The New York Times Company (NYT) has been keeping pace with the changing times by utilizing technological advancements to reach their target audience more effectively.

Amid an overall bull market, many stocks that smart money investors were collectively bullish on surged through the end of November. Among them, Facebook and Microsoft ranked among the top 3 picks and these stocks gained 54% and 51% respectively. Our research shows that most of the stocks that smart money likes historically generate strong […]

Custom Zoom backgrounds prevent you from having to show off the same boring wall, messy apartment or kid-caused chaos in every meeting. And if you grew up on BBC shows like “Doctor Who,” “EastEnders,” and “BlackAdder,” you can now bring nostalgia to your conf…

If you want to watch movies online with your friends, the pandemic has brought us some options.Read more...

Grupo Televisa said on Tuesday it would consider its legal options after talks with U.S. firm Live Nation Entertainment failed to reach an accord over the latter's decision to pull out of a deal with the Mexican broadcaster. Last July, Televisa said it had agreed to sell its stake in Mexican entertainment firm Ocesa to Live Nation for around $290 million as part of the U.S. company's acquisition of 51% of Ocesa. Televisa held 40% of Ocesa and Mexican entertainment firm Corporacion Interamericana de Entretenimiento (CIE) around 11%.

Forget trying to find the perfect desktop wallpaper. Now that everyone’s using Zoom—or one of the many Zoom alternatives—it’s all about picking the right virtual background. Swapping in one of Zoom’s built-in backgrounds might’ve elicited a chuckle back when …

World Wrestling Entertainment's (WWE) fourth-quarter revenues increase year over year. Notably, higher revenues at the Media segment contribute to the company's top line.

With me either present here at our offices or remotely are the heads of our three key business segments; Salvi Folch, CEO of Cable; Alex Penna, CEO of Sky; Patricio Wills, Chair of Televisa Studios; and Carlos Ferreiro, Antonio Lara, Corporate Vice Presidents of Finance and Administration, respectively. Let me start with the obvious.

HBO’s newest streaming service, HBO Max, officially launches in just a few weeks. When it arrives on May 27th it will join HBO Go and HBO Now in HBO’s lineup. Yes, that means you have three different streaming options to access HBO content.Read more...

If anyone was going to be the best at social distancing while also simultaneously keeping all their friends happy and connected, it would be Leslie Knope.Read more...

Quibi’s novel approach to short-form content was intended to set it apart from the likes of Netflix, YouTube and Hulu, but it’s had a bit of a rough start; turns out a time when no one is commuting is not the time to launch a commute-friendly mobile-only stre…

We hate to say this but, we told you so. On February 27th we published an article with the title Recession is Imminent: We Need A Travel Ban NOW and predicted a US recession when the S&P 500 Index was trading at the 3150 level. We also told you to short the market and buy […]

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Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has assigned a B2 rating to Univision Communications, Inc.'s (Univision) new $360 million senior secured notes due 2025. Concurrently, Moody's affirmed Univision's B2 corporate family rating (CFR), it's B2-PD Probability of Default Rating (PDR) and the B2 rating on Univision's senior secured debt.

Think back to the last time you were in an airport, waiting for your plane to board. (Remember airports? Remember flying?) You may have noticed a TV screen above the gate counter filled with a list of passenger names and heard a flight attendant calling those…

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NASCAR officially made its in-person return last weekend, and Sunday it’s holding another race: the iconic Coca-Cola 600, its third over the past 8 days.Read more...

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Comedian and author Samantha Irby joins us this week on The Upgrade to talk about how to make yourself comfortable with self-quarantine. This includes finding the right TV shows to binge-watch (she has a recommendation or two), the right books to escape with,…

World Wrestling Entertainment's (WWE) first-quarter revenues increase year over year. Notably, higher revenues at the Media segment contribute to the company's top line.

Grupo Televisa (TV) is like having CBS, Comcast and 21st Century Fox tied together in one package; the company is the seventh-largest Mexican stock by market value with a stock in a nice uptrend, but far below earlier highs, notes Carl Delfeld, editor of Cabot Global Stocks Explorer.

