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BlogHer (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Julia Boorstin of is an entertainment and media reporter for CNBC . Her job allows her to cover issues as varied as the projected opening box office for films like "Dark Knight" and "Mamma Mia," to interviewing the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. She also writes a blog called "Media Money" for CNBC's website that covers new media, old media and everything in between. Next week...
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Julia Boorstin submits: The Virtual Worlds Expo is well underway in Los Angeles , with companies using the event as a platform to make announcements about their new technologies. Second Life, arguably the most prominent player in the space, with nearly 15 million registered users, is announcing a new voice-driven instant messaging technology so avatars in the virtual world can communicate...
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SeekingAlpha Media Stocks (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Julia Boorstin submits: The zip code that launched a zeitgeist and defined a generation of TV-watchers is returning to the air waves. On Tuesday September 2, the CW Network launched a new version of the hit "Beverly Hills 90210" that ran for 10 seasons on News Corp.'s (NWS) Fox. Complete Story »
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Julia Boorstin submits: CNBC's parent company NBC Universal (GE) did quite well with the Olympics. More than 211 million Americans watched the games -- that's more than 70 percent of the country -- making them the most-watched ever, beating the 209 million viewers who watched the 1996 Atlanta games. (Though it's worth noting there are more TVs out there now.) Complete Story »
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
Julia Boorstin submits: U.K.-based WPP Group (WPPGY), the world's second largest advertising and marketing company. reported its earnings Friday. WPP revealed that so far, it hasn't been hit by the global economic slowdown. Complete Story »
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Julia Boorstin submits: It's been nearly a year since IAC/InterActive Corp (IACI) CEO Barry Diller announced his intention to split up the company into five pieces. It hasn't been an easy process: Diller and Liberty's John Malone, IAC's largest shareholder, battled over whether this breakup should happen, all the way to court. But it is happening, and the spinoff of four additional publicly...
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Julia Boorstin submits: High gasoline prices and the pullback in consumer spending are impacting Americans' entertainment habits -- but not the way you'd think. Perhaps the entertainment industry overall really is recession-proof: People may be skipping their vacations, but a "staycation" these days means watching more TV and playing more video games. Complete Story »
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SeekingAlpha Media Stocks (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Julia Boorstin submits: If you're a music lover, you'll fall for Pandora, an online music service that allows its 1 million daily listeners to custom-create the equivalent of a radio station tailored to their taste. It's remarkably easy: You plug in a favorite tune and it finds others like it -- tunes you've never before heard. It attracts 40,000 new customers a day and it's one of the...
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Julia Boorstin submits: Warner Bros. made a surprise announcement Thursday -- it's pushing the release of its Harry Potter sequel, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from November 11 to July 17, 2009. That's eight months -- leaving Warner Bros. without its holiday season tentpole! Complete Story »
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SeekingAlpha Media Stocks (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Julia Boorstin submits: The third dimension is coming soon to a theater near you. No I'm not talking about a movie, but rather a high-stakes drama involving the biggest movie studios and theater chains, enmeshed in a battle over who and how the transition to digital 3-D will be financed. Now finally, Hollywood's biggest studios are close to making a deal with a consortium of movie theater...
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Julia Boorstin submits: It seems like nearly every month there's a different reason to lament the decline and fall of the publishing industry. Now it's the magazine business that's looking messy, as the Audit Bureau of Circulation's has just released sales numbers for the first half of the year. The pullback in consumer spending is hitting magazine sales hard, especially at the newsstand,...
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Julia Boorstin submits: It's not just Michael Phelps setting records. More people are watching this year's Olympic games than ever before. NBCOlympics.com attracted four million unique users Saturday, the day after the opening ceremony kicked off the event, when 2.7 million unique users logged in. NBC's (GE) site attracted the most viewers with 2,200 hours of live streaming competition....
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Julia Boorstin submits: It's a big day for Electronic Arts, and a big day for Madden fans. Last night at midnight, Madden NFL 09 went on sale, the 20th anniversary of the longest-running franchise in sports video games. Electronic Arts (ERTS) and Microsoft's (MSFT) XBox 360 celebrated with a big party in the Rose Bowl. Big bands, including Good Charlotte, played, and at 9 pm eastern,...
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Julia Boorstin submits: Video rental company Blockbuster (BBI) posted a second quarter loss of $44.7 million, or 23 cents per share, compared to an 18 cent-per-share loss in the year-ago quarter. But, thanks to improved sales--up three percent from last year to $1.3 billion--the company raised its outlook, predicting a profit of between $21 million and $36 million for the whole year....
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Julia Boorstin submits: The Olympics which kick off Friday are bringing in over $1 billion in revenue to NBC Universal, by some measures itself justifying GE's (GE) ownership of the division. But the Olympics are far more than just a boost for NBC Universal, they're also an unprecedented experiment with online content distribution, bound to transform the way media companies distribute...
