Two days after CBS announced its primetime programming would be available online 24 hours after airtime, the network announced that the “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric”—debuting Sept. 5— will…

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Hollywood’s unions play the role of last to know in network online streaming scenarios. This time CBS left the DGA, SAG and WGA out of the networks’ plans for next-day…

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Starting in September, CBS prime-time programs will be on its ad-supported broadband channel Innertube...episodes will be posted the morning following their initial TV broadcast. The shows available: CSI, CSI:Miami, CSI:…

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When Google and Viacom announced their video ad trial and download deal last week, I asked a spokesman if that meant the search company had been forgiven for scarfing up…

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George Kliavkoff’s move to chief digital officer at NBCU has set off a game of musical execs ... Kenneth Gersh will succeed Kliavkoff as the top business development exec at…

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On the heels of tough reports from analysts Richard Greenfield and Aryeh Bourkoff, both the NYT and the WSJ (sub. req.) picked this weekend to examine the deconstruction of Viacom…

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The big BBC restructuring plan is coming today, at 10 AM GMT...part of the plan includes the merger of the production and TV divisions under director of TV Jana Bennett,…

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-- Comedy Central, TV Land Surf at TCA: MTVN’s nets Comedy Central and TV Land broke with press tour tradition by emphasizing broadband. TV Land detailed plans for its broadband…

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CBS is partnering with Amazon and its on-demand DVD subsidiary CustomFlix Labs for custom DVDs of CBS News clips. Customers can pick up to 10 segments or 90 minutes of…

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CBS will have more flexibility with off-network content—downloads, VOD, streaming, etc.— under the terms of a revenue-sharing agreement with the network’s affiliates. Technically, what they’ve done is agreed to agree,…

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Meredith Stark has been appointed VP and executive producer of CNBC.com, effective immediately. Stark joins CNBC from Gartner, Inc., where she was group VP-product platforms most recently and GVP/EP-web production…

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An interesting opportunity for AOL to expand brand awareness ... KOL, aka AOL for kids, and DIC Entertainment are teaming up to co-produce “KOL’s Saturday Morning Secret Slumber Party on…

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So is the word from USAT, even though the site is not yet online: CBS’s digital arm is launching a new website focused on entertainment news and pop culture, called…

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Today’s announcement that CBS was adding primetime programming—including “CSI” and “Survivor”—to iTunes made me wonder what happened to the network’s Google Video deal. Turns out that deal could be in…

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Judging from various reports, CBS CEO Leslie Moonves’s message to affiliates at the annual meeting in Las Vegas this week followed much along the lines of his recent upfront comments—content…

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Updated below to include CBS-AOL-Burnett deal: When I asked someone at CBS about the role digital might play in the upfront, the response suggested CBS didn’t have to make a…

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ABC has shifted gears—at least public gears—and will include four affiliates in the two-month streaming video trial that began May 1. One station each for Belo (WFAA, Dallas), Hearst-Argyle (WISN,…

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Not a lot to look at yet. Three featured pieces to start—“Geek To Chic” (13:231), “Beyond Survivor” (4:11), “Survivor Live” (55:55). One new segment will be posted every weekday. (A…

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Yes, it’s true. Broadband will breathe some life into “Love Monkey” ... the show that couldn’t last on the air will reprise on new CBS broadband channel innertube. Episodes will…

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CBS is supposed to launch a broadband channel today, with an eye on ad upfronts in two week...the channel will have mainly original content, with some material connected to programming…

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Last week, I mentioned looking for a link to a striking promo video from CBS4.com aired at NAB. The video shows tech reporter Dave Malkoff explaining the various ways CBS4…

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CBS reported lower Q1 profits compared with a year ago, before it had split up with Viacom. On a comparable basis, earnings were flat as better results from outdoor advertising…

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The first appearance by Vivian Schiller since her appointment at GM of NYTimes.com was announced yesterday ... Other panelists include Jonathan Lees, president/GM, CBS Television Stations Digital Media Group; David…

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From MIPTV: MSN has tied up with with Mark Burnett Productions to show one of three weekly episodes of the summer reality TV series RockStar on its site. MSN will…

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An interview I did on MocoNews.net, in advance of CTIA, with Cyriac Roeding, the VP heading CBS’s mobile content efforts. It seems as if CBS has suddenly come out of…

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