Major League Baseball postseason games will be available live online in U.S. for the first time, but there’s a catch and it’s, well… major. Access will be limited to 23…

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TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) has scored another legal victory in its battle against the Dish Network. The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Dish’s appeal on a $74 million penalty for violating…

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-- YouTube hosting first live event: YouTube announced it would host its first live event on Nov. 22 in San Francisco, mixing “elements of a concert, variety show and party.”…

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Even though Sony (NYSE: SNE), Paramount, Universal, Buena Vista and 20th Century Fox have all shuttered domestic operations in South Korea following years of sagging sales, Warner Bros. thinks it…

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-- FoxSports.com streaming Vuguru show; launching poker series: Michael Eisner’s digital studio has found a home for its latest offering, a—you guessed it—comedy series called Back On Topps, Mediaweek reports.…

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NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) claims it streamed at least 12 million hours of Olympics content across its digital platforms—HD, broadband, mobile VOD and interactive television. Some of the highlights: --…

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Joost just soft-launched its long-awaited in-browser version. It’s throwing several errors (see the red bar in the screen grab) and crashed my browser eight times in a row but, with…

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After going over the new fall shows, Les Moonves, CBS Corp.’s (NYSE: CBS) president and CEO, offered words of praise for DVRs and TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO), claiming that video-on-demand hasn’t…

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Had a chance to talk with JB Perrette by phone as he left San Francisco for NBCU’s leadership meetings in LA. Perrette, president of digital distribution, said the deal that…

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With recent expansion of the deal between DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) and TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO), the DVR wars are ramping up. Now, after past struggles, AT&T (NYSE: T) is rolling out…

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TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) may have prevailed in its patent lawsuit against the Dish Network, but investors appeared concerned after a federal judge declined to rule on the DVR company’s request…

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TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) and DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) are expanding their existing partnership and are planning to launch a new high-def VOD service called HD DirecTV DVR. The two will collaborate…

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Great lessons in usability ... Almost as soon as Rafat posted about the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, we started getting queries from people who couldn’t figure out how…

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The National Basketball Association hopes to start live streaming in-market games this season—a no-brainer for some and a major headache for others. The NBA, which takes pride in trying to…

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-- Katie Couric anchoring *CBS* web specials: Katie Couric will anchor live web exclusives from the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions, scheduled to air right after the primetime coverage…

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Poring over entertainment companies Q2 earnings results, NYP identifies a sharp divide in the way the studios are starting to regard the push toward releasing movies for same day DVD…

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So perhaps internet video isn’t doing that much damage to traditional TV viewing after all. Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board (BARB), the UK’s official TV audience measurement body, said today that…

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UK VOD JV Kangaroo, which was already facing an antitrust inquiry of six months before even launching, is now being delayed by a further month - because the trio behind…

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Updated: The Miva board has rejected this bid, “following careful review and consideration”, the company said in a statement. The board said that it “believes that blinkx’s proposal significantly undervalues…

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The FCC lambasted Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) for blocking traffic from some P2P users and evading its official position on the matter in a long awaited and 3-2 split ruling today.…

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At industry events, TV network execs often stress that streamed versions of their broadcast programs are additive and not cannibalistic. But a report from audience tracker Integrated Media Measurement Inc.…

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This falls into the Casablanca category as in the police captain being “shocked” to find gambling going on at Rick’s ... Netflix is closing its nascent Red Envelope Entertainment unit…

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Russia’s third-placed search and portal operator Rambler is to launch a major TV and movie site - described to me as a “Russian Hulu” - as the basis of its…

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TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) is expanding its relationship with Amazon on a promise to deliver what marketers have long hoped for: allowing TV viewers to make purchases of products displayed within…

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-- Jaman announces distribution deal with Paramount: Jaman.com has just inked a deal with Paramount Digital Entertainment, in which many of the studio’s movies, including Beowulf, Sweeney Todd: The Demon…

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