Jon Miller, the chief digital officer for News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), described his company’s digital strategy today as very “focused on video”, with a view that even properties that come from a print tradition should be producing more video content than they are today.

A range of on-demand viewing options—and some new platforms to watch that content on—has traditional television watching on the run, right? Well, not quite. The average number of hours Americans spend every week sitting on the couch watching terrestrial, cable and satellite television continues to rise, according to a new…

Six Hollywood studios have urged the UK’s competition watchdog to throw out its assertion their Sky Movies deals are anti-competitive. But some of them are warming to its suggestion BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) should offer rival services like Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) over its own set top boxes.

Chinese online video giant Youku (NYSE:YOKU) today announced that it has inked a deal with none other than Twentieth Century Fox (NSDQ: NWS) Home Entertainment to license 250 films.

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 case has tawdry tidbits but also carries significant financial and creative implications for the broadcasters. Here’s a primer.

This is the last in a series of posts that highlighted key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from publishing to legal, and from mobile to advertising. Not too long ago, TV Everywhere was a bold concept being evangelized by Time Warner…

Gossip Girl is headed to Hulu Plus. On the heels of a past-season, library deal with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) that could be worth as much as $1 billion (if absolutely everything goes right), Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) and CBS (NYSE: CBS) will put current season episodes from the CW on…

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  The Challenges That Lie Ahead For Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) (paidContent) »  Survey: U.S. Tablet News Junkies Prefer Web To Apps, Few Have Paid (paidContent) »  Platform Wars: Internet Video Vs. TV (paidContent/Jim Louderback) »  How People Use Tablets and What…

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  Disney (NYSE: DIS), Fox (NSDQ: NWS) Commit To Hulu; Halt Sale Talks (paidContent) »  Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Closes $8.5 Billion Skype Buy; Four Countries Yet To Approve Deal (paidContent) »  Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) to Pay About $1 Billion for CW…

The continuing migration of audiences and ad dollars to digital has helped serve as a balm against growing economic fears that have resulted in downward revisions for total spending forecasts. But one other thing may be helping online: better, clearer relationships between the sell side and the buy side, according…

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…

For some time now, so-called patent trolls have aggressively targeted the biggest tech companies in the world. Now, they seem to be setting their sights on large media companies too. A shell company in Delaware is suing Bloomberg, the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Co and four other news giants…

Bitbop, the mobile video service once owned by News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and then sold in a whirr of a divestment strategy, looks like it is finding its feet again under new owner Jesta Digital. It’s now live with a mobile and PC-based mobile internet service in Germany, its first…

Big news for mobile TV pioneer MobiTV: the company has filed for an IPO worth up to $75 million, as it looks for funds to expand internationally, develop its products and potentially size up acquisitions.

Hulu’s first offering outside the U.S. is live: Hulu Japan, a subscription service with “hundreds” of films and thousands of hours of TV. For ¥1,480 a month or roughly $18.50, Japanese subscribers can watch across an array of devices just like U.S. subscribers of Hulu Plus with one exception—Hulu Japan…

At our paidContent Mobile conference in May, Andrew Stalbow and Peter Vesterbacka paired up to tout the value of a major studio partnering with a popular game developer on the successful Angry Birds Rio. Now Stalbow has shifted from SVP-Mobile for *Fox* Digital to working with Vesterbacka directly as the…

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  Aegis Group is selling its market-research unit Synovate to France’s Ipsos for £525 million ($861.2 million) in a move that will drastically change the future of the U.K. advertising and marketing group and make Ipsos the world’s third-largest market-research company.…

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…

Yesterday’s news that the Borders bookstore chain is going to be sold off—much of it probably at fire-sale prices—means that some of the nation’s biggest publishers are going to be taking a bath, financially. Five publishing houses are owed more than $25 million by the bookstore chain, and many others…