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...profit margins high--as much as 50%, according to Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen. By 2008, Cohen projects, the business will grow to $3.9 billion annually. The biggest beneficiaries: Time Warner, which owns HBO, Warner Bros. and New Line (and this magazine); Viacom, with its Paramount and MTV divisions; and 20th Century Fox, which is mostly owned by News Corp. Big-name actors like James Gandolfini of The Sopranos and Dave Chappelle of Chappelle's Show are grabbing for a bigger piece of the DVD pie during contract negotiations. --By Barbara Kiviat
...recorded episodes of varying lengths made by people ranging from experienced pros to wannabe DJs. They can be listened to on your computer whenever you please or downloaded to your iPod or similar MP3 player and enjoyed while you drive to work, jog or cook dinner. Championed by former MTV VJ Adam Curry, who created iPodder.org and launched his first podcast in August 2004, the idea has snowballed and there are now more than a thousand podcasters. The content could use an upgrade, but at least there's variety. Podcasts range over such topics as religion (see godcast.org), filmmaking (skinnybones.net...
...back-up New Year's Eve date has some network competition. After 33 years of freezing his buns off in Times Square, ABC stalwart DICK CLARK will face a challenge from the next generation's overgrown teenager, CARSON DALY. Daly, who used to ring in the New Year for MTV, will host a new broadcast for NBC, home to his late-night talk show Last Call with Carson Daly. Apparently Daly prefers working on New Year's Eve. Last year, "I was in St. Bart's," he says. "I was watching Puffy dance on a table...
...recorded episodes of varying length made by people ranging from experienced pros to wannabe DJs. They can be listened to on your computer whenever you please or downloaded to your iPod or similar MP3 player and enjoyed while you drive to work, jog or cook dinner. Championed by former MTV VJ Adam Curry, who created iPodder.org and launched his first podcast in August 2004, the idea has snowballed, and there are now more than a thousand podcasters. The content could use an upgrade, but at least there's variety. Podcasts range over such topics as religion (see godcast.org) filmmaking skinnybones.net...
...video channel into one of the most powerful global media brands, Judy McGrath, 51, has always stayed in touch with what she likes to call her "inner teen." Now that she has taken over the reins at all of parent company Viacom's vast, fast-growing cable operations, including MTV, MTV2, VH-1, CMT, Nickelodeon, TV Land and Comedy Central, you might think she would need to get more in tune with her outer adult. But being responsible for the crown jewel of Sumner Redstone's empire--generating nearly $3 billion in profits this year alone and reaching 400 million...