Sky's Internet TV Service Could Offer Pay-As-You-Go Shows
BSkyB’s upcoming over-the-top internet TV service could create a new post-subscription ecosystem for pay-per-view and pay-as-you-go TV shows… Read more »
Broadcasters Sue To Stop $12 Streaming Service Aereo
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Well, that was quick. Two weeks ago, media mogul Barry Diller announced an ambitious cloud-based TV service that streams over-the-air channe… Read more »
Why U.S. Prosectors Won't Be Filing Corruption Charges Against News Corp
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What if the scandal involving bribery, phone-hacking and News Corp landed in an American courtroom? It would be a great story. But despite t… Read more »
The Future For News International After James Murdoch
Does James Murdoch’s UK exit bode ill or well for News Corp.’s UK newspapers? That’s the question many are asking. Read more »
James Murdoch Steps Down At News International
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James Murdoch has been removed as executive chairman of News Corp.’s UK newspaper wing News International, as the phone hacking and media et… Read more »
Cloud Concerns? Fox And Warner Bros Will Offer New Content-Storage Service
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Perhaps impatient with the progress of UltraViolet, Hollywood’s ambitious cloud-based movie-storage plan, two movie studios are launching th… Read more »
Social TV Startup Zeebox Seeks Impact With TV Campaign
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One of the nascent social TV space’s most interesting new second-screen software services will this week court mainstream users with a natio… Read more »
News Corp’s Times Hikes Digital Fee To Milk iPad Riches
With Rupert Murdoch in London to launch the Sunday Sun whilst grasping News International’s crisis for a second time, News Corp is doubling… Read more »
Open Road Responds To HarperCollins E-Book Lawsuit
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Open Road Media responded today to the lawsuit that HarperCollins filed against it in December over the digital rights to Jean Craighead Geo… Read more »
News Corp Sees Digital Payments Soften But Not Reverse UK Sales Decline
More than a year and a half after News Corp.’s flagship UK “quality” papers introduced new paid digital outlets, their effect is becoming cl… Read more »
Newspaper Ethics Scandal Has Not Yet Hurt Sun Sales
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While the UK’s media ethics furore ended up closing the News Of The World last year, how did News Corp.’s next-best-selling UK newspaper far… Read more »
News Corp: Earnings Surge But Scandal Bill Hits $104 Million
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News Corp surpassed analyst expectations in quarterly earnings announced today, but the numbers reflected two wildly divergent trends. Read more »
A Second News International Paper Faces Questions In Hacking Investigation
The hacking investigation that led to the shutdown of News of the World has spread to another News International newspaper, The Times, poli… Read more »
Bloomberg’s Lex Fenwick Named Dow Jones CEO
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News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) has appointed Lex Fenwick as the CEO of Dow Jones & Company, filling the position left open following Les Hinton’s re… Read more »
As Sky Growth Slows, Can Internet Defend It From Downturn And New Rivals?
BSkyB’s financials are still improving, but the company is now flaunting a range of new internet upgrades to try containing subscriber growt… Read more »
Sky Will De-Couple Pay-TV Content From Satellite For IPTV Era
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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is acting to head off rising City concerns about the threat from over-the-top connected TV services, by announcing it will… Read more »
Sky Adding Broadcaster-Branded VOD Services From BBC And ITV
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The UK’s leading pay-TV provider BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is taking a significant step to improve its PVR box’s new IP on-demand TV service by addi… Read more »
The Times And Spotify: Why Pay When Everything’s Free?
