By Ron Grover
Their business is making stars. But these days, the moguls running the fantasy factories seem to be getting nearly as much ink as the celebs they create. What company will Barry buy next? Who's squaring off against Rupert? And where will Michael's Magic Kingdom show up next?
The media business is being transformed as never before, giving moguls like John Malone, Gerald Levine, and the Dreamworks troika an ever-larger world in which to make deals, create new products, and seek alliances. Power Lunch intends to take you inside media conglomerates -- and those that are only now emerging on the scene -- to tell the stories of the moguls and how they're fighting the war for consumers' eyes, ears, and pocketbooks. Ron Grover, Business Week's Los Angeles bureau chief and a veteran Hollywood reporter, gets the inside tales and passes them on to you before they hit the front pages of your local newspaper.
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December 2000
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Dec. 29 | |
How Disney Lost Its Animated Groove
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Dec. 22 | |
The Twisted Tale of Hannibal
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Dec. 15 | |
A Pot of Gold for Rainbow Media?
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Dec. 8 | |
Will Garth Ancier Take the Fall for NBC's Drop?
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Dec. 4 | |
Meet Henry Yuen: The Gatekeeper for Interactive TV
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November 2000
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Nov. 22 | |
A Media Mogul Thanksgiving
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Nov. 10 | |
Dumb and Dumber in Hollywood
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Nov. 3 | |
UPN's Recipe for Survival
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October
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Oct. 27 | |
AT&T's Trip to the Cleaners
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Oct. 20 | |
CBS's Les Moonves: Hollywood's New Miracle Worker?
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Oct. 16 | |
Is This Leo Hindery's Last Big Deal?
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September
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Sept. 18 | |
John Malone's Power Play at AT&T |
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Sept. 8 | |
How Dreamworks' Terry Press Will Push Almost Famous |
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August
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Aug. 25 | |
Ah, Hollywood -- Where Even Studios Can Have Sequels |
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Aug. 18 | |
Of Chris-Craft and Statecraft |
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Aug. 14 | |
A Big Thumbs-Up for DreamWorks at the Box Office |
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Aug. 4 | |
When Celebrity Web Plans Wobble |
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July
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July 31 | |
AOL-Time Warner Has Media Moguls Munching Sour Grapes |
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July 21 | |
MGM: A Hungry Lion Stalks the Cable Jungle |
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July 14 | | Vivendi's Messier Is Sticking to the Script in Hollywood |
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June
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June 30 | | Spiderman's Creator Leaps onto the Web |
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June 23 | | A Last-Man-Left-Standing Brawl over the WWF |
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June 16 | | Why Vivendi May Lose Its Shirt -- and Pants -- on Seagram |
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June 9 | | Wow, Is That the MTV Crowd Peeking at CBS? |
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May
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May 26 | | What Are They Thinking at Time Warner? |
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May 19 | | NBC: Can This Pair Perk up the Peacock? |
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May 12 | | AOL Time Warner Is Squandering a Key Asset -- Ted Turner |
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May 5 | | Does Dreamworks Have a Script for the Bottom Line? |
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April
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Apr. 28 | | The Mad Dash to Do a Deal with Joe Roth |
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Apr. 21 | | Peter Chernin: News Corp.'s Next Head? |
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Apr. 14 | | Michael Ovitz: Hollywood's Comeback Kid |
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Apr. 7 | | Rob Burgess' Storyboard for Putting Hollywood on the Net |
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March
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Mar. 31 | | Will Disney Get Lost in the Pipeline? |
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Mar. 24 | | Lobbying for Oscar |
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Mar. 17 | | Mark Willes' Fatal Rejection of New Media |
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Mar. 10 | | You Can't Be a Mogul If You Don't Have a Company |
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Mar. 3 | | Watch Out Internet, Rupert Murdoch Is Itching to Move In |
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February
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Feb. 18 | | Tinseltown Is in a Tizzy to Grab Net Bucks |
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Feb. 11 | | Herb Siegel: The Fly in Viacom's Ointment |
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Feb. 3 | | Old Media's Portal Failure |
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January
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Jan. 28 | | Hollywood's Hottest Property? Spielberg's Next Flick |
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Jan. 14 | | Getting Moguls to Move with the Cyber Times |
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December
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Dec. 31 | | How GE and Time Warner Could Play Let's Make a Deal |
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Dec. 24 | | Turner's Peacock Talk Ruffles Time Warner's Feathers |
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Dec. 10 | | Does Oxygen Have Enough Money to Burn? |
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November
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Nov. 25 | | MGM: Will the Lion Roar Again? |
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Nov. 12 | | Fixing Disney: Some Unsolicited Advice for Chairman Eisner |
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October
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Oct. 29 | | Dreamworks: So Many Deals, So Few Profits |
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Oct. 15 | | Will John Malone Soon Be Singing Please
Release Me to AT&T? |
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Oct. 1 | | Barry Diller, a Wallflower at the Media Merger Party? |
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