FilmOn, the premium-content internet streaming site that met controversy earlier this year over lawsuits involving CBS (NYSE: CBS), CNET, and copyright, is expanding its line up, adding two new sports channels for NCAA Basketball and NCAA Football.

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The challenges and opportunities of online video startup FilmOn continue apace. The internet-based premium video provider FilmOn, fresh from dropping a lawsuit against CNET, has now been re-listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange, trading under the ticker FMX. It delisted from the exchange back in 2009.

FilmOn founder Alki David has dropped his copyright infringement lawsuit against CBS (NYSE: CBS) and its CNET division for distributing Limewire file-sharing software, according to court filings. The move comes after the plaintiffs could only produce six works they say were infringed by CNET. But David, who is locked in…

FilmOn founder Alki David’s copyright lawsuit against CBS (NYSE: CBS) and CNET may be getting cut down to size—a not-very-big size. The judge overseeing the case asked David and his co-plaintiffs to come up with a list of their artistic works that they say were infringed because CNET distributed Limewire…

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FilmOn quickly got in trouble once it started broadcasting the programming of U.S. TV networks over the internet. As he began losing his court case, FilmOn founder Alki David created a bizarre video rant accusing CBS (NYSE: CBS) of “manipulating the minds of the youth” and distributing illegal software through…

When Quincy Smith left CBS, former CNET CEO Neil Ashe was the natural successor to head CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS). Now Zander Lurie, the unit’s EVP & CFO, is being promoted to SVP-strategic development for CBS, filling one of Smith’s other roles as in-house strategist for authentication and other initiatives.…

From my live Twitter coverage (sdkstl) of the CBS (NYSE: CBS) earnings call featuring Chairman Sumner Redstone, CEO Leslie Moonves, outgoing CFO Fred Reynolds, incoming CFO Joe Ianniello: »  Moonves: improvement has been very steady, very real. ... Q2 better than Q1, Q3 better than Q2. Signs of recovery gathering…

Add *CBS* CEO Leslie Moonves to the growing of media execs seeing signs of hope as the second quarter of 2009 hits the midpoint. Moonves told analysts on the company’s Q1 earnings call that CBS (NYSE: CBS) is “seeing early signs of improvement in the advertising market place both locally…

It’s not usually a good sign when your earnings report starts with a vote of confidence from the boss and is followed by an explanation about why the same quarter last year was so good. CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) lost $55.3 million, or $0.8 per share, in the first quarter,…

Second Life is still a vibrant virtual world—with over 12.2 million registered users and more than 54,000 online the last time I logged in—but you wouldn’t know it from the media coverage (or lack thereof) lately. It wasn’t always this way, as MediaShift’s Mark Glaser recounts, in a post covering…

Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. Pacific, Hulu pulled all of its video from TV.com, the recently relaunched CBS Interactive site.  A CBS Interactive spokeswoman told us this morning that no reason was given. Hulu’s terse statement suggests that both parties are aware of the rationale and that’s about all: “Hulu has…

We reported first on the CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) reorg and layoffs last night, and since then, it has been confirmed by the company, and some other bits of info have been trickling out. Now, from the internal memo sent out earlier today by CEO Quincy Smith (posted here at…

CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) is confirming paidContent’s earlier story that it is merging the newsrooms belonging to CBSNews.com and CNET into one. However, an emailed statement offered no specifics on layoffs or how the websites would be altered. The CBSI statement obliquely states the integration process between the two now…

CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), under pressure to cut costs after what now seems like an even more costly acquisition of CNET, is announcing some more restructuring tomorrow, we have learned from reliable sources late tonight, and as part of it, will be merging CBSNews.com and CNET newsrooms. Not clear: if…

CBS (NYSE: CBS) CEO Leslie Moonves raved about the value of the CNET acquisition and the integration since the merger with CBS Interactive, but told investors he wouldn’t make the same deal today. “The CNET deal was in May.…Life was very different. We would not be doing that acquisition today.”…

Patrick Keane, the former Googler who was the EVP and CM at CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), has been transitioning out of his position, and hasn’t been in office in the last month, sources have confirmed, following an earlier report from Mediamemo. He was brought in early last year by Quincy…

CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), the digital arm of CBS which incorporates *CNET* now, is laying off six editorial employees for a planned music site called Juke, which never launched (news was first reported by Idolator). The site was in works before CBS bought CNET Networks, and as the integration happened,…