Earnings: CBS Profit Up In 2Q06; Moonves “Evasive” About Digital Revenue
CBS talke a lot about digital during its earnings report and call today but didn’t provide much in the way of data to show its impact on the… Read more »
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Breaking Up Was The Easy Part For Viacom and CBS; Making It Pay Is Another Story
On the heels of tough reports from analysts Richard Greenfield and Aryeh Bourkoff, both the NYT and the WSJ (sub. req.) picked this weekend… Read more »
BBC’s Big Restructuring Coming Today; New Media Expansion
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The big BBC restructuring plan is coming today, at 10 AM GMT…part of the plan includes the merger of the production and TV divisions under… Read more »
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TCA Tour: Comedy Central, TV Land; Broadband Econ; CBS & YouTube
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CBS News Offers Clips For Custom DVDs Via Amazon
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CBS Affiliates Reach Deal On NFL, Digital
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Industry Moves: Stark Leaves Gartner For VP/EP, CNBC.com
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AOL’s KOL Will Co-Produce Morning CBS Saturday Morning Kids Block
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CBS To Launch Entertainment Site Showbuzz
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CBS: iTunes Deal Shows Growing Comfort; May Change Google Video Deal
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CBS, Affiliates Still Working On New Media, NFL Issues
Judging from various reports, CBS CEO Leslie Moonves’s message to affiliates at the annual meeting in Las Vegas this week followed much alon… Read more »
Upfronts: Moonves on Digital; CBS Partners With Mark Burnett & AOL For Gold Rush
Updated below to include CBS-AOL-Burnett deal: When I asked someone at CBS about the role digital might play in the upfront, the response su… Read more »
Four ABC Affiliates Will Participate In Streaming Trial
ABC has shifted gears — at least public gears — and will include four affiliates in the two-month streaming video trial that began May 1.… Read more »
First Look: CBS Innertube
Not a lot to look at yet. Three featured pieces to start — “Geek To Chic” (13:231), “Beyond Survivor” (4:11), “Survivor Live” (55:55). One… Read more »
CBS Innertube: “Love Monkey” Returns; “Lucy” and “Brady Bunch” Could Show Up
Yes, it’s true. Broadband will breathe some life into “Love Monkey” … the show that couldn’t last on the air will reprise on new CBS broa… Read more »
CBS To Debut Broadband Channel; Upfronts In Mind
By Rafat Ali
CBS is supposed to launch a broadband channel today, with an eye on ad upfronts in two week…the channel will have mainly original content,… Read more »
From NAB: Illustrating The CBS Online O&O Push
Last week, I mentioned looking for a link to a striking promo video from CBS4.com aired at NAB. The video shows tech reporter Dave Malkoff e… Read more »
Earnings: CBS’ Lower Q1 Profits; Mobile To Bring $3 Million; NCAA Streaming $4 Million
By Rafat Ali
CBS reported lower Q1 profits compared with a year ago, before it had split up with Viacom. On a comparable basis, earnings were flat as bet… Read more »
CBS’ Mobile Deal With Verizon To Bring $3 Million
By Rafat Ali
On the Q1 conference call today, CBS CEO Les Moonves mentioned that on the mobile content side, the Verizon V Cast deal– which lets VCast s… Read more »
@ NAB: RTNDA: On-Demand News Still At The Beginning
The first appearance by Vivian Schiller since her appointment at GM of NYTimes.com was announced yesterday … Other panelists include Jonat… Read more »
CBS’ Rockstar in MSN Deal Again; Partial Online Webcasting
By Rafat Ali
From MIPTV: MSN has tied up with with Mark Burnett Productions to show one of three weekly episodes of the summer reality TV series RockStar… Read more »
Interview: Cyriac Roeding, VP, CBS Mobile: Think Upstream, Not Just Downstream
By Rafat Ali
An interview I did on MocoNews.net, in advance of CTIA, with Cyriac Roeding, the VP heading CBS’s mobile content efforts. It seems as if CBS… Read more »
Pre-CTIA: Cyriac Roeding, VP, CBS Mobile: Think Upstream, Not Just Downstream
By Rafat Ali
[by Rafat Ali] Last week, I spoke to Cyriac Roeding, the VP heading CBS’s mobile content efforts. It seems as if CBS has suddenly come out o… Read more »
FiOS Update: Verizon Will Pay CBS For Retrans; Claims More Than 30 Percent Of First Market
When CBS was joined at the hip with Viacom’s MTV nets, retransmission rights for the network’s owned-and-operated stations were usually tied… Read more »
March Madness On Demand: Interview: Kramer: “It’s Our Final Four”
As the final seconds of the last second-round game ticked off the clock Sunday night, Larry Kramer talked about the network’s massive ad-sup… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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
Updated: The response when CBS News told the story of an autistic teen’s triumph on the basketball court was so extraordinary, the network r… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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