Media & Entertainment
- ESPN Deportes To Carry Super Bowl 50 – Broadcasting & Cable (12/28/15, 1:00 PM)
- TV Production Sector Faces Shake-Up– FT (12/28/15, 7:01 PM)
- Christopher Nolan to Direct Action Thriller 'Dunkirk' for Warner Bros. – Variety (12/28/15, 1:56 PM)
- Showtime Sets Early Online Premieres For 'Billions,' 'Shameless'– Variety (12/28/15, 2:51 PM)
- 'Star Wars' Crosses $1B Global Box Office To Break "World" Record; Offshore Cume Rises To $550.3M – Deadline (12/28/15, 8:35 AM)
- Stars of India's Online Video Scene Struggle to Make a Living – NYT (12/28/15, 1:06 PM)
- 'Game of Thrones' Is Still the Most-Pirated TV Show – Variety (12/28/15, 11:21 AM)
Cable, Satellite & Telecom
- GCI Says It Will Drop AMC, Univision – Broadcasting & Cable (12/28/15, 10:19 PM)
- AT&T Settles Entertainment Studios' Bias Suit With Deal To Carry Its Channels – Deadline (12/28/15, 1:04 PM)
- Verizon Will Give You Up To $650 To Switch From Another Carrier – The Verge (12/28/15, 10:38 AM)
- Roku Warns Against FCC OVD Redefinition – Broadcasting & Cable (12/28/15, 5:15 PM)
- NCTC Carriage Talks With AMC Continue – Broadcasting & Cable (12/28/15, 2:22 PM)
Advertising
- How Typecasting Millennials Is Hurting Ad Buyers – AdAge (12/28/15)
- Year in Review: The Best and Worst Ads of 2015 – WSJ (12/28/15, 4:10 PM)
- Snapchat Is Making Its Own Original Content for Discover Again – AdAge (12/28/15)
Industry News & Thought Pieces
Must Read with Links:
- This Was the Year the Media Started Doubting the Web – Wired (12/28/15, 7:00 AM)
- 13 Media and Advertising 'Trends' in 2015 That Never Happened– WSJ (12/28/15, 7:00 AM)
- Canada's Great Cable Unbundling: What's Ahead in 2016 – Hollywood Reporter (12/28/15, 1:17 PM)
Recent Research
FOXA: Waiting for Evidence of the Recovery (11/18/15)
MANU: The Post-Nike Era Begins (11/17/15
DISH: Spectrum Uncertainty Remains (11/16/15)
VIAB: Still Too Cheap (11/13/15)
CBS: Forecasts Stabilize (11/11/15)
DIS: Strong Operating Trends (11/10/15)
TWX: Investment is Good (11/4/15)
DISCA: Increasing Leverage to Buy Back Stock (11/4/15)
VIAB: Analyzing the Dish Renewal Event (10/28/15)
DISCA: Investor Day Recap (9/30/15)
CBS: Factoring in a Content Licensing Gap in 2016 (9/24/15)
CVC: It Finally Happened (9/17/15)
CBS: Sifting Through the Rubble (8/21/15)
DIS: Skinny Bundles Take a Bite (8/10/15)
CMCSA: Q2 Review: Strong Execution (7/23/15)
Q3 Sector Review: Reasons to be Cheerful (11/20/15)
Q2 Sector Review (DISCA, FOXA, TWX, VIAB): Resilient to Disruption but Self-Help Required (9/14/15)
Sector Initiation: The Bundle Games (6/2/15)
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