Media Week Wire: Discovery’s Future; AOL Community; XM-Sirius

David Zaslav: Make Digital Revenue Meaningful: Future Discovery Networks CEO David Zaslav: “We need to create a great opportunity to reach users on all platforms … If Bravo can’t figure out how to be a place to go for hip, cultural content, someone else is going to figure it out in their garage. … We need to make digital revenue meaningful.” By the way, he likes DVRs.”
Time Warner Sees AOL’s Future as an Ad Server: COO Jeff Bewkes: “AOL used to lead in [community] and we gave it up to some others we all could name. We want to go back. We’ve got 115 million unique users so there’s no reason we shouldn’t be a leader.”
XM: No basis for regulatory hurdles if merger: XK Chairman Gary Parsons doesn’t see regulatory barriers to a merger with Sirius but he also said there’s no urgency. Retail sales look weaker for XM a year after Howard Stern’s move gave sat radio a boost.

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