Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) continues to build out its Amazon Prime Instant Video service, this time with more than 2,000 movies and TV episodes from Twentieth Century Fox (NSDQ: NWS). Nothing first run or current but it ups the amount of video available through the $79 annual Amazon Prime membership by…

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 video distributor with the right deal. *Fox* Networks is changing the window for online viewing: effective Aug. 15, there will be an 8-day exclusive window for those with subscriber…

Dish Networks is celebrating its 30th anniversary, but a few of their biggest media partners aren’t interested in throwing the satellite TV company any parties. After Dish “celebrated” this milestone by offering millions of subscribers free access to Starz channels for an entire year, it got a different kind of…

TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) CEO Tom Rogers hailed the $500 million patent settlement with Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) as a historic day for the DVR company. The agreement, which is further explained in an 8-k filing on TiVo’s site, represents the “one of largest technology patent settlements of all time,” the…

The Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) had a number of things to cheer about in Q1. In addition to the $500 million patent settlement with TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO), the satellite TV provider managed to reverse the subscriber losses it experienced over the last few quarters. Separately, Dish also said it was…

Following yet one more judicial strike against their case, sister companies Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) and Echostar (NSDQ: SATS) finally have admitted the need to get licenses for use of DVR technology patented by Tivo. The satellite distributor and technology companies will pay TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) $500 million over the…

A startling admission from Charlie Ergen, CEO of Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH), on his company’s Q3-earnings call capped a week of high anxiety and low expectations in the media business.

After two weeks of dead air and hot air, Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) and News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) finally found enough good faith to reach a deal in “principle” late Saturday afternoon—putting three Fox stations and several cable nets back on the air for more than three million cable subs. The…

See, these News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). guys aren’t entirely unreasonable: Fox Networks has struck a new carriage agreement with Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH), ending one of their two current negotiations with distributors.

A fresh blow for TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) in its ongoing patent battle with Dish and EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS). The United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected TiVo’s claims to two patents the companies are battling over in federal appeals court. A federal court had ruled in TiVo’s favor in…

I would love to hop on the *Google* TV bandwagon. It sounds like a fun ride with lots of great company and exciting plans. But it’s a hard jump to make given how many internet/web/connected TV bandwagons I’ve seen crash and burn or simply fizzle between the cable and consumer…

TiVo’s March court victory in its patent battle with Dish and EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) could be erased, as a federal appeals court has agreed to rehear the case. The pronouncement wasn’t unexpected. The legal fight, which has dragged on for six years, concerns whether the satellite companies infringed on TiVo’s…

The economy may be getting better, but consumers’ interest in home entertainment is continuing to rise, as Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) said it added 237,000 net new subs in Q1. That’s a reversal of last year, when Dish lost subs. It’s uncertain whether it will continue its momentum—this is the…

Dish Network is preparing to launch a “TV Everywhere” Internet destination as soon as this summer that would let subscribers get access to TV programming on a range of devices. “All I can really say is, like the rest of the industry, TV Everywhere is important to us,” said Bruce…

Another win for fledgling premium net Epix HD: a deal with Dish Network to offer the service to those of its 14.1 million customers who subscribe to HD. It’s the first national deal for the net, which already has signed up *Charter*, Cox , Verizon FiOS, Mediacom and NCTC. When…

Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) this week began taking orders for the ViP922 SlingLoaded DVR receiver—about a year after it originally expected to ship the product—a key piece of the satellite operator’s “TV Everywhere” strategy. The “SlingLoaded” DVR allows customers to access their TV lineup and DVR recordings over the Internet…

TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) won another court round against Dish and EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) when two members of a three-judge federal court panel sided with a lower court ruling that the satellite companies are in contempt of a permanent injunction prohibiting infringement on its DVR patents. But the fight, ongoing in…

Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH), co-opting a term popularized by the cable industry, announced a “TV Everywhere” suite of products geared around EchoStar’s Slingbox to let subscribers access live TV and DVR recordings over the Internet and home wireless networks while EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) rolled out a similar line aimed at…

Dish Network has filed for trademark protection on “TV Everywhere,” which the satellite operator apparently is seeking to use for its forthcoming Slingbox-enabled set-top box. It has established a “TV Everywhere” section of its website that references its remote DVR programming features and includes a link to Sling Media, the…