ABC is going to offer iOS users in New York and Philadelphia a 24-hour live stream of its programming this week. It’s the first time a broadcaster has embraced live streaming. Read more »
It’s now common practice for canceled shows to find their way to fans via digital means, but there’s a big difference between uploading unaired episodes and truly coming back to life. Read more »
To the frustration of consumers now used to digital distribution, the TV industry stubbornly refuses to unbundle its expensive channel packages. The CEO of upstart Aereo explains why he is taking them on. Read more at GigaOM »
Upstart Aereo is taking on the TV industry from a single floor in Brooklyn where it has stuffed thousands of tiny antennas and top notch transcoders and servers. Here’s a primer on how it works — plus some pictures from the inside. Read more at GigaOM »
We crunched data from the last 12 years to examine UK newspaper and website readership. Here is what the results say about the future of online news. Read more »
Profits were up across the board in the second quarter, with ESPN, ABC, Disneyland and The Avengers all making money for the conglomerate. Read more »
Remember when Friendster was the hot social network, publishers doubted that ebooks would ever sell, and Netflix thought DVDs in red envelopes was the future? We do — that was that state of digital media when paidContent launched in 2002. Read more »
This new weekly feature tells the backstory of how one e-book became a bestseller, and highlights bestselling titles that are selling more copies in digital than in print. This week: A book that plays itself on TV. Read more »
Aereo, the controversial technology that turns iPhones and iPads into portable TV sets and DVRs, will not disappear anytime soon despite eff… Read more »
Say this about TV Everywhere — it’s not making the complicated world of TV video streaming any easier to figure out. On Tuesday, cable netw… Read more »
In its war with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Amazon’s Lovefilm has licensed U.S. TV shows from ABC (NYSE: DIS) Studios through Disney UK under the… Read more »
A range of on-demand viewing options — and some new platforms to watch that content on — has traditional television watching on the run, r… Read more »
Six Hollywood studios have urged the UK’s competition watchdog to throw out its assertion their Sky Movies deals are anti-competitive. But s… Read more »
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Xfinity TV subscribers stymied by the lack of access to iPad app WatchESPN have relief in sight: a new multi-year, cro… Read more »
It’s a wild world these days at the intersection of traditional television business models and all the new ways that people are consuming co… Read more »
In last week’s earnings call, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) said it will continue to push hard into streaming video. Now, in a new licensing deal with… Read more »
Gossip Girl is headed to Hulu Plus. On the heels of a past-season, library deal with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) that could be worth as much as $1… Read more »
Updated: As generalist news sites face a tougher time crafting a distinct identity, and content sharing partnerships tend to be lopsided in… Read more »
The new virtual home of All My Children and One Life To Live has a name and a launch target. Prospect Park partners Rich Frank and Jeff Kwat… Read more »
I don’t know many video subscribers — TV or or streaming — who make decisions based on whether or not their package includes Shrek 2. But… Read more »
Netflix’s decision to divide its DVD and streaming operations is being treated as a joke and a shot in the foot by some observers.
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Wellness news and info online network Everyday Health has been working on expanding its video content to TV for a while and it now has exec… Read more »
Big news for mobile TV pioneer MobiTV: the company has filed for an IPO worth up to $75 million, as it looks for funds to expand internation… Read more »
Hulu’s first offering outside the U.S. is live: Hulu Japan, a subscription service with “hundreds” of films and thousands of hours of TV. Fo… Read more »
When a section was cut from Stanford mathematics professor Keith Devlin’s new book The Man Of Numbers, Devlin could have pitched it as an ar… Read more »
Wellness news and info online network Everyday Health is getting its own TV program during the Saturday morning block following Good Morning… Read more »
Turns out content was king during the first half of 2011, as CBS (NYSE: CBS), Comcast/NBCU (NSDQ: CMCSA), and News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) posted s… Read more »
Soap opera addicts with good broadband can breathe a sigh of relief: ABC (NYSE: DIS) has licensed All My Children and One Life to Live, whic… Read more »
So-called “Flash cookies” got some headlines in the online privacy world last year, after some prominent researchers noted that they were so… Read more »
The numbers are coming in on just how many people tuned in to watch the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton. While some are highly s… Read more »
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In a surprising move, AOL (NYSE: AOL) vet Joe Ruffolo has been picked by Ben Sherwood as the new SVP of ABC (NYSE: DIS) News Digital, paidCo… Read more »
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The clock has been ticking for Paul Slavin at ABC (NYSE: DIS) News since it was clear that he wouldn’t get the top job following David Westi… Read more »
Former *ABC* News President David Westin is joining the Associated Press to manage the News Licensing Group, the wire service’s digital righ… Read more »
» When SB Nation head Jim Bankoff was at AOL (NYSE: AOL) in 2005, he helped manage the acquisition of Endgaget — now he’s brough… Read more »
The Weather Channel has joined the growing list of TV networks issuing free apps that offer content synchronized to the TV. The Peter Lik Co… Read more »
What makes the runaway train that is Charlie Sheen so difficult for CBS (NYSE: CBS) to manage is that he delivers too much value to simply s… Read more »
It figures an Academy Awards that opened with co-host James Franco walking on stage with an iPhone in hand–with which he promptly tweeted–… Read more »
If you restricted your intake of the Academy Awards to the TV, that’s a shame. Oscar.com offered a rocky, though highly promising, ride to t… Read more »
