Hats off to Reuters’ Ron Grover for this eye-opening report: The gun lobby either produces or sponsors six cable shows on the Outdoor Channel and Sportsman Channel, which it uses to promote the NRA‘s views and raise cash, he says. For example, there’s Outdoor Channel’s Friends Of The NRA and American Rifleman, and Sportsman Channel’s Cam & Company, Guns And Gold, and 3-Gun Nation. Each of the channels reaches about 30M pay TV homes, a relatively small audience compared to, say, Espn. But they reach the right people as far as the program producers and sponsors are concerned. The Sportsman Channel’s programming VP Graig Hale says that it charges premium rates on the shows because they appeal to hard-to-reach 25- to 54-year-old men. Grover observes that a recent half-hour episode of American Rifleman had about two dozen ads “including Crimson Trace laser sights, hunting gear discounter...
- 1/21/2013
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
- Deadline TV
Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York Oscar Campaign Scandal Pt.1: Miramax/Robert Wise's Martin Scorsese/Gangs Of New York Oscar Ad The plot got even thicker when Murray Weissman and others later claimed that Robert Wise himself had approached Miramax after reading another Op-Ed piece, this one — "Crashing the Party for Poor Marty" — published in Variety (Feb. 3, 2003) and penned by two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men). In addition to calling Martin Scorsese "a giant ape director" who disregarded his screenwriters (and throwing in mean-spirited putdowns directed at Al Pacino and Robin Williams), Goldman wrote: "The Hollywood parties [Scorsese] is attending must make him want to barf, but there [he] is, glad-handing anyone in the vicinity who is an Academy member who might throw him a vote. "Miramax, the greatest movie company of the era (and the most...
- 2/16/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Ron Grover, a veteran media and entertainment reporter for Bloomberg BusinessWeek, has jumped ship to become the new chief of Reuters' Los Angeles bureau, an individual familiar with the move confirms to TheWrap. Grover has been brought aboard to reinforce Reuters' entertainment-business coverage, as well as to provide big-picture stories on financial and general news topics. Grover started his career with BusinessWeek in 1979, covering energy policy for its Washington bureau, and served as BusinessWeek's congressional correspondent from 1982 to 1986. Grover, a graduate of George Washington University and the Columbia University...
- 1/20/2012
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
How did the publisher of a family-owned newspaper in Adelaide, Australia rise to become one of the most powerful media tycoons on Earth--controlling a fortune worth more than 30 billion dollars? The rise of News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch is probed in a Bloomberg TV special airing Tuesday night. The Murdoch special, part of the Game Changers series, includes interviews with people who've worked with Murdoch at Fox, the New York Post and in the U.K., and by journalists who've studied him. "Rupert Murdoch is what God meant when he created a media executive," says Bloomberg Businessweek's Ron Grover.
- 6/27/2011
- by Mark Joyella
- Mediaite - TV
By Sharon Waxman
Here's the latest on the MGM situation from Ron Grover at Bloomberg, as the March 19 bidding deadline looms: Liberty Media has dropped out.
(Shoot. I didn't even know John Malone's company was in the game.)
Don't expect confirmation from the notoriously press-shy company in Colorado. But the reason, according to Grover's sources, are that the valuation of the company is too high.
He writes: "Liberty’s assessment of MGM’s value fell below a price company executives believed would be acceptable to the Los Angeles-based studio’s credit...
Here's the latest on the MGM situation from Ron Grover at Bloomberg, as the March 19 bidding deadline looms: Liberty Media has dropped out.
(Shoot. I didn't even know John Malone's company was in the game.)
Don't expect confirmation from the notoriously press-shy company in Colorado. But the reason, according to Grover's sources, are that the valuation of the company is too high.
He writes: "Liberty’s assessment of MGM’s value fell below a price company executives believed would be acceptable to the Los Angeles-based studio’s credit...
- 3/17/2010
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York Oscar Campaign Scandal: Robert Wise, Miramax & Gangs Of New York Part I Back to Robert Wise (right) and Gangs of New York: The plot got even thicker when Murray Weissman and others later claimed that Wise himself had approached Miramax after reading another Op-Ed piece, this one published in Variety (Feb. 3, 2003) and penned by two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men), who called Gangs of New York "a mess" and Martin Scorsese "a giant ape director" who disregarded his screenwriters. (In his article, John Horn states that Miramax approached Wise.) A Business Weekly piece by Ron Grover questioned the Academy’s double standard. Why [...]...
- 3/3/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Things were going so well for Ron Grover in his piece about MGM's slow plunge toward insolvency. There was the news that the studio's creditors declined an equity stake in the company as part of its restructuring, and then, once again, there were those mind-blowing figures we're so used to reading in any discussion of MGM's flagging fortunes: $3.7 billion in debt, with the creditors balking at another $1.2 billion in new debt to help get the studio's production slate going. Instead, they want a buyer -- and they're not above selling the Lion for parts, including The Hobbit, the vast film library and the James Bond franchise. Which is where it gets a little tricky.
- 11/12/2009
- Movieline
BusinessWeek's Ron Grover has a nice scoop: When DreamWorks moved to Disney for distribution, it fell under Disney pay TV deal with Starz through 2012. But Starz balked. You see pay channels like Starz get a piece of the annual $10-$12 a month that a cable operator collects from customers who get the channel. So let’s say that Starz has 18 million subscribers, the last number which owner Liberty Media reported to the SEC. If it gets $5 a month from each subscriber, it generates revenues of $90 million a month or about $1.1 billion a year. The problem comes in [...]...
- 11/6/2009
- by Nikki Finke
- Deadline Hollywood
By Sharon Waxman
Executives at NBC-Universal are smacking their foreheads over an interview General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt gave Ron Grover at Business Week today, in which the current top dog made it clear that come what may, his man Jeff Zucker will still have a job.
That’s the message coming from between the lines of Immelt ‘s remarks :
“He’s a smart, tough media executive who is not afraid of change at a very difficult time for the media industry,” Immelt said, apparently without having looked at Leno’s ratings.
Immelt adds: “I think ...
Executives at NBC-Universal are smacking their foreheads over an interview General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt gave Ron Grover at Business Week today, in which the current top dog made it clear that come what may, his man Jeff Zucker will still have a job.
That’s the message coming from between the lines of Immelt ‘s remarks :
“He’s a smart, tough media executive who is not afraid of change at a very difficult time for the media industry,” Immelt said, apparently without having looked at Leno’s ratings.
Immelt adds: “I think ...
- 10/13/2009
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
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