Comments on: Time Warner Dumping Its Magazines? Not So Fast.

By: Time Inc.’s Magazines Get Less Bad, With Some Help From People | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:41:30 +0000

[...] Well, that is, by magazine standards: Revenue was flat in Q4, aided in large part by People magazine. (Now you can see why the Time Warner executive I talked to last year said it was hard to see the company dumping that title in particular.) [...]

By: Fighting Words! Time Warner Says NBC/Comcast As Dumb As… Time Warner/AOL | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:18:27 +0000

[...] other reiteration news, Bewkes also said, again, that he doesn’t plan on selling his Time Inc. publishing unit. Though he left himself a tiny window of wiggling room by noting that “no public company can [...]

By: Here Are the Conde Nast Cuts: Modern Bride, Elegant Bride, Gourmet, Cookie Closing | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:12:00 +0000

[...] wouldn’t expect this to be the last big set of magazine cuts, by the way: Time Warner (TWX), for instance, has made it clear that it wants to hang on to Time Inc., but that it thinks the publisher employs too many people to produce too many [...]

By: Time Warner’s $4.2 Billion AOL Fire Sale | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:29:04 +0000

[...] people who think Time Warner is likely to sell off its publishing Time Inc publishing unit. I hear otherwise, but this will be interesting to [...]

By: Huey Sheridan

Huey Sheridan — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:29:12 +0000

It’s nice that the company is making money from publishing, but the ultimate question is really whether these concerns actually add value to the Time-Warner share price.

I see little evidence that they do – indeed a spin-off would probably unlock a lot of value as the new independent publishing company would be an attractive investment.

By: Will Time Warner sell Time magazine? | DAILYMAIL

Will Time Warner sell Time magazine? | DAILYMAIL — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:36:59 +0000

[...] Peter Kafka of All Things Digital suggests that Crawford might not be right: “[H]ere’s the thing: The body language from Time Warner executives in recent months makes [...]

By: Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:01:58 +0000

Oh, I don’t think it’s implausible. As of a few months ago, I was one of the people who thought it was going to happen. But the grunts, murmurs and comments I’m hearing from Columbus Circle make me think that’s not the case now.

Addendum: As readers have pointed out in response to an earlier post on this topic, “Time Warner to dump Time Inc” is a notion that has come up over and over again, for years. That doesn’t mean it won’t happen some day, just that it hasn’t so far.

By: robert boynton

robert boynton — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:40:16 +0000

You’re right, that would be as crazy as a company headquartered in the Time-Life Building killing Life magazine. It’ll never happen.

By: Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:03:14 +0000

Nope. But I can’t imagine that’s the driver here. Anyone with accounting expertise want to weigh in?

By: Will Time Warner sell Time magazine? | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog

Will Time Warner sell Time magazine? | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:32:34 +0000

[...] Peter Kafka of All Things Digital suggests that Crawford might not be right: “[H]ere’s the thing: The body language from Time Warner executives in recent months makes [...]

By: Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Philip Elmer-DeWitt — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:10:00 +0000

Has you looked into the capital gains taxes involved selling a business that began in 1923?

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Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:22:35 +0000

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