No need to duck out of work early, now you can watch March Madness games live over your iPhone, and for the first time—anywhere over AT&T’s 3G network. The application, which is expected to be available Monday on iTunes, will cost $9.99—twice as much as last year’s version that was…

By Chris Tryhorn: UK broadcaster Five has signed a deal with CBS (NYSE: CBS) to make programmes available on the US network’s on-demand video website TV.com. The partnership is a coup for CBS, allowing it to steal a march on its US rivals ABC (NYSE: DIS), Fox and NBC, whose…

CBS (NYSE: CBS) Corp believes Les Moonves is the guy to lead and protect the TV net revenues in face of digital erosion, so much so that it has extended his CEO contract until 2015, and has incentivized him to renew after that, it announced today. Moonves’ contract was slated…

After some effusive praise for CBS’ cost containment and ability to withstand the economic downturn, Sumner Redstone, executive chairman, CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS), handed the call over to Les Moonves, CEO and president. Before hanging up, Redstone repeated a line he gave when introducing the Viacom (NYSE: VIA) earnings call…

In most cases, online is generally the bright spot on a company’s earnings report. But not in CBS’ case, as the Interactive segment’s 5 percent ad decline offset the 8 percent growth at the TV network and cable. No wonder CBS (NYSE: CBS) Research head Dave Poltrack was so incensed…

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CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) Chief Research Officer Dave Poltrack took dead aim at a Forrester Research survey that said marketers consider TV ads less and less effective. AdAge was there to capture Poltrack’s fit of pique. He was particularly set off by advertisers’ claim that only 41 percent of their…

A little more than a year after joining FiLife as president and general manger, Ezra Kucharz is leaving to become president of CBS (NYSE: CBS) Local Digital Media. FiLife is the personal finance joint venture between IAC (NSDQ: IACI) and Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS)—and both credit Kucharz with turning around…

Once again, talking about Apple’s future as a multichannel video distributor is all the rage. But people familiar with the discussions between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and video programmers over a possible subscription package say the talk is far ahead of the action, one reason why details are still murky. If…

Known for its prime time dramas, CBS (NYSE: CBS) corporate has a little of its own today: Nancy Tellem is leaving as president of CBS Network Television Entertainment Group and will be a senior adviser to CEO Leslie Moonves. The role will not be filled; instead, Nina Tassler and David…

*CBS* Interactive’s move to curtail its dealings with ad networks effective today represents one of the key ways Cnet has influenced its parent since being acquired for $1.8 billion last year. Madison (named for the avenue), the in-house online ad serving platform that CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) will rely on…

Updated: *CBS Interactive* is cutting the cord on third-party ad networks and some online ad exchanges effective immediately, paidContent has learned. The company is preparing its own ad serving platform, dubbed Madison, to power the CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) Premium Ad Network for its group of properties, betting that it…

CBS (NYSE: CBS) Research head Dave Poltrack thanked UBS for letting him do his annual conference presentation on a Wednesday as opposed to his usual Monday. He needed the chance to recover from a recent trip returned from China. There are many things the U.S. could learn from China, but…

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*CBS* should be pleased with its choice to allow *Microsoft* to sync Xbox LIVE to Last.fm, as the partnership has already netted the streaming music service nearly a million new subscribers. Last.fm went live on Xbox last Tuesday, and both companies are already hyping the deal as a success in…

I am at the Paley Center in midtown Manhattan, for their big yearly powwow on the future of global media and entertainment, listening to Katie Couric interview Jeff Bewkes and Les Moonves. Among the other questions, an audience member asked about the low ratings of CNN, compared to Fox and…

Four months after announcing the features, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) added social networking and music radio functionality to its Xbox 360 console on Tuesday, along with the first European foray for its Zune brand (see earlier reports from Tameka and I). Here are my initial explorations with each new service…

Quincy Smith, the outgoing head of CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), spoke last week at NewTeeVee Live conference in SF, where he spoke about the future of online video, and the tension between online and the traditional TV side. A great line about promo value of online video for networks: “3…

Mark May is a principal and senior internet and digital media research analyst at Needham & Company, LLC, a full-service growth-company investment bank. Ken Sonenclar’s Leading Voices piece on Thursday titled “Five Media Deals I’d Like To See Happen In 2010” was thoroughly thought-provoking. Here are my own thoughts around…

—Twitter: Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) senior research scientist Utkarsh Srivastava—whose expertise is in building large-scale distributed systems—is joining the microblogging service in an unspecified role, Louis Gray reports. He confirms the move—on Twitter. —Discovery Communications: Todd Zander has been promoted to vice president of digital media distribution, tasked with expanding the…