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Thursday, March 10, 2011
Time Warner Inc. is a Proven Technology Thief and Fails to Disclose to Shareholders.
2:52 PM 12/6/2010 by Georg Szal
he CEO says money offered by Web aggregators for recent TV shows is "measly" and HBO could get unbundled from current cable packages.
NEW YORK -- Time Warner chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes predicted Monday that entertainment companies will in the future limit program deals with such low-priced online aggregators as Netflix to content that has pretty much run its course in previous release cycles, such as in syndication and on DVD, rather than current content.
Doing so will allow content firms to fully monetize the value of their productions that can often still make millions in other release windows when they already are available online, he suggested.
"Some of the things you see in place now will not remain," he said in a lunch time keynote interview at the 38th annual UBS Global Media and Communications Conference with Aryeh Bourkoff, joint global head of Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) banking at UBS.
Asked about a recent report that Netflix is looking to pay as much as $70,000-$100,000 per in-season episode of TV shows for streaming purposes, Bewkes said: "If you took your example [of price], which is a measly little offer...that is not attractive or incremental" given that content companies can get millions and millions in the various syndication cycles and on DVD. "Large aggregation at a low price is not particularly useful" to content creators and consumers alike, Bewkes argued.
To make Netflix bids competitive, the company would have to not only make offers for the streaming rights portion, but the broader set of content rights, Bewkes suggested.
"I don't think it makes sense" for content firms to pay big money to produce high-quality TV series and for networks to pay high price tags for them only to have them show up on a low-priced Web service, which pays only a fraction, he offered.
Netflix and other online services that cost $8-$10 per subscriber a month are naturally a better place for content that doesn't have further monetizable use in other places, he said. "It should be things that don't have further monetization or higher monetization" in other release windows, he said.
TW's Warner Bros. this summer licensed a package of TV shows, such as Pushing Daisies and Veronica Mars, to Netflix that it felt don't have more upside in other windows.
Bewkes has been more outspoken than others in the entertainment industry about how Netflix is both a potential partner and a potential threat to business models.
Don't worry about HBO, Bewkes also told investors when asked about the premium TV service.
HBO's paying subscriber figures have been pretty much unchanged in the recession, and revenue is higher due to its pricing power. Solely promotional sub figures are set to decline this year, he said, referring to a recent prediction that HBO will lose about 1.5 million subs this year, mostly promotional ones.
Bewkes also suggested HBO could in the future be offered to consumers outside traditional cable and satellite TV packages -- via traditional or new distributors. He signalled that could make sense if subscriber growth one day is "overly hindered" by consumers' need to pay for a pricey pay TV service for $60-$100, for example, with HBO on top.
He didn't provide further details on how such an offer could work and when he may start considering it, but his suggestion comes amid recent subscriber losses for TV distributors and related concerns about cord cutting.
Bewkes has previously signalled he may look at new approaches.
HBO has been rolling out HBO Go, a broadband offer for people who already subscribe to the premium TV service via their cable, satellite or telecom provider. The TW CEO has hinted that the broadband service could one day be marketed directly to consumers.
Asked about TW's recent stock underperformance, Bewkes quipped: "Thanks for pointing that out."
Calling the stock performance "a little frustrating" given the company's "stable operating performance" and investor-friendly moves, Bewkes argued that business model fear in the digital age "is causing a lot of, in my view, under-valuation."
He then reiterated his previously stated belief that digital is "more an opportunity than a threat."
Bewkes predicted that beyond Google TV, Microsoft, Facebook and other technology players will also look to bring content to consumers together with programmers in new interfaces. "
Source of Jeffrey Bewkes Post
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/time-warners-jeff-bewkes-calls-56683
Open Letter to Time Warner Shareholders Disclosing Massive Fraud and Cover Ups that Time Warner's CEO Jeff Bewkes knows about, as Well as Ex - Time Warner General Counsel Curtis LU.
http://www.investigativejournalist.net/2011/02/open-letter-to-time-warner-warner-bros.html
Jeffrey Bewkes is GUILTY of Massive Shareholder Fraud
http://www.jeffreybewkes.com/
http://www.deniedpatent.com/
Crystal L. Cox
Investigative Blogger
Crystal@CrystalCox.com
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Jeffrey Bewkes Seems to Have FINALLY Noticed Me, I am Flattered to Say the Least..
