CBS Serves More Than 1.2 Million March Madness Feeds In First Five Hours; So Far, So Good
CBS (NYSE: CBS) risked its sports and digital reputations on being able to deliver a seamless, online viewing experience for March Madness.… Read more »
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CBS’s NCAA March Madness Day One Numbers: 268,000 Simultaneous Streams
By Rafat Ali
Staci will have more on this later, but some preliminary numbers on the March Madeness games streaming which started today online: CBS says… Read more »
March Madness: CBS Already Ahead Of Last Year’s Sub-only Online Package
Last year, roughly 25,000 people paid CSTV.com $19.95 for live streaming of March Madness. It didn’t cover the cost of licensing the tourney… Read more »
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CBS Will Sell Condensed, Full-length Versions Of March Madness Games On iTunes
Call it March Money Madness. CBS is pulling out the stops to make new media money with the NCAA Div.1 men’s basketball tournament. In additi… Read more »
CBS Sues Stern, Agent, Sirius Over On-Air Publicity
CBS CEO Les Moonves continues his search for new revenue streams by suing Howard Stern, the former radio star’s agent and the satellite radi… Read more »
Networks Grapple With YouTube; CBS’s Turn
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More On News Corp, CBS, Viacom Mobile Deals
The NYT headlines did what News Corp. and CBS hoped for, launching a wave of coverage of mobile deals that might otherwise slide right past… Read more »
CBS Launches Mobile Video Alerts
CBS joins News Corp. today with the launch of new a b2c mobile effort (and dueling news breaks in the Times). CBS is pitching news alert sub… Read more »
Earnings: CBS Corp’s $9 Billion Loss
By Rafat Ali
CBS Corp reported its first earnings as the new independent unit, and not much about new media numbers, only assertion that they take new me… Read more »
iTunes Update: 12 Million-Plus Video Downloads; Three Showtime Series Added To Library; New Nano
It’s fun with numbers time. (My math teachers would get a good laugh out of this.) Some new iTunes’ download info: — In a press release ann… Read more »
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CBS Goes Direct With Survivor Shows
By Rafat Ali
In what is being touted as a first, CBS has gone direct with the sale of its hit show Survivor, on its own website CBS.com. Till now, show d… Read more »
CBS Launches New Research Division; Studying Digital Media
By Rafat Ali
CBS has created a new, expanded research division, CBS Vision, naming longtime CBS research exec David Poltrack to head it as president.
The… Read more »
@ NATPE 2006: WB, UPN To Merge, Form CW Network
Still trying to parse the details but CBS and Time Warner’s Warner Brothers Entertainment are closing their second-tier broadcast nets UPN a… Read more »
Online, Mobile Sports Sites Not Always In Sync For NFL Playoffs.
For the past few weeks, I’ve been wandering around with review versions of a Verizon LG9800 and a Verizon broadband wireless card. I put bot… Read more »
Viacom Split Final; Two Digital Players Emerge
By Rafat Ali
Officially, the two separate companies will start trading separately tomorrow…Viacom and CBS Corporation. Check out the new CBS Corp webs… Read more »
CBS, Yahoo Tie-Up On Streaming Multi-Studio Comedy Shows Online
By Rafat Ali
CBS has tied up with Yahoo to stream episodes of its hit comedy series “Two And A Half Men” and “How I Met Your Mother.” This is perhaps the… Read more »
Infinity Broadcasting To Re-brand As CBS Radio (sub. req.)
