The line of celebrity appearances this week at the Consumer Electronics Show, where media companies were once sidelined, tracked deals by Time Warner’s AOL, General Electric’s NBC Universal, Viacom’s MTV, note Reuters reporters Kenneth Li and Daisuke Wakabayashi.
Media companies, have “always been observers in Las Vegas,” said Leo Hindery, managing partner of InterMedia Partners, a private equity firm specializing in media, and former CEO of cable operator AT&T Broadband, referring to programmers’ outside status at the gadget show. This year, media’s “credentials are just as important as Google’s and the guys who make the devices,” Hindery added.
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