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Harbinger Capital Partners, The Money Behind Corrupt General Counsel of Lightsquared Curtis Lu NOW Knows of Massive Shareholder Fraud.
http://www.jeffreybewkes.com/2010/10/jeffrey-bewkes-time-warner-inc-fails-to.html
"2nd October 2010
16:24:09 - 12 hours 55 mins 31 secs "
The Post that has a Lengthy Conversation between Eliot Bernstein - His Attorney and Curtis Lu of Time Warner Inc. Before Curtis Lu LEAVES Time Warner for Philip Falcone - Harbinger Capital Partners investment of " Lightsquared ". So Sunday Morning.. Harbinger Capital Partners - Harbinger Capital Partners Offshore Manager, LLC - New York Spends 12 Hours Parked on the Post.. Listening Intently to the Massive Liability Coming SOON to Harbinger Capital Partners - LightSquared Investors. The Proof is Easy, the Corruption is has Been in the way for a Decade - So now this Massive Shareholder Fraud will fall on the Harbinger Capital Partners investors as well as Time Warner Inc.
So What Will Harbinger Capital Do?Will Philp Falcone Disclose this Liability that is NOW at Lightsquared or will Philip Falcone of Harbinger Capital Partners join the Ranks of those who fail to Disclose the Massive Sharefholder Fraud Covered up in the Iviewit Technologies Scandal?
So Philip Falcone of Harbinger Capital Partners How will YOU deal with the Curtis Lu Problem? Fire Him, Sue Me... Help Cover for Curtis Lu and Time Warner Inc. ???
In order to Save your Ass and Billions of Your Investors Money you have to now DEAL with this Curtis Lu - LightSquared, General Counsel Thing.
You See Philip Falcone, Harbinger Capital Partners all the folks on my blog www.DeniedPatent.com that have been involved in the Multi-Trillion Dollar Stolen Iviewit Technology for over a decade now, well there is NOT one Balsy Savvy Business Brain among them.
See there are over 1200 documents of proof, there is phone calls, emails, police reports, department of justice and SEC Reports... Intel Corp. - Lockheed Martin - SONY - IBM - Time Warner Inc. - AOL and many more are Liable for this Technology they have blatantly used for a decade, and as the Patents are held up by USPTO Corruption and Connections to Corrupt Law Firm Proskauer Rose LLP and Foley and Larder well..
Eliot Bernstein made and AMAZING offer to Time Warner Inc. to HONOR their Signed Contracts and to have control of this amazing technology, all they had to do was honor their contrats and work with the True Inventor and the Founder of Iviewit Technologies - Eliot Bernstein and WELL Time Warner Inc. DROPPED the Ball - Bigtime and seems to have Fired Curtis Lu over it..
SO How about YOU Philip Falcone - Harbinger Capital Partners maybe you want to Work with iViewit and Control this Technology the Legal Above Board way and TAKE it from all the Cable Companies, MPEG LA, Sony, Intel Corp., IBM, Intel, Verizon, Comcast, and all YOUR Competition.. Hmmm.. Now THERE's an Idea..
Wonder What the Wise Savvy Philip Falcone Will Do Next.....
This Technology is Worth Trillions and is used by most all cell phones, all cable companies, all video technology and WELL it's Rights are kind of up for grabs for WHOEVER works with Eliot Bernstein the Rightful Spokesman of the Iviewit Technology that they are ALL illegally Using.. Well this is the Kind of Investment that You can't miss on..
Well at Least Know This Investors, Shareholders - I have a Hard Copy of this Web Stat and it proves that Harbinger Capital Partners Offshore Manager, LLC - New York - IP # 63.116.60.124 Knows of the Massive Liability that Curtis Lu brings to Harbinger Capital Partners - So there you Have it.. Let me Know if you need it..
Iviewit WILL GET Justice..
Coming Soon to a Pocketbook NEAR YOU !!!
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Investigative Blogger
Industry Whistleblower
Crystal L. Cox
Crystal@CrystalCox.com