AT&T Inc. is weighing a sale of its regional sports networks as part of a plan to cut as much as $8 billion in debt by the end of the year, according to people familiar with the matter. The four regional networks, which includes rights to teams such as the hockey’s Pittsburgh Penguins, basketball’s Houston Rockets and baseball’s Seattle Mariners, could fetch close to $1 billion, according to the people, who asked not to be identified as the deliberations are private. Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., which agreed in May to buy 21 Fox regional sports networks from Walt Disney Co. for $9.6 billion, could be among the potential buyers, the people said. John Malone’s Liberty Media Corp. and Ice Cube’s Big3 U.S. basketball league were among the other bidders for the Fox assets. AT&T hasn’t started a formal process to sell the networks, and there are no guarantees a deal will be announced, the people said. The four networks are AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain (Utah, Nevada and Colorado), AT&T SportsNet Southwest (parts of Texas and Louisiana) and Root Sports Northwest (Alaska, Washington and Oregon). The four networks have rights to more than two dozen pro teams, college programs and NCAA conferences. A representative for AT&T declined to comment, while Sinclair didn’t respond to requests for comment. A sale of the regional sports networks—known as must-see content for avid fans—highlights AT&T’s ongoing struggle to fix a... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2019-07-02 19:54:11 UTC ]
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Steve Fisher is joining Adams Publishing Group as regional president of APG Media of Southern Minnesota. Before joining APG, Fisher Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-09-27 20:19:01 UTC ]
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As reported in The Republic, Columbus, Ohio’s Mason Engel had already tried to get his self-published reboot of Orwell’s dystopian classic, 1984, into the hands of New York literary agents—like, right into their actual hands. After reaching number one in Amazon’s dystopian fiction category,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-09-25 15:11:55 UTC ]
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Adding an adult section to a children’s bookstore has been a profitable investment. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-25 12:00:09 UTC ]
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Two-time winners Donald McRae and Duncan Hamilton are in line for a historic treble after making the 12-strong longlist for the £30,000 William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2019. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-24 03:37:08 UTC ]
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Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for our daily newsletter. You can also get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Whassup?... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-19 10:00:00 UTC ]
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Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments (Vintage) has soared into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, with 103,177 print copies sold in its first week on sale. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-17 01:57:31 UTC ]
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Carl Esposito, publisher of The Daily Times (Maryville/Alcoa, Tennessee) for nine years and regional president for Adams Publishing Group for Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-09-13 17:12:55 UTC ]
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A month after longtime AMC Networks ad sales executive Scott Collins parted ways with the home of “The Walking Dead” and “Killing Eve,” the cable programmer has tapped a mainstay from the magazine world to oversee its linear TV and digital inventory. AMC this afternoon announced that it has... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-03 23:26:31 UTC ]
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A roundup of key happenings at all eight shows, including panels and roundtables, author signings and mini-TED talks, and even a few pajama parties. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Welcome to another edition of Ad Age Sports Media Marketing Brief, a weekly roundup of news from every zone of the sports media spray chart, including the latest on broadcast/cable/streaming, sponsorships, endorsements, gambling and tech. Luck has nothing to do with it While Andrew Luck’s... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-08-29 21:57:17 UTC ]
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Recalling my 25 years covering the magazine industry’s tortured migration to digital, TV envy first became evident in the early 2000s. Whatever online scale many print brands achieved in their early efforts were quickly overshadowed by the sheer on-air promotional heft of cable brands like... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-08-28 17:56:47 UTC ]
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In pushing the romance genre aside, Australia’s publishing industry sent its most successful writers to pursue their careers abroadNalini Singh is trying to convince me to read a love story starring bears. The tiny author is tucked up under a huge scarf in a cafe on a freezing August day in... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-08-17 22:00:54 UTC ]
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Quarto has described the first half of 2019 as "encouraging" after global results showed group revenue edged up to $56.4m and losses declined 75% compared to the same period in 2018. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-16 11:00:57 UTC ]
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In a first-time focus on the Middle East's publishing industry, the International Publishers Association is planning a regional event in the Jordanian capital. The post IPA Outlines a First Middle East Regional Seminar in Amman appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-08-13 13:55:30 UTC ]
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Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device; sign up here. Walmart removes pro-gun T-shirt listings Walmart has removed T-shirts with pro-gun slogans from its website... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-08-13 10:25:56 UTC ]
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Put your text here. image By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson subhed xxx The post International Publishers Association Outlines First Amman Regional Seminar appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-08-13 05:55:48 UTC ]
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Verizon started looking to offload Tumblr since at least May. Now it's found a taker. Automattic Inc., the software company behind the online publishing platform WordPress, has agreed to scoop up the blogging platform both companies said Monday afternoon. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-08-12 21:22:39 UTC ]
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Notice more TV ads lately? You’re not imagining it. The amount of commercial time on cable TV keeps increasing as networks try to make up for shrinking audiences by stuffing more ads into every hour of television. That’s despite years of promises to cut back on ads. Last quarter, commercial... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-08-02 17:18:39 UTC ]
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By forgoing a subscription model for a digital content studio model, Otro is opening up for more audience scale and revenue options. The post Six months in, sports app Otro pivots away from subscriptions appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2019-07-31 04:01:04 UTC ]
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could reportedly further shrink its future offices at the Time Warner Center amid a global restructuring. The embattled financial institution signed a lease in May 2018 to move into a roughly 1.1... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2019-07-30 12:59:30 UTC ]
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