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Broadband Content Bits: SNL Political; Entertainment Rights; MTVN;; CSG-National Lampoon - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Sun 11 May 2008 05:41 PM PST

-- NBCU launches Saturday Night Live politics minisite: SNL still doesn’t have a real contender for Obama impressions but it does have ”SNL Politics”, newly launched with all the usual…

Industry Moves: Aegis Media; Facebook; MTV; Tribune - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Sun 11 May 2008 04:54 PM PST

-- Aegis Media: Mainardo de Nardis has stepped down from his role as CEO and will be succeeded by Jerry Buhlmann, who also joins the board June 2. Buhlmann has…

@ MTV Upfront: Jon Stewart On The Big Ad Show: ‘I Thought We Don’t Do These Anymore’ - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 08 May 2008 01:06 PM PST

MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) is bringing out as many diverse stars as possible for what is nevertheless considered a more scaled down upfront presentation this year. Justin Timberlake, Samuel…

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@ EconSM: MTVN’s Social Media Challenge: Growing Digital Revenues - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 29 Apr 2008 10:26 AM PST

Alluding to Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA) decision to pass on buying MySpace, Staci D. Kramer, co-editor/EVP for paidContent parent ContentNext Media, asked a panel of MTV Network executives about missed opportunities…

MTV’s Rock Band Video Game Preps Full Album Download Sales - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 18 Apr 2008 10:11 AM PST

Having proved that it can sell individual song downloads in the millions after only five months in operation, MTVN’s (NYSE: VIA) Rock Band video game will begin selling full-length albums…

Nickelodeon Expands Virtual Worlds; ‘Hybrid’ Choice of Ad-Support, Paid Subs Coming In ‘09 - 4 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 03 Apr 2008 04:46 AM PST

As Nickelodeon continues its gaming and virtual world expansion, we have some more details about the three virtual world sites now in development and plans to introduce a choice of…

Paramount Pictures Is Making A Play In Games - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 28 Mar 2008 09:45 AM PST

Paramount Pictures said this year it will be expanding its interactive department to publish video games, focusing in particular on casual, handheld and mobile games, according to Variety. The studio,…

SouthParkStudios.com Relaunches With Free Full-Length Episodes - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 26 Mar 2008 10:04 AM PST

South Park fans can binge on 12 seasons worth of Kenny and the gang—free of charge and, for now, free of ads now ad-supported, courtesy of the latest remake of…

Forbes Plans 400-Member Financial Ad Network; Viacom Forming Ad Nets For Music, Male Lifestyle - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Sun 23 Mar 2008 08:28 PM PST

Forbes Inc. has ambitious plans for an ad network with about 400 financial blogs as members, according to AP. The financial news media company is expected to release more details…

Interview: Steve Youngwood, EVP, Digital Media, MTVN Kids And Family: 1,600 Games For ‘08 - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 20 Mar 2008 08:44 AM PST

Earlier this week, Nickelodeon said that it was developing 600 new games. Now the MTVN (NYSE: VIA) unit is clarifying things a bit: it will host 1,600 new games across…

Nickelodeon’s Game Plan: 600 Casual Games Being Developed; 185 Games Planned For Nick.com Alone - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 17 Mar 2008 02:32 PM PST

MTV Networks’ (NYSE: VIA) Nickelodeon is readying the first of 600 casual games that will be introduced across its collection of websites, NYT reports. The games are part of the…

John Sykes Leaving MTV Networks; His Broadband Projects Went Nowhere - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 13 Mar 2008 01:01 AM PST

We missed this earlier: John Sykes, one of the original executives who launched MTV more than 25 years ago, is leaving the company, to pursue other options. He had been…

10-K Watch: RealNetwork’s Call/Put Rights With Rhapsody America JV With MTVN - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 02 Mar 2008 02:55 PM PST

RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) filed its 10-K annual report last week with SEC, and some numbers on the layoffs it did in relation to its WiderThan acquisitions, and some layoffs in…

10-K Watch: Viacom: Harmonix’s Possible Rock Band Earnout Bounty: $208.7 Million In ‘07 - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 29 Feb 2008 06:22 PM PST

Buried within Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA) 10-K annual report filed yesterday with SEC is an interesting and elusive number: the earnout that the developers of Guitar Hero and Rock Band will…

‘Jackass’ Makes Its Return--Online - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 21 Feb 2008 04:49 PM PST

Jackass, the MTV show where its stars willingly, even eagerly, place mousetraps on their extremities, endure charges from electrodes placed on various body parts and take paint ball blows in…

MTVN Acquires Site Network Babunga To Build Parenting-based Ad Net Around Nickelodeon - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Sun 17 Feb 2008 10:14 PM PST

MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) has acquired Babunga, a company which owns a network of family-focused websites, Mediaweek reported. Babunga’s sites, which include BabyNamesWorld, 3D Pregnancy, WikiParenting and PetNamesWorld, will be…

More Changes At MTVN: MTV President Christina Norman Leaving - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 07 Feb 2008 05:22 PM PST

Christina Norman, president of MTV since 2005 and an MTVN vet of 17 years, is leaving the Viacom unit at the end of the month. Van Toffler, president of MTV…

In Other News: RealNetworks Lays Off About 10 Employees In Music Division: Confirmed - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 01 Feb 2008 12:30 PM PST

Updated: Has been confirmed by RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) music PR...offices affected are Seattle, New York and San Francisco. These layoffs happened two weeks ago, and affects about 10 people, not…

Broadband Content Bits: AppleTV; mtvU; Break Media - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 30 Jan 2008 09:46 PM PST

-- AppleTV rental software postponed: Apple announced the software upgrade that will allow AppleTV to handle movie rentals, along with built-in music store, access to Flickr photostreams and .Mac Web…

NATPE Interview: Greg Clayman, EVP Of Digital, MTVN: What’s Working In Mobile This Year - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Jan 2008 01:45 PM PST

At NATPE yesterday, I spoke to Greg Clayman, EVP, Digital Distribution & Business Development, MTV, who overlooks all of MTVN’s mobile businesses. He moderated a panel on what’s working in…

Broadband Content Bits: CBS Interactive; Disney Channel-Taiwan; MySpace, MTV And AP - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 28 Jan 2008 03:09 PM PST

-- *CBS Interactive* gets official Grammy role: The digital arm of CBS (NYSE: CBS) has been named the official online partner of The Recording Academy to distribute Grammy-related assets from…

Broadband Content Bits: MTVN; YouNewsTV; Reuters-Newscom; YouTube - 2 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 25 Jan 2008 02:23 PM PST

-- MTVN’s LogoOnline unveils vlogs: MTVN’s (NYSE: VIA) LogoOnline has created 15 video blogs that the MTVN unit plans to run on its federated sites and distribution network, which includes…

MTV Networks Closes Flux User-Gen TV Channel in UK After 16 Months - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Jan 2008 04:21 PM PST

MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) is closing down its Flux TV channel in UK, about 16 months after it launched there...it will be replaced by a one-hour timeshift of MTV One…

MTVN’s Rock Band Is A Hit With 2.5 Million Song Downloads - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 18 Jan 2008 10:42 AM PST

With the pared-down Grammys providing another downer for an already beleaguered industry, this dose of optimism may help: After just eight weeks since its release, MTV’s video game Rock Band…

Updated: Hirschorn Leaves Viacom, VH1 To Launch Own Production House; First Looks To MTV Music, Logo - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 17 Jan 2008 12:35 PM PST

Who knew when Inside.com’s bubble popped it would lead to a hot cable career for co-founder Michael Hirschorn? (Rafat and I worked for Hirschorn at Inside.) He joined VH1 in…