MCN’s Top 10 Social Media Mavens

Social media continues to permeate — and confuse — just about every aspect of the entertainment business. Skilled analysts in the new communications tool are becoming ever more necessary to every company’s overall success.

Cable Show 2012: Show Co-Chairs Smit, Kent Set the Week's Agenda

As they prepared to tag-team the opening general session at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's Cable Show here this morning, convention co-chairs Neil Smit, president and chief operating officer of Comcast Cable, and Phil Kent, chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting System, sat down with Multichannel News Washington bureau chief John Eggerton to talk about stemming video ...

Upfronts 2012

NEW YORK — ESPN is flanking its sports rights, as well as some major events it is covering from the outside, with digital and social-media elements.

Google, Under Scrutiny, Lobbies Harder

Google has become a powerful force in Washington, heavying up its lobbying presence most recently by hiring former New York Republican congresswoman Susan Molinari to head up its D.C. office. That’s because Washington puts a price on success and size: Scrutiny.

GLOBAL MARKETS-Greece pressures euro, drives demand for German debt

* Euro edges down to near 15-week lows below $1.30 * European shares mixed as eyes on Greece * Oil falls for sixth straight session LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - The euro closed in on athree-month low and ...