Opponents fight coastal adult shops.
Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard NEWPORT - They've been mooned. Jeered. Once, someone threw a full cup of soda, with ice. But protesters who have since January held a vigil outside the Spice Adult Video Superstore on Highway 101 say they will not be daunted...

CBS-Viacom and the Effects of Media Mergers: An Economic Perspective.
I. INTRODUCTION Like other large-scale mergers between media corporations, the proposed CBS-Viacom combination has attracted a great deal of public attention. It immediately rose to the top of the national news agenda when announced in September 1999, and congressional hearings followed on October 28.(1) The merger plan...

Taxing behavior: personal vices have been around a long time. But the price for those habits and other controversial behaviors is about to go up.
What do individual behaviors and state tax policy have in common? Plenty, as it turns out. People who smoke or chew pay excise taxes on tobacco. The same is true for people who quaff a beer, drink a martini or sip a glass of wine instead of...

Loschian spatial competition in an emerging retail industry.
Loschian competition is traditionally thought to lead to a spatial equilibrium in which firms enter an industry and disperse across geographic space until each firm earns insufficient excess profit to attract net new entrants. This paper assesses the appropriateness of Loschian analysis using video (movie) rental establishments in Toronto...

Building a DVD library--the Warner way: the Warner Home Video backlist, with more than a dozen of the American Film Institute's 100 Best American Films, is a treasure trove for collectors. (Entertainment).
THE DVD REVOLUTION may have reached the point where it can be said to have conquered VHS as the dominant home video medium. Already, major studios are announcing that many of their new releases will be exclusively in DVD format, and numerous rifles on their backlists will soon become...

Remote controlled.
VIEWERS BEWARE: ACCORDING to Hollywood; if you've ever hit fast forward on a VCR or used the mute button on a TV, you're a thief. "Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots," Jamie Kellner, the CEO of Turner Broadcasting,...

Hollywood studios to start selling films online.
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Hollywood studios will start selling digital versions of films such as ``Brokeback Mountain'' and ``King Kong'' on the Internet this week, the first time major movies have been available online to own. The films can't be burned onto a disc for viewing on...

The great digital switch: in the coming technological revolution, will there be space for the common good?
When color television became popular in the 1960s, you could still use your old black-and-white set. When CDs took over the recorded music market in the 1980s, your vinyl would still play on your turntable. And while you can get only DVDs at Blockbuster or Netflix, your collection of...

Blockbuster and the USO Team for DVD and Game Drive.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-7 July 2008-Blockbuster and the USO Team for DVD and Game Drive(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Blockbuster and the USO are teaming up to bring entertainment to U.S. service members and their families. Through July 14, the groups noted, the American public can show...

EMA Honors Hastings.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-27 June 2008-EMA Honors Hastings(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Hastings Entertainment has been awarded the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) 2008 Retailer of the Year in the Chain Specialist Category. EMA's Retailer of the Year Awards recognizes companies that set the standard for excellence in...