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More bad economic news for biggies


January 29, 2009 Brace yourself for talk of worsening trends in ad sales and DVD revenue when the entertainment conglomerates report their final quarterly earnings for 2008. The film units of sector biggies had strong boxoffice finishes in 2008, but many face tough year-ago comparisons and have seen declining DVD sales. Last quarter, Disney missed consensus estimates for the first time under Bob Iger's four-year-plus tenure," Sanford Bernstein analyst Michael Nathanson said in a report titled "Has Reality Hit the Magic Kingdom?" "We forecast that there is a good likelihood of that happening again.

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