Media Entertainment

• Convergence Review; media and entertainment.

The level of Government activity regarding media content stepped up again last week with the release by DBCDE of five Discussion Papers for the Conver...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2011, January 2011

• Media and Entertainment Sector in India Prime for Investment ; Growing Digitization, Media Consumption and Improving Demographics Are Leading Drivers for Industry Growth

LONDON, Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Indian Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry registered revenues of US$16.3 billion in 2010 and is expected to be in excess of US$25 billion in the next four years, according to Ernst & Young's report - 'Spotlight on India's Entertainment Economy'. The study released today shows that India's growing digital media consumption and favorable demographics are key drivers for the media and entertainment industry's future growth. Enticed by economic liberalization, near double-digit annual growth, a fast-growing middle class and a huge volume of demand for leisure and entertainment, there has been a surge in investment by global media companies in India. The Indian media and entertainment industry now finds itself at a new turning point - digital medi...

• U.S. Newswire
• December 06, 2011

• John Hogan Promoted to Chairman and CEO of Clear Channel Media and Entertainment.

Award-Winning Radio Veteran Has Overseen Rebranding and Integration of Extensive Assets and Franchises, Like Iconic Brands KIIS FM, Z100, KFI And Othe...

• Business Wire
• February 23, 2012

• ZOBMONDO ENTERTAINMENT, LLC V. FALLS MEDIA, LLC, (9th Cir. 2010)

FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT ZOBMONDO ENTERTAINMENT, LLC, a  Californ...

• Federal Circuits

• Fitch Publishes its U.S. Media & Entertainment Recovery Rating and Notching Review.

NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has published its Recovery Rating and Notching review of the U.S. Media and Entertainment sector. The report includes an an...

• Business Wire
• April 15, 2011

• Media, Celebrities, and Fans: An Examination of Adolescents' Media Usage and Involvement with Entertainment Celebrities

This study examines how adolescents' involvement with entertainment celebrities mediates media effects on personal values and subjective well-being. A survey of 621 adolescents aged from 11 to 18 years old in Singapore showed that the three aspects of adolescents' involvement with celebrities-entertainment-social values, intense-personal feelings, and borderline-pathological tendencies-were associated with adolescents' media consumption, with the association between intense-personal feelings and media consumption a reciprocal one. The three aspects were directly or indirectly associated with the adolescents' materialistic values, self-esteem, and life satisfaction.

• Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
• Vol. 86 Nbr. 1, April 2009

• Music, Entertainment and Media Executive John Sykes Joins Clear Channel as President, Clear Channel Entertainment Enterprises.

New Role Will Leverage Power of Clear Channel's Brands and Reach to Create New Businesses and Build Assets to Serve Major Advertisers and Strategic Pa...

• Business Wire
• January 17, 2012

• Secret? What dirty little economic secret? Adult entertainment industry faces many of the challenges confronting mainstream media.

Media/Entertainment

• San Fernando Valley Business Journal
• December 10, 2007

• Clear Channel Radio is Rebranded as Clear Channel Media and Entertainment.

New Brand Reflects Company's Focus on Delivering the Best Entertainment and Most Important Content to Diverse Audiences Across Multiple Platforms, Inc...

• Business Wire
• January 13, 2012

• Robert Pittman to Serve as Chairman of Media and Entertainment Platforms for Clear Channel.

Makes Equity Investment and Will Spearhead Integrated Digital Strategy for Global Leader in Radio Will Also Continue as Founding Member of Pilot Gro...

• Business Wire
• November 15, 2010