UK Gives Green Light To Fast Wireless Broadband Service, Free To All Comers
The UK is preparing to roll out a new, superfast mobile broadband service that would also more than double the amount of spectrum that is cu… Read more »
Gannett Expands Yahoo Ad Alliance To All Its Local TV Stations
A little over a year after Gannett (NYSE: GCI) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) teamed up on local ads sales primarily for the publisher’s 81 communit… Read more »
Google Crashes TV’s Edinburgh Party
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There are three things the TV executive audience have come to expect from the annual MacTaggart lecture: the pantomime of an inter-industry… Read more »
Schmidt Endears Google’s Boffins To TV
The Morning Lowdown 08-09-11
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» Why the Web’s New TV-Style Ratings Might Not Mean More Ad Buys (AdAge)
» The Onion’s CTO: Our paywall experiment i… Read more »
Yahoo Teams With Belo On TV Stations Display Sales
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) will expand its display ad sales deal with local TV station operator Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC) to 15 of the Dallas-based bro… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-08-11
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» News Corp.’s Soft Power in the U.S. (David Carr/NYT)
» 20% of the UK online population use iPlayer. Here’s how the… Read more »
Comcast’s Burke: NBCU Content ‘More Valuable’ Thanks To Retrans, Online
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Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) has had some success with NBCUniversal programming since it took control early this year — taking credit for greenlig… Read more »
Comcast Loses Video Subs But Revs Rise For Cable, NBCU
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Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) was unable to escape cable industry trends of basic video subscriber losses, though it did have some success in adding… Read more »
CBS Moonves: More Digital Streaming Deals Suggest More Gains In Q3
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CBS (NYSE: CBS) CEO Les Moonves began the call by touting the international expansion of its streaming video deal with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX),… Read more »
CBS’ Digital Streaming Helps Boost Entertainment Revenue
CBS’ entertainment revenues were up 10 percent in Q2, with much of the credit going to an April licensing deal for streaming video with Netf… Read more »
Citing Traffic Success, PBS Adds Pre-Roll, Considers UK Offering
U.S. viewers watched more than 145 million videos across all of PBS’s web and mobile platforms, making the non-profit broadcaster the 15th m… Read more »
Netflix Adds CBS, Showtime, CW Mix For Canada, Latin America
CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) are expanding their relationship with a new deal that goes both north and south of the U.S. border… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-27-11
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» Aegis Group is selling its market-research unit Synovate to France’s Ipsos for £525 million ($861.2 million) in a move that wi… Read more »
Fox Switches To Authentication For New Shows Online; Dish, Hulu Plus Get First Crack
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Counting on keeping up with Glee next season through next-day visits to Hulu.com or Fox.com? Count again — unless you subscribe through a v… Read more »
NBCU Builds Private Exchange, Reducing Use Of Third Party Networks
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NBCUniversal’s year-old Universal Audience Platform is morphing from an online ad network into a private ad exchange powered by supply side… Read more »
AP Archive To Be Used As Basis For Programming Series
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The Associated Press will be working with talent agency/marketing firm Madison Avenue Sports and Entertainment to develop content culled fro… Read more »
AP Promises More Credit To Member News Outlets: Memo & FAQ
The Associated Press is promising to change one of the more frustrating aspects of being part of a news co-op for some, particularly in this… Read more »
Updated: GetGlue Collects Its First UK TV Sticker, Signs Up Channel 4
GetGlue, the media “check-in” app that lets users share what they are watching, listening and reading with their social network, has inked a… Read more »
Amazon Beams Up CBS; Major Step In Instant Video Competition With Netflix
After Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) announced its new pricing scheme last week, comments started flowing about *Amazon* Prime Instant Video and its a… Read more »
Industry Moves: Upstream; LBi; Mediatonic; Globecast; IPC Media
– Upstream: Simon Negus is the new COO for mobile marketing company Upstream. He joins from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), where he had been a par… Read more »
Gannett: Focus Is On Growning Digital Business, Not Margins
With Gannett’s digital revenues reliably growing by double digits for the past year, analysts on the company’s Q2 earnings call noted that t… Read more »
BSkyB: Murdoch’s Role As Chairman Could Be Gone By The End Of The Week
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Up to now, the British pay-TV operator BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has continued to endorse James Murdoch as its chairman — despite the abandoned bid… Read more »
Tom Mockridge: Profile Of News International’s New Chief Executive
Tom Mockridge started his career as a national newspaper journalist working for the chief rival to Rupert Murdoch’s interests in Australia. Read more »
GOP Spectrum Bill Could Get Drawn Into Debt Fracas
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A draft GOP bill to auction off TV broadcast spectrum could become embroiled in the ongoing feud between President Obama and congressional R… Read more »
Netflix, NBCUniversal Extend Programming Deal But No More Next-Day ‘SNL’
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Programming from NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) and some NBCUniversal cable networks will stay on Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) under the terms of a new multi-yea… Read more »
James Murdoch To Stay On As BSkyB Chair After News Corp Abandons Bid
News Corp today walked away from its bid to buy out all shares in UK broadcaster BSkyB (NYSE: BSY), but one of its most senior executives wi… Read more »
Everyday Health Moves From Online To TV With Syndicated Series
Wellness news and info online network Everyday Health is getting its own TV program during the Saturday morning block following Good Morning… Read more »
NHL Hands Extensive Ad Sales Responsibilities Over To NBCU
NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Sports Group has struck a wide-ranging advertising deal with the National Hockey League that gives the Comcast-owned netwo… Read more »
BSkyB Shares Drop As Hunt Offers Regulators A Do-Over On News Corp. Deal
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Another major setback for News Corp in the UK today: Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, is sending back the media giant’s bid for broadcast… Read more »
Another Digital Twist to the NWS Drama: A Tell-All Blog By Ex-NOTW Journos
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News International is taking down its online paywall for the last edition of The News of the World on Sunday, July 10. But the scandal-ridde… Read more »
News Corp-BSkyB: ‘Fit & Proper’ Role Called Into Question On E-Mail Charge
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On the surface, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) appears to remain hopeful that its intended acquisition of the 61 percent of UK TV provider BSkyB (NYS… Read more »
Mid-Year Media Stock Review: Content Trumped Tech in First Half of 2011
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 »
One Life To Live & All My Children Find New Life Online. Will Fans Follow?
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 »
Blow for Big Media as Court Rejects FCC Bid to Relax Cross-Ownership Rules
Public interest groups and at least one FCC commissioner cheered on Thursday after a federal appeals court threw out part of the agency’s me… Read more »
Industry Moves: Turner/MySpace; thePlatform; Hotwire; Kirusa
– Turner Broadcasting: The company has confirmed that Anthony Lukom is VP and GM of UK and Ireland for Turner in Europe. He will lead the b… Read more »
Update 2: Hacked Off Public May Derail News Corp Over Dowler Scandal
The newest voicemail hacking scandal that has engulfed the UK tabloid News of the World was described by one commentator today as a “slow mo… Read more »
Comcast Winds Down NBCU Digital Studio; Online To Emphasize Current Shows
NBC Universal (NSDQ: CMCSA) Digital Studio, three-year-old unit charged with creating original web content, will cease operations over the n… Read more »
Univision Promotes Randy Falco To CEO
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Univision COO Randy Falco is now the Spanish-language network’s CEO, succeeding Joe Uva in the role. Uva, a veteran media buyer, stepped dow… Read more »
Meredith Broadens Focus On Food Content With EatingWell Acquisition
Meredith (NYSE: MDP) Corp.’s acquisition of EatingWell Media Group and its launch of tips and coupons food site Recipe.com this morning is… Read more »
