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• Tech Gains Boost Nasdaq; Airlines Rise Tuesday, 29 Apr 2008 | 5:04 PM ET

  Stocks closed mixed in thin trading Tuesday as the tide turned in technology's favor. Airline stocks rose as oil prices receded. Merck skidded after an FDA rejection.

• CBS Needs Growth, Not Dividend Boost Tuesday, 29 Apr 2008 | 3:28 PM ET

  Cramer called the media firm a "wasting asset."

• CBS Earnings: Why They Came Out As Well As They Did Tuesday, 29 Apr 2008 | 1:08 PM ET

  

  CBS stock has been beaten down over the past year--down some 30 percent. But today the stock is up on the company's better than expected quarterly results. And good news for shareholders, CBS spacer raised its quarterly dividend from 25 cents per share to 27 cents per share.

• CBS Earnings Beat Forecasts, Raises Dividend Tuesday, 29 Apr 2008 | 8:08 AM ET

  CBS reported a greater-than-expected rise in earnings on Tuesday, helped by healthier results from its television business, and boosted its dividend by 8 percent.

• CBS Earnings Preview: Hoping for Good Reception Monday, 28 Apr 2008 | 1:52 PM ET

  

  Ratings could be better, so could the economy and advertising spending. What is CBS doing to halt the tumble in it stock price? Stay tuned.

• Week Ahead: Watch the Fed -- And a Lot More Friday, 25 Apr 2008 | 7:16 PM ET

  You may think it's all about the Fed in the week ahead, but other key economic news will keep the markets on edge. Data to watch includes first quarter GDP Wednesday; Friday's jobs report for April; another big rush of corporate earnings reports, including from big oil and media companies. Other economic data: consumer confidence for April, released Tuesday, and the S&P Case Shiller report on housing prices.

• Must-See TV Trades Friday, 25 Apr 2008 | 6:13 PM ET

  Earnings season turns the spotlight on Time Warner, Viacom and other big media names next week. How should you trade it?

• Paramount Ready to End Movie Sales to Showtime Monday, 21 Apr 2008 | 1:39 PM ET

  

  Paramount said it would join forces with two other studios, MGM and Lionsgate, to introduce a premium channel and video-on-demand service beginning in the fall of 2009

• Viacom And CBS Break Final Ties--But Was It All Necessary? Monday, 21 Apr 2008 | 1:32 PM ET

  

  Ever since media mogul Sumner Redstone split Viacom and CBS into two separate companies (he's chairman of both), they've become increasingly competitive. And just this Sunday, Viacom's Paramount Pictures studio said it's no longer going to distribute movies to CBS' Showtime.

• Media Malaise Thursday, 17 Apr 2008 | 7:16 PM ET

  Media companies are floundering as investors fear recession and, more importantly, the unknown implications of the digital age. Are there buying opportunities amid the rubble?

• Peter Gabriel And The Filter: "Searching" Your Mind For Web Hits Tuesday, 15 Apr 2008 | 3:24 PM ET

  Talk about a great couple of days last week: Wednesday into Wednesday night, I get to hang out with Bon Jovi during their Silicon Valley visit for a story on the technology the band uses in its show.

• Couric May Exit CBS News Before Contract Ends: WSJ Wednesday, 9 Apr 2008 | 9:35 PM ET

  

  The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed CBS News executives and people close to Katie Couric, said on Wednesday she could leave her job as anchor of the "CBS Evening News" well before her contract expires in 2011.

• Adobe's New Media Player: Will It Play With Users? Wednesday, 9 Apr 2008 | 4:31 PM ET

  

  Today, Adobe unveiled its new media player with the idea of tapping into the market for online video that's been growing by double digits year-over-year. The key to this new player? It works online and offline, and it's based on Adobe's new "Air" technology that works with any platform, Mac or PC.

• CBS May Start to Use CNN Reporting Tuesday, 8 Apr 2008 | 4:55 AM ET

  CBS, the home of the most celebrated news division in broadcasting, has been in discussions with Time Warner about a deal to outsource some of its news-gathering operations to CNN, two executives briefed on the matter said Monday.

• NBC Seeks Buzz With Early Release of Fall Line-Up Tuesday, 1 Apr 2008 | 2:25 PM ET

  When NBC Universal presents next season's television schedule Wednesday, it will do so six weeks ahead of the other major U.S. networks, providing its new prime-time shows with an added shot of publicity and buzz.

• CBS Glad There's No NCAA Cinderella, And UNC Is UA School? Monday, 31 Mar 2008 | 11:15 AM ET

  

  Sentimental people might have been hoping for Davidson to pull out the upset last night, but CBS really wanted to Kansas. Why? Because Cinderellas don't draw. We have the proof.

• Political TV Ads: New Tech Makes Them Affordable Monday, 31 Mar 2008 | 8:26 AM ET

  TV advertising is considered the most effective way to reach the masses. But until now it's only been accessible to those with hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend. But that's in the past Thanks to a new technology from ad innovator Spotrunner, candidates in every one of the 500,000 elections this year--no matter how small--will be able to buy TV ads.

• Google's New Ad Tool: What Exactly Does It Mean For Industry? Monday, 24 Mar 2008 | 4:49 PM ET

  Online advertising is the fastest-growing segment of the ad industry. Standard offerings like TV commercial and print ads are all trying to keep advertisers interested, but it's online ads that are measurable, offering complete accountability.

• Cable Companies Making News And Making Deals? Thursday, 20 Mar 2008 | 3:55 PM ET

  I met up with several Wall Street analysts last night and everyone was talking about cable properties being on fire. Everyone taking a close look at the cable entities driving the media giants--like ESPN--and the ones now on the auction block.

• Getting in The Game Thursday, 20 Mar 2008 | 10:16 AM ET

  

  College basketball fans are not the only ones going mad this March, advertisers are too.