As Cablevision Launches New App, Its Legal Battle With Viacom Heats Up
The “party line” from pay TV companies about iPad apps is clear now-it’s another television screen, not a new internet-based form of distrib… Read more »
Time Warner’s Bewkes Is In No Hurry For More Online Video Deals
photo: Corbis
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 »
Time Inc. To Add Tablet Editions For All Mags; Strikes B&N Deal
A few weeks after extending its “all access” subscription plans to Time magazine, Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is working on creating tablet editio… Read more »
Time Warner Film Dollars Rise On Video Game Hits; Mags Gain A Bit
photo: Flickr / Michael McDonough
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) saw profits and revenues boosted by movie sequels, but did even better thanks to video games tied to film franchises… Read more »
Our Guide To E-Singles
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E-singles are one of the hottest new publishing trends–with everyone from David Baldacci and Jodi Picoult to Byliner and Slate testing them… Read more »
Hotfile Fights Back-Says Movie Studio Abused Its Anti-Piracy Tool
Earlier this year, the MPAA kicked off the entertainment industry’s battle against “cyberlockers” by suing Hotfile, a company it painted as… Read more »
Video: Piers Morgan Calls Out MP Louise Mensch For Accusations Against Him
photo: CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
We know Piers Morgan for his reality TV stints and his gig now as Larry King’s replacement on CNN. But before that he was a well-known tablo… Read more »
Industry Moves: Upstream; LBi; Mediatonic; Globecast; IPC Media
– Upstream: Simon Negus is the new COO for mobile marketing company Upstream. He joins from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), where he had been a par… Read more »
Time Magazine Adopts ‘All Access’ Subscriptions Across Print And Digital
photo: Time Magazine's iPad App
Time magazine is rolling out an “all access” subscription plan that gives current print subscribers complete use of the title’s content acro… Read more »
CNN Now Streaming Live To iPad, iPhone, But Only With TV Subscription
More and more companies are starting to think of the mobile screen as an adjunct to the big screen, but only as long as you are still paying… Read more »
Netflix, NBCUniversal Extend Programming Deal But No More Next-Day ‘SNL’
photo: NBC / 30 Rock
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 »
Verklin Stepping Down As Canoe Ventures’ CEO; Timko To Be Interim CEO
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 »
PIB: Magazine Ad Pages Rise A Bit, As Food Category Starts To Stumble
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By and large, consumer magazine ad pages have been trending pretty well the past year, ekeing out slim gains amid advertisers’ continued mig… Read more »
New Anti-Piracy Tactic Turns ISPs Into Copyright Cops
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 »
Industry Moves: Turner/MySpace; thePlatform; Hotwire; Kirusa
– Turner Broadcasting: The company has confirmed that Anthony Lukom is VP and GM of UK and Ireland for Turner in Europe. He will lead the b… Read more »
ESPN’s Live Wimbledon Promise Centers On TV; Mobile Held Hostage
photo: Getty Images Sport
Novak Dkojovic and Petra Kvitova weren’t the only winners at Wimbledon this year. Fans who thinking watching sports live matters won big whe… Read more »
Next Issue Media Works To Build The Storefront Before The Audience Arrives
Magazine joint venture Next Issue Media is adding six titles to its digital storefront on the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android-powered Samsung Ga… Read more »
China’s Youku Video Site Gets Warner Movies For Its Paid Service
photo: Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Warner Bros.)
Youku, the New York-listed “Chinese YouTube”, has gained a license from Warner Bros Home Entertainment Group’s CAV Warner Home Entertainment… Read more »
Viacom Files Another iPad Streaming Lawsuit, This Time Against Cablevision
Just one day after Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) agreed to put their litigation over iPad streaming on “hold,” Viacom has f… Read more »
Viacom And Time Warner Take A Break From Legal Battle Over TV On iPads
photo: TWC
iPads and other tablets that enable television watching are looking to be one of the legal flash points between content owners and distribut… Read more »
Industry Moves: Twitter, IPC Digital Director, RadiumOne, PPL CTO, iVillage
– Twitter: It’s named SparkPR’s Rachel Bremer, who has done PR for plenty of tech startups, as its debut, London-based head of communicatio… Read more »
Harry Potter Author Launches New Website — Could It Be An E-Bookstore?
