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@ UBS Media Week: Sprint’s Hesse: Branding Campaign Helped Ease Customer Acquisition Issues

Acquisition of new customers has been a problem for Sprint (NYSE: S) since the merger with Nextel five years ago, admitted CEO Dan Hesse in…

by David Kaplan Dec 9, 2009 - 6:33 PM PST

When AOL (NYSE: TWX) CEO Tim Armstrong arrived at the company several months ago, he discovered its content and ad systems made up of a patc…

by David Kaplan Dec 9, 2009 - 3:25 PM PST

Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) CEO John Riccitiello was quite quotable during his UBS Media Week presentation — offering specifics on how EA…

by Tameka Kee Dec 9, 2009 - 2:22 PM PST

CBS (NYSE: CBS) Research head Dave Poltrack thanked UBS for letting him do his annual conference presentation on a Wednesday as opposed to h…

by David Kaplan Dec 9, 2009 - 1:05 PM PST

Maybe Ralph de la Vega would have delivered the same presentation to investors and analysts at the UBS Global Media and Communications Confe…

by Staci D. Kramer Dec 9, 2009 - 12:42 PM PST

As newspapers decide where to draw the paywalls, local media might have an easier time of figuring it out, said Journalism Online’s Gordon C…

by David Kaplan Dec 9, 2009 - 12:19 PM PST

Forecasters at today’s opening session at the UBS Media Week conference said that the magazine category would be down about 4.5 percent this…

by David Kaplan Dec 8, 2009 - 6:17 PM PST

The main message NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) president and CEO Janet Robinson wanted to get across to attendees at the UBS Media Week conference was h…

by David Kaplan Dec 8, 2009 - 2:03 PM PST

Reaction to the Comcast-NBCU deal dominated the early going today at UBS Media Week. Here is a selection of my Tweets from the conference. F…

by Staci D. Kramer Dec 7, 2009 - 4:08 PM PST

Just in case you haven’t heard enough about Comcast’s deal with GE to buy control of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), the sell job continues bright…

by Staci D. Kramer Dec 7, 2009 - 2:55 AM PST