The rebranding announcement is part of the series of pre-split moves being made by what will be “new” Viacom and CBS. This puts the radio gr… Read more »
CBS, Verizon Wireless Video Deal: A First For CBS
A variety of CBS video will start showing up on Verizon V Cast this month in the network’s first mobile content deal. Offerings include vide… Read more »
AOL, CBSNews.com In Content Deal
CBSNews.com video and text news will be integrated throughout AOL.com, the AOL News channel and featured on the front page of the AOL servic… Read more »
Industry Moves: Andrew Heyward Out As President, CBS News; Sean McManus To Oversee News And Sports
Sean McManus, president of CBS Sports since 1996, adds president of CBS News to his portfolio Nov. 7 following the long-rumored departure of… Read more »
Affiliate Agreements Not the Only Thing Keeping Some Network News Offline
Affiliate agreements guaranteeing exclusivity for some content are one explanation for the lack of streaming contemporaneous news content on… Read more »
Goldman Sachs Communacopia: Leslie Moonves, Co-COO, Viacom
Sensitive to its pending split, Viacom filed the transcripts of Communacopia presentations by co-COOs Tom Freston and Leslie Moonves. From t… Read more »
ML Media Conferece: Les Moonves, Co-COO, Viacom
By Rafat Ali
Les Moonves, Viacom’s co-COO (and in line to be the CEO of the new spinoff with CBS Corporation) spoke at the Merrill Lynch Media & Entertai… Read more »
CBS SportsLine Plans Include Considerable Podcasting
It isn’t as sexy as free video but podcasting plays a role in the integration of CBS SportsLine with CBS Digital. CBS Digital’s Larry Kramer… Read more »
CBS Sports Announcement Coming
By Rafat Ali
CBS Digital Media and CBS Sports is making an announcement in about 30 minutes from now…Sean McManus, President, CBS Sports and Larry Kram… Read more »
Sportsline Being Integrated Into CBS Sports
By Rafat Ali
CBS Sportsline, now owned by, well, CBS, is being integrated into CBS Sports. Not that big a deal, but all the footage which is not being us… Read more »
CBS Takes Bold Approach To Podcasting
It takes a lot to impress me when it comes podcasting these days but CBS Digital just got my attention. The network is launching CBS Netcast… Read more »
Yahoo Search Marketing Strikes Multiyear Deal Across Multiple Viacom Sites
In one of its widest-ranging deals yet, Yahoo Search Marketing will provide paid search, contextual advertising and customized search across… Read more »
Industry Moves: Bill Martens To CBS Digital Biz Dev From Reuters
Bill Martens has joined CBS Digital Media as director of business development for CBSNews.com; the former journalist was responsible for gl… Read more »
Viacom & CBS: The Two Focus on Digital
By Rafat Ali
Viacom, the media conglomerate, will split into, well, Viacom, and CBS Corporation. The first one will include MTV Networks and Paramount, a… Read more »
Interview: Larry Kramer, President, CBS Digital
[Staci D. Kramer] Larry Kramer and I had a hard time connecting long enough to do an interview the day the new CBS News digital strategy was… Read more »
Interview: Andrew Heyward, President, CBS News
Larry Kramer’s current post as president of CBS Digital started with a consulting job for Andrew Heyward, who was looking for input on a re… Read more »
React: CBS News Lays Out Broadband Plans
While I write up interviews with CBS News President Andrew Heyward and CBS Digital President Larry Kramer, here’s a smattering of what’s bei… Read more »
CBS News Finds Solution To Lack Of Cable Outlet: Broadband
Updated: As we reported last night, CBS News and CBS Digital announced this morning the reinvention of CBSNews.com as an on-demand 24-hour b… Read more »
CBS Digital, CBS News Have Big Plans; Announcement Tomorrow
Updated: read below:
[Staci D. Kramer] CBS Digital President Larry Kramer and CBS News President Andrew Heyward hope to make some news of t… Read more »
CBS To Lauch Soaps Talk Show Online
(via LostRemote) CBS will launch a new daytime talk show to hype the network’s soaps. “Daytime Talk Live”, a weekly hour webcast hosted by K… Read more »
Industry Moves: CBS Digital Media Appoints Former Yahoo Exec As Senior VP, Strategy
CBS Digital Media, the recently formed unit in Viacom, has appointed Jonathan Sobel as its senior VP, Strategy and Business Development. The… Read more »
Larry Kramer, Take Two: MarketWatch Couldn't Have Happened As Part Of CBS
By Rafat Ali
During the years when Viacom’s web vision was covered with cataracts, CBS MarketWatch and CBS Sportsline thrived because they were outside t… Read more »
Larry Kramer On CBS Digital: "The web is going to be our cable news network"
By Rafat Ali
Larry Kramer unveiled some of his plans for CBS Digital during a seminar at The Media Center and, if only half of what he’s talking about ha… Read more »
Singingfish Signs 10 New Content Partners Including CNN And CBSNews.com
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AOL’s Singingfish is adding 10 new content partners for searchable video feeds, including Time Warner sibling CNN, Atom-Films, CBSNews.com,… Read more »
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