Sun Valley Media Mogulfest Roll-Call
Mogul stalking is the way of the “Bizzerazzi” – journos covering the prestigious Allen & Co. Sun Valley Media Summit. Below, a roll call on current attendees and missed attendees. The general lesson: difficult year to run a media co, potential need for further consolidation (a la Weinstein Co and potential Liberty Media investment) and spin-outs (a la Time Warner/AOL), Twitter-”It”-is yet need for paid online subscriptions for content, and much less access for journalists.
Who’s Who 2009 @ Sun Valley – Name (Company):
Lebron James (Cavaliers’ small forward), Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Sergey Brin, Larry Page + Eric Schmidt (Google), Rupert + James and Lachlan Murdoch (News Corp.), Bob Iger (Disney), Sir Howard Stringer (Sony), Jeffrey Immelt (GE), Leslie Moonves + Quincy Smith (CBS), Owen Van Natta (MySpace), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Chase Carey (Fox), John Malone + Greg Maffei (Liberty), Rob Wiesenthal (Sony), Evan Williams (Twitter, “Sun Valley It-Boy”), Tom Freston (Firefly3; advising OWN/Oprah net), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Rich Rosenblatt (Demand Media), Peter Chernin (former News Corp.), Steve Burke (Comcast), Brad Grey (Paramount), Jean-Bernard Levy (Vivendi), Bobby Kotick (Activision), Hank Vigil (Microsoft), Barry Diller (IAC), Marc Andreessen + Gina Bianchini (Ning, Andreessen Horowitz $300M fund). More after the jump…