I’ll bet The Times sub-editors raised some eyebrows when their business writer Emily Ford filed her piece, Why I’m not paying any more, for… Read more »
Jesta Digital Finally Kills Bitbop Mobile Video Service
It looks like the death spiral that was the Bitbop mobile video service is finally no longer. PaidContent understands that the service — on… Read more »
Rhapsody Goes To Europe As New Music Services Compete, News Corp’s Fails
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Chasing the post-download digital music opportunity, veteran services are seeking scale to fight dominant newcomers, whilst strangers from o… Read more »
Jon Miller, News Corp.: It’s All About Video For Us Right Now
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Jon Miller, the chief digital officer for News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), described his company’s digital strategy today as very “focused on v… Read more »
WSJ Poaches Narisetti From Washington Post
The reverb from Kevin Delaney’s departure from the Wall Street Journal for Atlantic Media Group just hit DC: WSJ alum Raju Narisetti is head… Read more »
Interview: News Int. Hacking Scandal Has Spurred Innovation
News International’s recently-appointed digital product director is trying to make the publisher more agile and innovative in digital media… Read more »
News Corp Settles Hack Claims On Basis Execs Lied And Destroyed Evidence
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News Corp could be laden with a multi-million pound UK compensation bill after agreeing to settle claims on the basis its executives tried t… Read more »
Atlantic Tries A Business Site Again; WSJ's Delaney Will Lead Editorial
Nearly two years after Atlantic Media Company suspended plans for a business site, the company is back at it with nothing less that what Jus… Read more »
Interview: 'No Decision' On Sun Paywall In Absence Of NOTW
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News Of The World’s closure deprived News International of data on which it could have based a decision to introduce digital fees at the UK’… Read more »
Tech Industry Breaks Back Of SOPA As Republicans Jump Ship On Black-out Day
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The furor over controversial anti-piracy legislation reached a climax on Wednesday as Republican lawmakers began disavowing the Stop Online… Read more »
The Times Plans Social Sharing Upgrade, Real-Time iPad News
News International’s The Times may shed its social media invisibility cloak by letting subscribers gift paywalled articles to friends. Read more »
The Sun Newspaper Going Premium In Mobile App For £4.99 A Month
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The UK’s highest-circulating newspaper may not yet be going ahead with web fees but it has introduced a subscription smartphone app, priced… Read more »
Hulu Plus Claims More Than 1.5 Million Subs; Commits $500 Million To Content In 2012
Hulu Plus has “materially exceeded” expectations, passing 1.5 million paying subscribers and heading closer to the point where the premium v… Read more »
Study: Old-School TV Viewing Is Still Growing
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A range of on-demand viewing options — and some new platforms to watch that content on — has traditional television watching on the run, r… Read more »
Hollywood Lambasts Sky Movies Ruling, But Open Access Gains Favour
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Six Hollywood studios have urged the UK’s competition watchdog to throw out its assertion their Sky Movies deals are anti-competitive. But s… Read more »
Chinese Video Site Youku Makes Movie Deal With Twentieth Century Fox
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Chinese online video giant Youku (NYSE:YOKU) today announced that it has inked a deal with none other than Twentieth Century Fox (NSDQ: NWS)… Read more »
'The Daily': No Longer Just For iPads (But Not For All Androids, Either)
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The Daily is finally available in Android, sort of. The News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) tablet tabloid, which has been iPad only since birth, is not… Read more »
F-bombs And Bare Bottoms At The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will hear today whether the FCC can punish broadcast networks for airing one-off cuss words and an actress’s derriere. The… Read more »
The CES Lowdown: 1-10-12
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A look at what’s been going on at the giant electronics show that is CES
» Panasonic flirts with irrelevance with MySpace TV par… Read more »
Interview Part 1: Netflix's Hastings Aims To Challenge BSkyB
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) fancies bidding against News Corp-controlled BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) for Hollywood movies and TV shows, even though internati… Read more »
Univision Launches 'Noticias' Spanish-Language News App For iPhone, Android
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Hispanics, according to Nielsen, have the second-highest penetration of smartphone usage among U.S. ethnic groups, and today brings news of… Read more »
BSkyB Buys Stake In Social TV Start-Up Zeebox
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News Corp-controlled pay-TV firm BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is buying itself a foothold in the looming social TV field by acquiring 10 percent of the… Read more »
News Corp's Shine Buying Web Video Producer ChannelFlip
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News Corp.’s newly-owned Shine Group is acquiring ChannelFlip, an independent online TV and video producer that has successfully developed b… Read more »
