Time I.N.C

Yahoo hired Wayne Powers, a former Time Inc. ex­ec­u­tive, to re­vive its slump­ing as sales busi­ness in the United States.

It’s be­come stan­dard is­sue for me­dia ex­ec­u­tives to praise the iPad dur­ing pub­lic events. Today Time Warner’s Jeff Bewkes added a twist, by tak­ing time to talk up tablets made by peo­ple other than Apple. Here are Bewkes’s pre­pared re­marks from Time Warner’s earn­ings call this morn­ing: In Magazines, Content Everywhere means of­fer­ing our sub­scribers a con­ve­nient, at­trac­tive­ly-priced way of en­joy­ing our ti­tles in print and en­hanced elec­tron­ic ver­sions, across as many de­vices as pos­si­ble. If (...)

“TV Everywhere,” VOD for re­cent movie re­leas­es, and com­bined print and dig­i­tal sub­scrip­tions dom­i­nat­ed Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes’ in­tro­duc­tion of the com­pa­ny’s Q3 earn­ings call. He ex­pects to an­nounce VOD for new re­leas­es by the sec­ond quar­ter of next year. “It’s just about try­ing to find the right win­dow at the right prices,” Bewkes said. Meanwhile, one of the other note­wor­thy points made dur­ing the call: Time Inc.‘s dig­i­tal pub­lish­ing rev­enues grew 20 per­cent in Q3. He then touched (...)

The rev­enue and prof­its for Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner’s ca­ble net­works HBO and Turner re­mained solid in Q3, as its magazi­nes made gains in ad­ver­tis­ing that were negat­ed by a drop in sub­scrip­tion dol­lars, and the film busi­ness was un­able to find a re­lease to match the huge box of­fice of last year’s Harry Potter movie. Meanwhile, prof­its fell due to a pre-tax charge $295 mil­lion loss re­lat­ed to the pay­ment of some of the com­pa­ny’s bonds. Time Inc.: Operating in­come grew 45 per­cent, most­ly thanks (...)

“It’s not a pink slip, it’s a blank page.” This is the tag line of ‘Lemonade‘, a short film that I saw ear­lier this year about 16 ad­ver­tis­ing pro­fes­sion­als who lost their jobs after the 2008 re­ces­sion and then ‘found their call­ing’. Although I didn’t tech­ni­cal­ly get a pink slip, I cer­tain­ly got a blank page after ­part­ing ways with my pre­vi­ous em­ploy­er. I was left with 2 weeks to find a new job be­fore be­ing boot­ed back to Australia due to Visa re­stric­tions. I con­sid­ered my op­tions very care­ful­ly and (...)