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Howard Stringer To Retire From Sony In June

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday March 8, 2013 @ 7:37pm PSTTags: Sir Howard Stringer, Sony Corp

Sir Howard Stringer, 71, says he will step down at Sony’s annual shareholder meeting and made the announcement in a speech at the Japan Society in New York. Kazuo Hirai, 52 and former head of the PlayStation unit, succeeded him as CEO almost a year ago. Stringer was put in place in June 2005 and under his watch the once great Sony has fallen behind Samsung in manufacturing and Apple in creativity. Now Hirai is trying to save the company by cutting costs and selling assets. Whether Sony’s Culver City entertainment studio will be one of those assets shed now remains a subject of much speculation especially with Stringer’s departure finalized for June. Hirai has denied speculation that Sony could sell the entertainment divisions. Stringer said he would pursue “new opportunities I’ve been presented with lately”. Stringer is also chairman of the American Film Institute. Stringer came from Sony’s entertainment arm and pointed to the company’s movie, TV and music businesses as “models of stable and innovative leadership and consistently profitable”.

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AFI Awards: Hollywood Power Players Turn Out For A Moment Of Sanity During Oscar Season Madness

By PETE HAMMOND | Saturday January 12, 2013 @ 10:59am PSTTags: AFI, AFI Awards, American Film Institute, Amy Pascal, Ben Affleck, Daniel Day-Lewis, Silver Linings Playbook, Sir Howard Stringer, Steven Spielberg
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Between the roller-coaster ride of Thursday’s 85th Academy Award Nominations and Critics Choice Awards and this weekend’s Golden Globes mania, Friday’s annual AFI Awards Luncheon was not only a breath of fresh air in this busy season. … Read More »

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Barry Diller’s Oscar Weekend Mogul Picnic

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday February 27, 2011 @ 12:19am PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Barry Diller, Graydon Carter, Moguls, Oprah Winfrey, Oscar Parties, Sir Howard Stringer, Steve Burke NBC Universal

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Sure, every Oscar weekend there are the Friday night agency parties — Ari Emanuel’s WME fete, and Jim Berkus” UTA party for the Coen Brothers, and Bryan Lourd’s CAA … Read More »

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‘Jeopardy’ Ratings Soar With IBM Challenge; Howard Stringer, Sam Palmisano Make Bet

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 16, 2011 @ 10:20am PSTTags: Sir Howard Stringer, TV, TV Ratings
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Jeopardy‘s three-day Man vs. Machine series, which pits the show’s most successful contestants, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter against IBM’s new supercomputer Watson, is drawing big ratings. Day 2 of the stint last night posted a 9.6 overnight household … Read More »

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Sony Seeks New President To Solve Howard Stringer Successor Issue

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday November 25, 2010 @ 3:19am PSTTags: Sir Howard Stringer, Sir Howard Stringer Sony, Sony

It was a surprise when Sony named a non-Japanese and a non-engineer, Howard Stringer, as Chairman/CEO in 2005. Then Stringer took on the president’s job in 2009 after ousting Ryoji Chubachi. Now Bloomberg is reporting on private talk that the … Read More »

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NATAS Announces Technology And Engineering Emmy Winners

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 25, 2010 @ 8:23am PDTTags: Emmy, Sir Howard Stringer, Sir Howard Stringer Sony, TV, TV Technology
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New York, NY – October 25, 2010 — The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) announced the recipients of the 62nd Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards that will take place on Thursday, January 6th, 2011 as part of the 2011 International CES in Las Vegas.

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Don’t Cry For Blu-Ray DVD, Sir Howie…

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday March 11, 2008 @ 5:21pm PDTTags: Blu-ray, DVDs, Finance, Sir Howard Stringer, Tech, Wall Street

howard_stringer_small.jpgFor a long time Sony’s Sir Howard Stringer was depressed over the Blu-ray vs HD-DVD format war. Then he was happy when he won. Now he might frown again. Because Wal-Mart is scaling back its sale of low-cost DVDs and predictions … Read More »

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