On Mediatag:www.businessweek.com,2010-03-09:/innovate/FineOnMedia/252010-05-04T22:10:38ZRead the best small business marketing blog. Get the latest advertising media analysis and marketing trends.Movable Type 4.37The Icahn Saga: The Poison Pill That Isn'ttag:nybw.businessweek.com,2010:/innovate/FineOnMedia//25.234102010-02-17T03:24:00Z2010-05-04T22:10:38Z Carl Icahn is a reporter's dream. When things get a little slow, the 74-year old dealmaker always does something to spice it up. Which is what he did today when he said he was launching a tender offer for...Ron GroverRyan Kavanaugh May Make Believers out of Hollywood Yettag:nybw.businessweek.com,2010:/innovate/FineOnMedia//25.234092010-02-08T04:50:52Z2010-05-01T05:18:33ZFor most of the last five years, it seems, Hollywood’s favorite game has been handicap when – not if – Ryan Kavanaugh would come crashing down. Kavanaugh, who runs Relativity Media, is the 35-year old wunderkind who raised more than...Ron GroverMr. Zucker, Comcast On Line Threetag:nybw.businessweek.com,2010:/innovate/FineOnMedia//25.233992010-01-12T22:07:30Z2010-05-01T05:18:25ZThe rub on Jeff Zucker, who heads NBC, has always been that no one could ever figure out what he did to get to the top. The 44-year old was a creature of General Electric. He rose from nowhere, starting...Ron GroverLeno Leaves, NBC's Wobbly Business Model Returnstag:nybw.businessweek.com,2010:/innovate/FineOnMedia//25.233972010-01-11T02:48:20Z2010-05-01T05:18:23ZAnnouncements don’t get much more dramatic than the one NBC made today about yanking The Jay Leno show from its 10 o’clock time period just three months after the former host of The Tonight Show began his one-hour comedy, skit...Ron GroverNews Corp, Time Warner Play to DC Not The Viewerstag:nybw.businessweek.com,2010:/innovate/FineOnMedia//25.233962010-01-02T06:05:35Z2010-05-01T05:18:23Z Was there ever any doubt that News Corp. and Time Warner would come to an agreement that would allow Time Warner’s cable unit to continue showing News Corp’s cable or broadcast properties on its system? The announcement on Jan....Ron GroverWill The Fox and Time Warner Cable Spat Rekindle The A La Carte Debate?tag:nybw.businessweek.com,2009:/innovate/FineOnMedia//25.233742009-12-31T16:52:08Z2010-05-01T05:17:39ZAs surely as the ball drops in Manhattan’s Times Square, another certainty on New Year’s Eve now seems to be that a tv programmer and a cable distributor will be locked in a public feud over money that almost certainly...Tom LowryRobert Downey, Jr. Superstartag:nybw.businessweek.com,2009:/innovate/FineOnMedia//25.233732009-12-28T05:59:45Z2010-05-01T05:17:38Z It suddenly occurred to me today – after my wife and I were forced to head back to the theater twice in the same weekend to catch Sherlock Holmes -- that Robert Downey, Jr. has suddenly become the hottest...Ron GroverSo Long AOL Time Warner, Old Friendtag:nybw.businessweek.com,2009:/innovate/FineOnMedia//25.233722009-12-09T16:30:51Z2010-05-01T05:17:38ZFor media reporters everywhere, Thursday will be one wistful day. AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is expected to climb the podium and ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. With that, AOL will officially be unleashed from Time...Tom LowryMarvel Studio Chairman to Jet Off to New Adventuretag:nybw.businessweek.com,2009:/innovate/FineOnMedia//25.233712009-12-07T21:55:47Z2010-05-01T05:17:37ZDavid Maisel will soon be an ex-super hero. The Chairman of Marvel Studios, who helped build the comic book company into an action movie powerhouse, is leaving the New York-based company once its $4 billion deal with the Walt Disney...Ron GroverDow Jones Executive Recruited To Be Bloomberg BusinessWeek Presidenttag:nybw.businessweek.com,2009:/innovate/FineOnMedia//25.233702009-12-07T21:41:21Z2010-05-01T05:17:37ZA Dow Jones executive charged with boosting revenues across the company's various print and online properties will become the first president of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Paul Bascobert, 45, will be responsible for finding new revenue opportunities for the magazine, as well...Tom LowryCan AOL Be Saved?tag:nybw.businessweek.com,2009:/innovate/FineOnMedia//25.233692009-12-03T22:05:14Z2010-05-01T05:17:37ZIn less than a week, AOL's corporate overlords at Time Warner will spin out the Internet unit, ending what is arguably the worst corporate marriage ever. Here's our take in this week's magazine, the first edition of Bloomberg BusinessWeek, on...Tom LowryGE, Vivendi Move Closer to NBC Dealtag:nybw.businessweek.com,2009:/innovate/FineOnMedia//25.233682009-11-30T22:28:08Z2010-05-01T05:17:37ZGeneral Electric (GE) and French telecommunications company Vivendi(VIVDY) are inching back toward a deal for GE to buy Vivendi’s 20% stake in NBC Universal, sources say. The movement comes a week after talks between the two sides seemed near collapse,...Ron GroverByrne Leaving BusinessWeek to Start Digital Media Companytag:nybw.businessweek.com,2009:/innovate/FineOnMedia//25.233672009-11-24T21:25:38Z2010-05-01T05:17:35ZJohn A. Byrne, for years one of BusinessWeek's most prolific writers and later one its most admired editors, is leaving the magazine to launch his own digital media company. Byrne, 56, an executive editor and editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek.com, said he...Tom LowryFirst Bids in MGM Auction Expected Soontag:nybw.businessweek.com,2009:/innovate/FineOnMedia//25.233662009-11-23T23:24:47Z2010-05-01T05:17:35ZHow’s the modern day “data room” work? Forget the locked conference room in a law firm, where the dealmakers of old used to pour over reams of facts, figures and assumptions while contemplating whether to bid for a company. MGM,...Ron GroverA Chat With BusinessWeek's Editor-To-Betag:nybw.businessweek.com,2009:/innovate/FineOnMedia//25.233652009-11-17T19:05:29Z2010-05-01T05:17:35ZJosh Tyrangiel, who was named this morning to be editor of a Bloomberg-owned BusinessWeek, says it's too early to lay out specific plans for the magazine but his goal is to create "a great indispensable business weekly." In a brief...Tom Lowry