purse: 40% purse: 60%
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MAYWEATHER/PACQUIAO BRINGS FOES HBO AND SHOWTIME INTO THE SAME RING
STATOFTHEWEEK $63 MILLION Nielsen’s first-quarter net income, up 7% from $58 million a year ago.
ON MAY 2, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao’s much-anticipated boxing match in Las Vegas is expected to generate a record purse estimated at $300$500 million, with Mayweather getting 60% and Pacquiao 40%. With PPV fees approaching $100, HBO and Showtime are hoping to cash in on the action, partnering for the first time since Mike Tyson (whose fights were carried by Showtime) took on Lennox Lewis (HBO) in 2002. B&C takes a look at the TV tale of the tape.
HBO
Network
Showtime
Manny Pacquiao
Fighter
Floyd Mayweather
57-5-2
Record
47-0
Ken Hershman Jim Lampley
PURSE: 40%
Sports chief Top Talent
COMCAST/TWC: BIGGER ISPS ARE NOT BETTER FROM FCC chairman Tom Wheeler to President Obama to exiting Attorney General Eric Holder, the message has been sent throughout the land: If, as they have suggested, ISPs are the potential snake in the virtuous garden of broadband, a bigger snake is not better. That appeared to be the takeaway from the free fall of the Comcast/ TWC merger last week, after both DOJ and the FCC signaled the deal should not go through. Comcast pulled the plug, but only when it was clear DOJ would sue to block the deal and the FCC could find no conditions that would suffice, not even apparently extending network neutrality conditions as a hedge against a third court loss. —John Eggerton
Stephen Espinoza Al Bernstein
Vegas’ MGM Grand, site of the fight, has set up a ring in its lobby to promote the event.
PURSE: 60%
To find out what FCC chairman Tom Wheeler thought of the merger and more, go to broadcastingcable.com/April27.
B&C ’S WOMEN OF NEW YORK THE INDUSTRY’S LEADING LADIES—and men, too—converged in New York last week for the fifth annual Women of New York event on April 21. This year’s festivities featured a keynote session with Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez and panels Take the Lead and Race, Ethnicity & TV.
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Boxing inset: Dade Hayes; WONY: Heather Wines/CBS
1) Gina Rodriguez (left), star of The CW’s Jane the Virgin, with CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller, who moderated Rodriguez’ keynote Q&A at the event. 2) Take the Lead panelists (from left): Moderator and Inside Edition anchor Deborah Norville; Brooke Johnson, president, Food Network and Cooking Channel; Geri Wang, president, ABC Sales; Marianne Gambelli, chief investment officer, Horizon Media; and Jennifer Caserta, president and general manager, IFC. 3) Race, Ethnicity & TV panelists (from left): Lisa Hsia, executive VP, digital, Bravo and Oxygen Media; Chrystee Pharris, star of Pop’s Queens of Drama; Lisa WilliamsFauntroy, senior VP, business and legal affairs, Discovery Communications; and Superna Kalle, consultant.
BROADCASTINGCABLE.COM
4/24/15 4:39 PM
MAYWEATHER/PACQUIAO BRINGS FOES HBO AND SHOWTIME INTO THE SAME RING
STATOFTHEWEEK $63 MILLION Nielsen’s first-quarter net income, up 7% from $58 million a year ago.
ON MAY 2, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao’s much-anticipated boxing match in Las Vegas is expected to generate a record purse estimated at $300$500 million, with Mayweather getting 60% and Pacquiao 40%. With PPV fees approaching $100, HBO and Showtime are hoping to cash in on the action, partnering for the first time since Mike Tyson (whose fights were carried by Showtime) took on Lennox Lewis (HBO) in 2002. B&C takes a look at the TV tale of the tape.
HBO
Network
Showtime
Manny Pacquiao
Fighter
Floyd Mayweather
57-5-2
Record
47-0
Ken Hershman Jim Lampley
PURSE: 40%
Sports chief Top Talent
COMCAST/TWC: BIGGER ISPS ARE NOT BETTER FROM FCC chairman Tom Wheeler to President Obama to exiting Attorney General Eric Holder, the message has been sent throughout the land: If, as they have suggested, ISPs are the potential snake in the virtuous garden of broadband, a bigger snake is not better. That appeared to be the takeaway from the free fall of the Comcast/ TWC merger last week, after both DOJ and the FCC signaled the deal should not go through. Comcast pulled the plug, but only when it was clear DOJ would sue to block the deal and the FCC could find no conditions that would suffice, not even apparently extending network neutrality conditions as a hedge against a third court loss. —John Eggerton
Stephen Espinoza Al Bernstein
Vegas’ MGM Grand, site of the fight, has set up a ring in its lobby to promote the event.
PURSE: 60%
To find out what FCC chairman Tom Wheeler thought of the merger and more, go to broadcastingcable.com/April27.
B&C ’S WOMEN OF NEW YORK THE INDUSTRY’S LEADING LADIES—and men, too—converged in New York last week for the fifth annual Women of New York event on April 21. This year’s festivities featured a keynote session with Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez and panels Take the Lead and Race, Ethnicity & TV.
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BROADCASTING & CABLE
0404_Community.indd 29
A P R I L 2 7, 2 0 1 5
3
1
2 For more photos from the Women of New York event, log on to broadcastingcable.com/April27.
Boxing inset: Dade Hayes; WONY: Heather Wines/CBS
1) Gina Rodriguez (left), star of The CW’s Jane the Virgin, with CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller, who moderated Rodriguez’ keynote Q&A at the event. 2) Take the Lead panelists (from left): Moderator and Inside Edition anchor Deborah Norville; Brooke Johnson, president, Food Network and Cooking Channel; Geri Wang, president, ABC Sales; Marianne Gambelli, chief investment officer, Horizon Media; and Jennifer Caserta, president and general manager, IFC. 3) Race, Ethnicity & TV panelists (from left): Lisa Hsia, executive VP, digital, Bravo and Oxygen Media; Chrystee Pharris, star of Pop’s Queens of Drama; Lisa WilliamsFauntroy, senior VP, business and legal affairs, Discovery Communications; and Superna Kalle, consultant.
BROADCASTINGCABLE.COM
4/24/15 4:39 PM
