Viacom Earnings|Travel Channel|Ascend Media Liquidates|Bloomberg's BusinessWeek Plans|WebMediaBrands CEO Meckler
Wall Street Journal: Viacom, parent company of MTV Networks, reported its third quarter earnings today. Profit grew 15 percent due to cost-cutting, perhaps related to this summer’s layoffs at MTV?
New York Times: Scripps is reportedly close to closing its deal to buy the Travel Channel from Cox Communications.
Folio: B-to-b publisher Ascend Media has filed for Chapter 7 liquidation.
MediaWeek: Bloomberg unveils its plans for BusinessWeek: make it look more like The Economist and offer content for free “while creating deep, vertical content areas that paying users could access for roughly $100 a year.”
Business Insider: Alan Meckler, the CEO of mediabistro.com’s parent company WebMediaBrands, talks about plans to buy new blogs, and his plans for Mediabistro and Semantic Web.