Yesterday’s press release from Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), announcing a comprehensive new ten-year distribution agreement… Read more »
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Xfinity TV subscribers stymied by the lack of access to iPad app WatchESPN have relief in sight: a new multi-year, cro… Read more »
This is the last in a series of posts that highlighted key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from… Read more »
Now it’s Verizon’s turn in the government spotlight. The U.S. Department of Justice plans to look into the recent deals that the wireless co… Read more »
The Federal Trade Commission announced today Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) CEO Brian L. Roberts has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle charges that he… Read more »
Verizon is getting its full turn in the rumor mill. Last week, word had it that Verizon is looking to launch an OTT subscription service. Ne… Read more »
Two of the biggest global news brands are gaining a bigger U.S. foothold – but, while one has finally broken in to the TV mainstream, the ot… Read more »
Last week, Verizon announced a $3.6 billion deal to buy wireless spectrum from cable operators and resell their pay-TV services. This week,… Read more »
A big move for Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) today, and something of a seismic shift for the cable industry as it moves away from its fixation… Read more »
With last week’s hiring of Gilt City’s Fernando Romero, as VP of ad sales of women’s lifestyle guide DailyCandy, the company has decided tha… Read more »
The latest installment of the Twilight movies, Breaking Dawn, enjoyed one of the top-grossing opening weekends of all time (for some inexpli… Read more »
It’s a wild world these days at the intersection of traditional television business models and all the new ways that people are consuming co… Read more »
Linda Yaccarino, who left her role as SVP/COO of Turner Entertainment Ad Sales & Marketing and Acquisitions after 18 years last week, is qui… Read more »
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 »
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 »
Unable either to attract the kind of money under circumstances that would make it worthwhile or a deal that made more strategic sense than h… Read more »
After years of effort and speculation, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has pieced together nearly 40 broadcast services from around the world to boos… Read more »
» Facebook Pushes Back Against ‘Super-Cookie’ Charges (paidContent)
» Is Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Really Shaking In Its Sho… Read more »
Judges this year have shot down two unorthodox tactics used by the entertainment industry to collect money from file-sharers. But that hasn’… Read more »
Women’s fashion and lifestyle e-newsletter and deals network DailyCandy is unveiling its first foray into broadband video through its partne… Read more »
Warned by an interviewer at today’s Goldman Sachs conference hat he was about to talk about cordcutting, the subject that won’t go away, Tim… Read more »
Indie documentary video streaming service SnagFilms making good on some of the changes it proposed earlier this year, when it raised $10 mil… Read more »
Another day, another patent suit is hitting the courts. Today the Canada-based patent holder WiLAN has filed a suit in a U.S. court against… Read more »
Bloomberg TV is making a renewed push to fight its way out of the nosebleed section of Comcast’s channel line-up. Tired of being stuck at 10… Read more »
Several days after losing the first round in court, Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) has dropped its false advertising case against DirecTV (NYSE: DTV)… Read more »
Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) needs a helping hand, there’s no doubt about that. And it sounds like a familiar friend may be riding to the rescue b… Read more »
– Everything Everywhere: Mark Horrobin is the director of transformation for Everything Everywhere, the merged JV between T-Mobile and Oran… Read more »
DirecTV’s new advertising campaign is really rankling Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA). The cable company tried to convince a federal judge this week t… Read more »
Savvy consumers already know that when considering a product advertised with the word “free,” it often pays to read the fine print. In a sig… Read more »
While his counterparts at CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) offer new streaming video deals with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Amazon (NS… Read more »
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) has had some success with NBCUniversal programming since it took control early this year — taking credit for greenlig… Read more »
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 »
With the race to transform the living room into a web-connected media hub accelerating, a new report shows the diverging viewer habits acros… Read more »
Last month, Bloomberg made it known that it was quite unhappy with where Bloomberg TV was being placed in Comcast’s TV lineup. Bloomberg, wh… Read more »
» 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 »
In a move designed to streamline and simplify its media buying processes since its merger with NBC Universal (NSDQ: CMCSA), Comcast has spli… Read more »
Online movie ticketer Fandango says that 20 percent of its virtual box office this summer was generated by its iPhone, iPad and Android apps… Read more »
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 »
Ad industry veteran David Verklin says he will step down as CEO of Canoe Ventures, the interactive TV joint venture backed by the major cabl… Read more »
For over a decade the recording industry attempted to crack down on peer-to-peer file-sharing using threats and lawsuits. But digital music… Read more »
