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2003
year mood -0.18 · -0.50 to +0.12 across 12 mo
Monthly mood
bearish −1 +1 bullish
-0.5 -0.25 0 +0.25 +0.5 Jan -0.50 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct +0.12 Nov Dec
month values ▾
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
-0.50-0.40-0.40+0.09-0.30-0.20-0.20-0.10-0.10+0.12-0.10-0.10

Healing off the bottom: Fed at 1%, market bottomed in March, survivors consolidated and ad markets slowly recovered. Still negative but steadily improving.

How this mood is scored ▾
Each day the model reads that day's news for the sector and asks, as someone who owns assets or makes their living in it: how am I feeling this month, and why? The month's mood is that running answer, tied to the specific events driving it (the story shown above). It leans on trusted, higher-impact reporting, and on the prior month when a month is quiet, so one loud headline can't swing it. The read updates daily through the month; once a month ends, its mood is locked. This year is read live from the news the pipeline actually collected (hover a bar for its story count). · last computed Jul 11, 2026
Top communication stories of 2003
Apr
News Corp to acquire controlling stake in DirecTV for $6.6 billion deseret.com →

News Corp. is acquiring a 34% controlling stake in Hughes Electronics, parent of DirecTV, from General Motors and public shareholders in a $6.6 billion cash and stock deal. The acquisition, pending regulatory approval, will expand News Corp.'s U.S. pay-TV footprint and intensify competition in the cable market, with Rupert Murdoch assuming chairmanship of Hughes.

Oct
GE and Vivendi Universal agree to merge NBC with Universal to form NBC Universal tampabay.com →

General Electric agreed to combine its NBC television network with Vivendi Universal's film studio, cable channels and theme parks, valuing the entertainment assets at about $14 billion. GE would own 80% of the new NBC Universal, with Vivendi retaining roughly 20%, and pay about $3.65 billion in cash at closing. Completed in May 2004, the deal created one of the world's largest media companies.