Amazon Prime Follows CBS Deal With Movies From NBCUniversal
A deal with NBCUniversal (NSDQ: CMCSA) will roughly double the number of movies available for instant streaming by *Amazon* Prime members. T… Read more »
Has Stock Market Favorite Netflix Hit A Wall Or Just Stalled?
For the last year-and-a-half, Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), the streaming video phenom, has seen its stock soar as it’s gobbled up new users. The co… 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 »
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 »
Update: NOTW Redux? News International Registers “SunOnSunday” Domains
Update: So now the mystery has been solved. Some time late today, the ownerships of the domain names thesunonsunday.co.uk and sunonsunday.co… 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 »
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 »
Some Mileage Yet In MeeGo? Intel Adds MeeGo Tablet Apps To Its App Store
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Yesterday’s news that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has finally launched a handset built on MeeGo was one vote in favor of the OS, and here’s another: I… Read more »
CBS Brings In Starz’ Marc DeBevoise To Oversee Digital Entertainment
CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) has hired Marc DeBevoise as SVP and GM of its entertainment division, two months after Anthony Soohoo left that… Read more »
CBS’ Radio.com Gets A New Streaming Channel: Last.fm
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Years after CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) acquired Last.fm, the personalized streaming music service will be added to Radio.com, the broadcast… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-03-11
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» Now that Groupon has filed for a $750 million IPO, it’s time to guess the next daily deal site to go public. (paidContent)
Alki David Copyright Suit Against CNET Has Only One Movie, Five Songs
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FilmOn founder Alki David’s copyright lawsuit against CBS (NYSE: CBS) and CNET may be getting cut down to size-a not-very-big size. The judg… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-12-11
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» Four months after the FCC approved the merger between Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and NBC Universal, *Meredith* Attwell Baker, one of… Read more »
Bookish CEO: ‘Thrilled To Have A Dual Revenue Stream’
Technically, Bookish doesn’t have any revenue stream yet. The joint venture of Hachette Book Group, Penguin Group (USA), and Simon & Schuste… Read more »
FilmOn Founder Alki David Sues CBS, CNET
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FilmOn quickly got in trouble once it started broadcasting the programming of U.S. TV networks over the internet. As he began losing his cou… Read more »
CBS’ Moonves: We’re Not Just Counting On Netflix
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Although the agreement between CBS (NYSE: CBS) Corp.’s Showtime network and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is set to expire this summer, CEO Les Moonv… Read more »
CBS Revenues Dip Slightly Sans Super Bowl; Digital Publishing Sales Double
CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) turned in a pretty strong quarter on both cable and broadcast as it heads into the upfront. The absence of the Super B… Read more »
The Royal Wedding: Big Hats, And Bigger Viewing Figures
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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 »
CBS CEO Moonves’ Pay Jumped To $57 Million In 2010
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CBS (NYSE: CBS) CEO Leslie Moonves’ total compensation in 2010 jumped to a staggering $57.7 million, up from $43 million in 2009, according… Read more »
Video: Paul Allen: New Memoir About Tech History, Not Revenge On Gates
First the excerpt in Vanity Fair, now the 60 Minutes interview to say, among other things, that people misunderstood the excerpt. Microsoft… Read more »
Anthony Soohoo Exits CBS Interactive
More changes in the executive suite at CBS (NYSE: CBS) Interactive: Anthony Soohoo, senior vp and general manager of entertainment, signaled… Read more »
Daily Mobile Lowdown: 7digital PlayBook; Nokia On Symbian; Foursquare; Zite
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Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile. Today, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) preloads 7digital on the PlayBook; Nokia’s still happy with Sym… Read more »
Charlie Sheen On Ustream: A Wasted Opportunity
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“The future of television is happening right now,” tweeted someone sitting pretty in the medium’s present, Survivor host Jeff Probst. But fr… Read more »
CBSi Buys Clicker; Lanzone Replaces Ashe As President
CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) is acquiring Clicker, the self-styled “TV Guide” for online video, and is installing Jim Lanzone, Clicker’s co-f… Read more »
What Netflix And Charlie Sheen Have In Common
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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 »
Why Netflix Can Do Better Than CBS
With Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) finally throwing its hat in the ring into the subscription-video business today, it was nifty timing on Netflix’s p… Read more »
Last.fm Will Charge For Music On Mobile And Other Gadgets
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In another sign the economics for purely-free music streamers don’t add up, Last.fm says it will now require a monthly subscription for acce… Read more »
TiVo Touts Ad Measurement With Free Web Tool
TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) is so confident about its ability to measure viewing of TV commercials that it’s giving the data away–sort of. The compan… Read more »
FilmOn CEO Alki David Loopier Than Ever In New Video
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Alki David-the eccentric billionaire founder of FilmOn.com and now enemy of the major television networks-has cranked out yet another wacky… Read more »
TargetSpot Raises $8 Million To Expand Its Digital Audio Ad Network
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CBS (NYSE: CBS) Radio-backed TargetSpot, which bills itself as the biggest digital audio ad network, has raised $8 million in its latest rou… Read more »
CES Wire: T-Mobile; Samsung; Hulu; MobiTV; Scanbuy; Panasonic
–T-Mobile, the fourth largest mobile operator in the U.S., will not be left behind in the CES 4G cavalcade. It may still be holding off fro… Read more »
Boxee To Get CBS Full Episodes; iPad App, Vudu 3D Coming Too
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Boxee is announcing a deal with CBS (NYSE: CBS) that will allow it to stream full episodes through its over-the-top player as part of its ap… Read more »
CES Wire: Nvidia; Yahoo; Samsung; Google; AT&T; Asus; Mobile500 Alliance
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– Nvidia rolls out the ‘super’ chip: The company announced new phones powered by Nvidia Tegra 2, a “super” chip that optimizes network down… Read more »
User-Generated Sports Site Bleacher Report Raises $10.5 Million
Fast-growing sports site Bleacher Report has raised $10.5 million in a round of funding led by new investor Crosslink Capital. The company s… Read more »
Google TV To Lay Low At CES
What could have been a big boost for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV from the consumer-electronics industry is now looking like a no-confidence vote… Read more »
TV-Industry Vet Fred Silverman Resurfaces With Digital Venture Blip City
Fred Silverman, who ran each of the three broadcast networks over the course of the 1970s, is trying his hand at programming on the internet… Read more »
Netflix TV Bill Could Kill $200 Stock Price
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You’d think an invitation to the S&P 500 would mean nothing but sunshine Friday for Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX). But along comes a little rain cour… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 12.09.10
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» NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) CEO Jeff Zucker is considering a job in private equity as he prepares to step down following the compa… Read more »
Interview: Neil Ashe On Why He’s Leaving CBS Interactive Now
If you’re looking for post-acquisition personnel drama a la MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) or frustration a la Dodgeball-Google (NSDQ: GOOG), don’t rea… Read more »
Neil Ashe Leaving As President Of CBS Interactive; Search Underway
CBS (NYSE: CBS) started the year with the departure of Quincy Smith as head of digital and will start the next one without Neil Ashe, presid… Read more »