Visit Pottermore.com and you’ll see a magenta homepage, two owls, a “coming soon,” and that’s it…oh, except it’s also launched by J.K. Row… Read more »
@ Cable Show: Netflix And Hulu On Cable Set Tops?
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Cable operators already deliver Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Hulu over broadband but could the services now perceived as competitors wind up as… Read more »
Comparing The Major Magazine Publishers’ App Portfolios
Magazine publishers are putting a lot of faith in apps, building development teams and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars (in some ca… Read more »
Harry Potter Goes Legit In China: Warner Bros. Is The First To Ink VoD Deal
photo: Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Warner Bros.)
If one of the best measures against piracy is to make content more easily available in a legitimate format, then Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) ha… Read more »
@ Cable Show: Britt: ‘No Such Thing As A TV Anymore’
photo: The Cable Show
Whether it was Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) CEO Glenn Britt declaring TV is dead, long live the video screen or Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO… Read more »
Hearst Opens App Lab, Plans A Dozen New Apps Over Next Six Months
photo: Philip Friedman/Studio D
With nearly 100 apps already in circulation, including Zinio digital replicas of all its 14 magazines, Hearst plans to issue a dozen more ap… Read more »
Appeals Court: ‘Bundling’ Cable Service Is Not Illegal
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A lot of people don’t like “bundling”-the practice of selling consumers access to a big chunk of cable channels, rather than allowing “a la… Read more »
Josh Quittner Leaves Time Inc. To Join iPad Magazine Flipboard
photo: Time Inc.
Josh Quittner, Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) director of digital editorial development for news, sports, and business, is leaving the print magazine… Read more »
Social Games Developer CrowdStar Raises $23 Million From Time Warner, Intel
CrowdStar, a social games developer that has attracted past attention of Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), has closed its first-ever round of institut… Read more »
In Upfront Week Stunner, Ebersol Out; Lazarus New Chairman Of NBC Sports
This past Monday Dick Ebersol jovially tossed mini footballs to agency execs in the New York Hilton ballroom for the first upfront since Com… Read more »
@ pcMobile: Media R&D Teams Need Freedom, Flexibility
photo: Tom Krazit
Research and development is challenged when media companies try to protect their existing businesses instead of moving forward. And Sara Ohr… Read more »
@ pcMobile: How Time Inc, Zite, & CrowdFusion Manage Platform & App Fatigue
Content publishers are facing difficult choices about how to direct often limited resources to a growing number of platforms and business mo… Read more »
Next Issue Media’s Digital Storefront Opens For Business On Samsung Galaxy
Next Issue Media, the major magazine and newspaper joint venture, is officially opening its “digital storefront” on the Google (NSDQ: GOOG)… Read more »
Time Warner Cable Adds Funding To BlackArrow Financing Round
BlackArrow, a company that provided video-on-demand ad insertions for DVRs and other “advanced TV” systems, has added Time Warner Cable (NYS… Read more »
The Bestsellers: Fortune Article ‘Inside Apple’ Beats Out Full-Length Books
Among the usual suspects like Michael Connelly and James Patterson on the top 10 list of paid Kindle bestsellers this week was something of… Read more »
Correction: Time Warner Hires ABC’s Benson As Chief Creative Officer
Corrected: Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) is promoting Kristen O’Hara to Chief Marketing Officer and has hired Michael Benson, ABC (NYSE: DIS) Mark… Read more »
Sports Illustrated’s McDonell On Apple: Our Subscribers Are Most Important
One way publishers could skirt Apple’s 30 percent commission – just don’t offer new subscriptions through apps. That’s what Time (NYSE: TWX)… Read more »
Time Inc. EVP John Q. Griffin Exiting The Company
Barely six months into the job, former National Geographic Society publishing exec John Q. Griffin is leaving Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) by “mutu… Read more »
HBO Go Gets It Right; More Than 1 Million Downloads On iOS, Android
HBO’s best production this year may not be a program. I had a few doubts at times with the browser version but HBO Go as an app is everythin… Read more »
