-- Joost-WMG: Joost has another significant content deal, this time with Warner Music Group. The video service, still in beta, will produce multiple WMG channels, programmed either by genre, label…

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Turner Sports’ Play ON adds to its subscription sites with the launch today of USL Live ; the first game streams Friday. That’s USL as in United Soccer League; it…

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Masters’ Stats: So last month, a CBS spokesman carefully explained to me why the network wouldn’t release detailed metrics for March Madness on Demand—because the network doesn’t provide the numbers…

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A few months after gaining full control of Court TV, Turner Broadcasting is remaking the network in its image with a new look, logo, name—the works based on extensive research.…

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The WSJ is reporting that a deal in the works for more than a year has finally concluded with an agreement for the former to acquire the Atlanta Braves. It’s…

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Turner Broadcasting gets its turn in the WSJ spotlight, more specifically the hard-working New Products group headed by David Rudolph. (Rudolph thought up Turner’s clever grits-niche network, Turner South.) Successful…

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Comcast continues its programming shift online, raising the possibility of becoming a major national online player beyond its own high-speed subs. Gameinvasion.net, previously for Comcast HSD subs only. is now…

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Our veteran guest blogger David Eckoff is in New York this week for the Eighth Annual Sports Media & Technology Conference and will keep us posted. To open the conference,…

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A year after launch, Xbox 360 comes closer to fulfilling expectations of a living room media center with the addition of movie rentals and TV downloads through Xbox Live Marketplace.…

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During the 3Q earnings call, Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons and COO Jeff Bewkes each tried to dampen speculation that AOL is for sale. Parsons called AOL “a core asset”…

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Time Warner managed to disappoint investors in the third quarter even though net income more than doubled. The media conglomerate also reaffirmed its earnings guidance Net income was $2.3 billion,…

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So what if the effort of sister company Time Inc to target the youth male market through Office Pirates didn’t work...Time Warner-owned Turner Broadcasting is going to have another go…

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In the midst of the wheeling and dealing at Digital Hollywood and Forbes MEET, one of the most interesting tidbits I picked up this week came from a different direction.…

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ViTrue, an Atlanta-based startup which provides technology to enable user-generated advertising campaigns, has received funding from Comcast Interactive Capital and Turner Broadcasting....the funding amount was not disclosed but was in…

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Steve Koonin, who has been running Turner’s TBS and TNT, is the new president of Turner Entertainment, promoted from EVP and COO of the two networks. He adds Court TV…

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Shhhh ... don’t tell anyone but here’s another example of two Time Warner sibs working together. A sample of Turner Broadcasting’s GameTap—nine classic games and GameTap video—is being offered in…

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Turner Broadcasting: Greg Foster, who joined Turner when the company acquired Southern Direct, has been appointed VP-corporate Development and is heading Turner New Media Investments. The team, responsible “for guiding…

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-- Turner Sports New Media Pacts With PGA Tour: The PGA Tour and Turner Sports New Media have agreed to a multi-year online and mobile deal. Turner, which already had…

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Since Turner’s VeryFunnyAds.com opened for business Aug. 23, the video site has delivered more than 7 million streams of, well, funny ads to more than 900,000 unique visitors. These aren’t…

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We went into Turner Broadcasting’s plans for its DramaVision broadband player and TNT.tv channels at length earlier this week ... here are a few more details on the advertising side…

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Warner’s Turner Broadcasting is making a big push into broadband with the Aug. 15 launch of TNT’s DramaVision player featuring ad-free on-demand streaming of Steven Spielberg’s six-part miniseries “Into The…

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A busy morning for Time Warner—earnings, new free broadband strategy for AOL, unwinding Time Warner’s partnership with Comcast, and more. We’ll detail the changes at AOL in other posts. On…

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Another Time Warner outlet is trying for a video splash this week as CNN launches CNN Exchange for user-gen video and audio. CNN has been soliciting and using viewer contributions…

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Revver, one of the video sharing sites which adds ads with the clips uploaded and shares revenues with the creators, has expanded its second round from an earlier $8.7 million…

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Ad Execs: Online Video Has Little Impact On Upfront TV Ad Plans: Despite the hype, two-thirds of the 140 ad execs surveyed by the American Advertising Federation said online video…

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