Interviews

April 2007 By Anna Carugati As media companies large and small experiment with the new-media world, looking for the best and most remunerative ways of offering programming to viewers, NBC Universal has already found several. Beth Comstock, the president of …

By Mansha Daswani April 2007 NBC has been able to regain some of its luster among the coveted 18-to-49 demographic this year, and much of that turnaround is due to Heroes, a show about a group of ordinary individuals who …

May 2007 By Maria Teresa Alvarado Grupo Televisa is not only the market leader in free TV and pay TV in Mexico—it is also the largest producer of Spanish-language product in the world. It operates four free-TV channels that reach …

May 2007 By Anna Carugati Sony is one of the world’s best-known brands. The name conjures up images of TV sets, laptop computers, digital cameras, not to mention the ever-popular PlayStation. The Japanese media giant is also home to Sony …

April 2007 By Anna Carugati Are newspapers a dying breed? Many in the media world think so, claiming that in ten years’ time or even less, printed dailies will have disappeared; replaced, for better or for worse, by journalism on …

April 2007 By Anna Carugati Time Warner is the biggest media company in the world. It is the home of such renowned worldwide brands as Warner Bros., CNN, HBO, Cartoon Network, AOL and many more. Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner’s president …

April 2007 By Anna Carugati It’s one of the largest media companies in the world, but it’s not based in New York or Los Angeles or Tokyo or any other major metropolitan area. With headquarters in suburban Gütersloh, Germany, Bertelsmann …

April 2007 By Mansha Daswani In much the same way as the peer-to-peer site Kazaa revolutionized the music world and Skype shook up the telecommunications industry, the new online content platform Joost is looking to turn the television-viewing experience on …

January 2007 In 1993, Ricardo B. Salinas, one of Mexico’s most successful entrepreneurs, bought two national licenses and some run-down broadcasting equipment from the Mexican government. What resulted were Azteca 13 and Azteca 7, two networks that turned the Mexican …

January 2007 By Anna Carugati Visit just about any toy store and chances are you’ll see a whole range of Nickelodeon-branded products, from Dora dollhouses to SpongeBob SquarePants video games to Blue’s Clues toys and books. Leigh Anne Brodsky, the …