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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday his government was ready to mediate in a dispute between the owners of airline Interjet and broadcaster Televisa when asked about the financial health of the Mexican carrier. Last weekend, Mexican media reported that judges had ordered bank accounts of the Aleman family, which controls Interjet, to be seized due to a dispute over outstanding debts to broadcaster Televisa relating to the purchase of radio stations. Interjet responded by issuing a statement saying that its accounts had not been seized and that it was operating normally.

Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. ("Televisa" or the "Company", NYSE:TV; BMV:TLEVISA CPO) announced today that, for a second consecutive year, it has been selected as one of only five Mexican companies to be included in the 2020 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI). With this, Bloomberg recognizes Televisa's commitment to advancing gender equality and its continuous effort to build a diverse workforce that promotes an inclusive culture.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 was supposed to be in the middle of a live tour right now. Since the pandemic has postponed that, along with pretty much everything else, for the time being, the creators have decided to take things online.Read more...

Two investment firms are buying a majority stake in Univision, the largest U.S. Spanish-language broadcaster, the company said Tuesday. The firms, Searchlight Capital Partners and ForgeLight LLC, will buy a 64% stake in the broadcaster from current Univision owners. Grupo Televisa SAB ADR (NYSE: TV) will retain a 36% interest in the broadcaster.

Like other sports, in-person NASCAR races have been canceled for several months. In their place, the organization has been doing virtual races where the drivers race using a simulation rather than behind the wheel of actual cars . Today; however, NASCAR is ba…

Mexican broadcaster Grupo Televisa won an injunction against Walt Disney Co's acquisition of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc's assets in Mexico, but Mexico's market regulator said on Thursday that the ruling would not stall the deal. Televisa said the court had ordered the regulator, the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) to review its claim that the merger would create an "illegal concentration" in the Mexican broadcast market. "We are very pleased that the federal judiciary has ordered a full review of the merger in light of the arguments we presented almost a year ago," Televisa said in a statement.

Rating Action: Moody's changes the outlook to negative on some Mexican companies, affirms global and national scale ratings. Global Credit Research- 20 Apr 2020. Mexico, April 20, 2020-- Moody's de Mexico ...

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One of my housemates hit me with a quirky question this weekend: Netflix, which had previously been working just fine on his TV, was no longer loading. Everything else about the TV worked fine, but Netflix just kept cycling through connection attempt after co…

New York, April 20, 2020 -- Moody's Investors Service, ("Moody's") has changed the outlook to negative from stable and affirmed the ratings on some non-financial companies operating in Mexico. The rating actions follow the downgrade of the Government of Mexico's ratings to Baa1 from A3 and the maintenance of a negative outlook, on 17 April 2020. For more information, please see "Moody's downgrades Mexico's ratings to Baa1; maintains negative outlook" available at https://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-downgrades-Mexicos-ratings-to-Baa1-maintains-negative-outlook--PR_422013.

While NASCAR, like all other sports, is on hold right now, Sunday you have the opportunity to watch a virtual race, where professional stock car racers hop into simulators rather than actual cars to compete.Read more...

If you’ve been working from home during the shutdown, the past eight weeks have probably felt twice as busy and stressful as usual. After all, you’ve had the difficult task of staying productive while learning new tools, figuring out how to communicate with r…

Today was the original date for the Kentucky Derby. While the actual event has been rescheduled for September, a number of Derby-related activities are happening this weekend including a mint julep course from the Master Distiller at Woodford Reserve, a virtu…

An Insignia Fire TV, a pair of Apple AirPods Pro, XBOX gift cards, a sale on Cole Haan sandals, Google Nest Wifi, and a sale at DermStore lead Thursday’s best deals.Read more...

Grupo Televisa (TV) saw a big move last session, as its shares jumped more than 5% on the day, amid huge volumes.

The New York Times Company (NYT) has been diversifying business, adding new revenue streams, realigning cost structure and streamlining operations to increase efficiencies.

Stephen Colbert, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey and more are expected to make appearances tonight in the “Feeding America Comedy Special,” a benefit for Feeding America.Read more...