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ABC.com Testing Multiple Commercials For Online TV Episodes - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 02 May 2008 04:43 AM PST

Disney-ABC Television Group plans to test viewer reaction to the presence of multiple commercials within long-form online videos on its ABC.com streaming media player, THR reports. It’s fairly standard for…

Earnings: Hearst-Argyle Q1 Digital Revenues Rise 22 Percent As Total Revs Drop 2.6 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 01 May 2008 05:15 AM PST

TV station owner Hearst-Argyle (NYSE: HTV) saw revenues decline 2.6 percent in Q1 to $165.1 million as the softening economy held back spending from automakers, the broadcaster’s largest ad category.…

Day And Date Movies Starting on iTunes; Warner Bros’ Will Do It For VOD and Online - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Apr 2008 11:40 PM PST

It was only a matter of, well, days, before day-and-date would arrive for the VOD and online release of movies, and it has: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is expected to announce…

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AT&T’s MediaFlo Mobile TV Service To Launch Next Week; Pricing Will Make It DOA - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Apr 2008 11:34 PM PST

AT&T (NYSE: T) Wireless will finally launch its much delayed mobile TV broadcasting service next week, and it has made all the necessary moves to make sure it never really…

The Box is the Box: Ambitious TV Startup Sezmi Slated To Launch - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Apr 2008 09:00 PM PST

If you are a regular and longtime reader, you would know I have written about the folly of startups trying to develop delivery boxes for TV, which sit on top…

@ EconSM: Traditional Media Companies Fight The ‘Lumbering Giant’ Tag - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 29 Apr 2008 02:00 PM PST

Lumbering giants of the past or the prime innovators of the moment? That was the question moderator and EconSM conference editorial director Elizabeth Osder put to a panel of old…

Broadband Content Bits: Nat Geo; Comcast, Verizon; MySpace-Entertainment Studios; MSN-Mediaset - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Tue 29 Apr 2008 11:03 AM PST

-- National Geographic Channel to unveil redesigned site: National Geographic Channel will officially launch its revamped web site today, featuring over 800 hours of video, 2,000 photos from its shows…

@ 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…

CBS, NBCU To Submit Bids For Weather Channel By Mid-May - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 29 Apr 2008 09:23 AM PST

As expected, NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) and CBS Corp (NYSE: CBS). are going to submit their bids to acquire cable network Weather Channel and its Weather.com site by mid-May, Reuters…

@ EconSM: Social Video Explosion: We Don’t Need Hits; Longform Can Work - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 29 Apr 2008 08:54 AM PST

Panel moderator Robert Scoble opened by asking our guests for an overview of the emerging social video space. Loic Le Meur, CEO of webcam video commenting startup Seesmic, said “about…

TVGuide.com’s Strange Ways: To Be Retained By Macrovision? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 28 Apr 2008 11:54 PM PST

So Macrovision’s (NSDQ: MVSN) buyout of Gemstar-TVGuide will go up for approval before shareholders tomorrow. As we reported before, the deal is expected to go through, as some of the…

Blockbuster In Talks To Take stake in New Premium CableCo; Wants Digital Rights: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 28 Apr 2008 10:28 PM PST

So Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) is desperate for a deal, any deal, any which way: after its strange proposal to buy CircuitCity (which will have a tough time going through) comes…

Warner Bros. TV Unveils Online Programming Slate; WB Gets Second Chance As Female-targeted Video Net - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 28 Apr 2008 11:00 AM PST

Although details slipped out about its broadband plans a few weeks ago, Warner Bros. TV Group is now prepared to say it’s resurrecting its WB Network TV brand as an…

Senate Commitee Rejects FCC Cross-Ownership Relaxation - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 24 Apr 2008 12:47 PM PST

Just as Rupert Murdoch’s play for Newsday brings media ownership regulations into the fore, a Senate panel has voted to reject recent moves by the FCC to relax cross-ownership rules.…

Earnings: Scripps’ Q1 Profits Rise 22.8 Percent As Revs Rise 6.8 Percent; Interactive Up 23 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 24 Apr 2008 05:03 AM PST

It looks like the sputtering ad economy didn’t affect Scripps (NYSE: SSP) too badly in Q1, as net income rose 22.8 percent to $84.1 million, or 51 cents per share,…

Studio JV: Former Showtime Exec Could Head Planned Premium Pay Service For Viacom-MGM-Lionsgate - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 22 Apr 2008 02:02 PM PST

This is beginning to sound like a plot for a premium channel series about rivalry in the entertainment biz ... Showtime vet Mark Greenberg could wind up running the studio…

Interview: Paul Rittenberg, SVP, Ad Sales, Fox News: Fox Fusion ‘Makes Sense’ Heading Into Upfront - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 21 Apr 2008 07:00 PM PST

When Paul Rittenberg, SVP of ad sales for Fox News Channel and Fox Business News, meets with media buyers to describe Fox Fusion this week, he’ll begin by telling them…

Warner Bros. TV Teams With Essence Magazine On New Site, Broadband-to-TV Plans - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 21 Apr 2008 11:00 AM PST

Warner Bros. TV Group is partnering with its Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) sibling Essence magazine on a series of online and broadcast moves, starting with a revamped, video-heavy website for…

Digital Studio Filmaka Leaves Beta And Awards User-Gens With Movie, TV Deals - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 21 Apr 2008 09:00 AM PST

After about a year and a half in beta, digital entertainment studio Filmaka finally leaves beta Monday. The studio, headed by Sandy Grushow, former chairman of Fox Television Entertainment Group,…

Gossip Girl Streams Pulled Off CW’s Site Due To, Well, Popularity; Cannibalization Fears - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 17 Apr 2008 11:01 PM PST

This could go down as the most bone-headed move from a TV network in 2008, or completely inconsequential: The CW network is pulling off its website the one show that…

NBCU Reopens Digital Studio With Branded Content In Mind; OMG Digital Named Strategic Partner - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 17 Apr 2008 11:18 AM PST

NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) has reformed its Digital Studio, which was shifted from the corporate side to the network side last year. The unit, which is charged with producing and…

Broadband Content Bits: Discovery’s Planet Green; TommyTV; Alicia in Africa; myLifetime - 1 Comment
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 17 Apr 2008 09:55 AM PST

-- Discovery’s Planet Green Launches Shows with TreeHugger.com to Blog in Tandem: In a bid to generate new media buzz before turning Discovery Home into Planet Green, Discovery’s Planet Green…

Disney’s SOAPnet Adds To The Ad Net Glut - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 15 Apr 2008 08:00 PM PST

Another day, another media company forms an ad network… Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) SOAPnet is the latest to start its own vertical ad net. Disney plans to announce Wednesday that the…

Comcast Adds On File- Sharing Tests And ‘P2P Bill Of Rights’ - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 15 Apr 2008 03:51 PM PST

A few weeks after Comcast’s (NSDQ: CMCSA) non-deal deal with BitTorrent on making the latter’s P2P apps run more smoothly for the cable operator’s broadband subs, the largest U.S. cable…

Industry Moves: Former Interpublic Media CEO Joins Spot Runner As President, Media Platforms - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 14 Apr 2008 10:55 PM PST

Spot Runner, the Los Angeles, CA-based firm which uses the web to help marketers buy TV ad spots, has been adding some heavy hitters to its executive roster. It recently…