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Where's the media in Ascent Media?
March 17, 2011Martha Entwistle
PALM BEACH, Fla.—The media in Ascent Media—the new owner of Monitronics—is really limited to the company name. That was one of the messages from Bill Fitzgerald, chairman of the board of Ascent Media Corporation, at the Barnes Buchanan conference here in February.
He got some laughs from the conference crowd when he said: “You're looking at me and thinking 'Here come the cable guys again.'”
In some ways, Fitzgerald said, the crowd was right to think that. After all,...