Is Piers Morgan Becoming Baggage For CNN?
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If CNN wants an incisive big-name interviewer, it should consider hiring Robert Jay QC, who put Piers Morgan through a far tougher interview… Read more »
'Time Shifting' Is Replacing 'Real Time'
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Nearly three short years ago, the buzz word du jour in tech was “realtime”. Real time discovery. Real time search. Real time serendipity. Th… Read more »
Cox Media Group Plants $6 Million In Content Farm Skyword
Broadcasting, publishing and marketing group Cox Media Group is putting down some more roots in digital media investments: it has announced… Read more »
News Corp./Time Warner's Prince Alwaleed Invests $300 Million In Twitter
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TW… Read more »
The Albert Pujols Deal Shows What's Wrong With The Pay TV Business
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When baseball great Albert Pujols signed a staggering 10-year, $254 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim last week, he became… Read more »
MSLO And J.C. Penney Bake Up A Strategic Deal That Actually Makes Sense
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Some “strategic” investments and partnerships leave you scratching your head looking for the rationale — and questioning the viability of a… Read more »
Facebook's Video Views Rising, But Mostly For Discovery
Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video – but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social netw… Read more »
Boxee's Latest Cord-Cutter Tool: A Cable Set-Top Box 'Stick'
While much of the reason behind cable-subscriber losses have largely been related to the poor housing market and the weak economy, even larg… Read more »
Borrell: After Two Years Of No Growth, Local Ad Spend Will Spike In 2012
The local online ad marketplace has experienced two years of fairly flat revenues, but Borrell Associates says that the space is on the verg… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-15-11
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» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Launches iTunes Match, But Puts Temporary Hold On New Subscriptions (paidContent)
» Gartner: And… Read more »
pC Entertainment Video: Dawn Ostroff On Digital Dollars, CW & Condé Nast
How did The CW wind up mining digital gold for CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Warner Bros.? (NYSE: TWX) Former network head Dawn Ostroff detailed the s… Read more »
AP Begins HD Video News Rollout With Entertainment
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The Associated Press is launching its high-definition AP Entertainment news service as part a “multi-million” dollar upgrade that will make… Read more »
Iger: NBA Strike Won't Hurt ESPN; This Is The 'Pre-Season' Of Digital Video
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The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) pulled in a pretty solid fiscal 2011 and FY Q4, but a number of challenges have emerged that could threaten… Read more »
Disney Interactive Media Narrows Loss On Higher Revenue
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The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) beat the street on revenue and earnings for the quarter ending Oct. 1, led by its cable networks and theme p… Read more »
What Twitter's Latest Move Means For Other Social TV Players
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As social TV emerges as something beyond an experiment for advertisers and TV networks, Twitter is eager to take a bigger role in connecting… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-08-11
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» NYT Digital Head Martin Nisenholtz Retiring; Won’t Be Replaced; (paidContent; paidContent)
» New York Times (NYSE:… Read more »
@ pcE11: Tercek: The Content Is The Container
Robert Tercek, the former MTV exec and ex-president, Digital Media of Discovery’s OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, closed paidContent Enterta… Read more »
@ pcE11: CBS' Lanzone: If You Want Our Content, You'll Have To Pay — A Lot
CBS (NYSE: CBS) has taken what Jim Lanzone, president of CBS Interactive, calls “a pragmatic path” in terms of distributing streamed videos… Read more »
@ pcE11: Dawn Ostroff: Streaming Is Better Than DVRs For Advertising
Veteran TV exec Dawn Ostroff has only been in her job as the head of Condé Nast’s new entertainment unit for three weeks, so it made sense… Read more »
BT Vision Becomes Fastest-Growing Pay-TV Service
BT (NYSE: BT) Vision has become the fastest-growing pay-TV service in the UK, adding more customers in a quarter than BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) for… Read more »
CW Cuts Another Streaming Deal: Current Season Shows To Hulu, Hulu Plus
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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 »
Anthony Rose’s Social TV Startup Zeebox Is Now Live
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The TV engagement product co-founded by ex BBC iPlayer chief Anthony Rose launched on Thursday evening to ride the booming trend in two-scre… Read more »
Comcast Moves NBCU Local’s Shopping Guide To DailyCandy
A year after NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Universal’s local division launched shopping guide network The Feast, the property is being handed over to it… Read more »
In Fight Over DVD Window, Warner Bros Cuts Off Blockbuster From New Films
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Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) has refused to give DVD rentals chain Blockbuster (NSDQ: DISH) its latest films, including The Hangover Part II and… Read more »
As Cable TV News Wars Heat Up, Bloomberg Builds ‘Live TV’ Placement On iPad
Bloomberg may still be battling with Comcast over better placement on its cable systems, but the financial news and information company is l… Read more »
Cox Digital Teams With AppNexus On Ad-Bidding Platform
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Cox Digital Solutions, the online sales arm of broadcast and newspaper owner Cox Enterprises, is the latest media company to turn to ad exch… Read more »
Murdoch Faces Fire At Shareholders Meeting With Contrition And Amusement
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Rupert Murdoch received the grilling he had expected at News Corp.’s shareholders meeting and was more than prepared in remarks that offered… Read more »
Nielsen: Nearly Half Of Americans Are Watching Online Video
One of the reasons online video is the fastest growing ad segment is because nearly half of all Americans are watching some form of streamin… Read more »
Gannett’s Digital Revenues Gain, As Profits, Circ Shrink
Gannett’s profits slipped a bit due to the economic weakness, a sign of tougher times for newspaper publishers in general as the Q3 earnings… Read more »
Gannett Shuttering MomsLikeMe Network, Deleting Everything
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Gannett’s MomsLikeMe hyperlocal parenting network will cease operating on Friday and its 100-plus town-specific sites will go dark and the c… Read more »
Discovery Brings In NBCU’s JB Perrette To Run Digital
It’s been over a year since Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) had a dedicated executive at the very top to oversee digital operations,… Read more »
BBC Cuts: Nearly 2,000 Jobs To Go
The BBC will axe nearly 2,000 jobs as it looks to save £670m a year in long-awaited cost-cutting plans announced on Thursday morning. Read more »
S4C Urged To Improve ‘Crude’ Digital Strategy
Welsh-language broadcaster S4C must make significant corporate changes to turn around an online record that is weak, crude and years behind… Read more »
NPR Turns To Public TV Vet Gary Knell As New CEO
Seven months after Vivian Schiller was ousted as president and CEO of NPR, the public radio network has turned to a public broadcast veteran… Read more »
E.W. Scripps Looks To Streamline Digital Operations With Reorg
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With digital revenues across E.W. Scripps’ newspaper and television divisions sometimes offering an incomplete picture, the company has deci… Read more »
Everyday Health Puts Ex-ABC News Digital Head Slavin In Charge Of Video
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 »
Kantar: Ad Spending Still Growing, But Recovery Is In Jeopardy
While most large ad budgets have been locked in for the next few months, unless there is a miraculous and quick economic turnaround, the ad… Read more »
Where Are SeeSaw’s Missing Millions?
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The TV-VOD rollercoaster that is SeeSaw is still waiting for an overdue promised investment to arrive. But it will likely need to cut costs… Read more »
T-Mobile, Orange Reboot Their Mobile TV Services In UK
Mobile TV has for years been one of the great white hopes for mobile operators looking for new lines of revenue from their data networks –… Read more »
MobiTV Files For $75 Million IPO To Fund Its Growth [Video]
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 »
