught my eye
Conventional media industry thinking focused on growth, globalization, content and convergence is bad for media business — from the forthcoming book The Curse of the Mogul by three Columbia Business School professors [The Atlantic]
Vivendi is expected to exercise its yearly option to sell its stake in NBC this November/December [NYTimes]
When some media companies failed to make debt repayments to their Wall St. lenders, these lenders wound up with stakes in or full ownership of some media companies, like Citadel Broadcasting. Now, as the lenders — including GE Capital and JP Morgan — try to restructure the companies they own pieces of, they have to navigate stringent FCC regulations [WSJ]
Valuing Web companies is the opposite of easy [WSJ Deal Journal]
