NASCAR is taking back the management of its online and mobile operations from broadcast partner Turner Sports following a steep slide in TV ratings. The league wants to use its digital platforms to help rekindle interest in the sport, which has suffered from flagging attendance.

With both the theatrical and home video channels in revenue decline, and amid panic that digital piracy will soon crest into a tidal wave, BTIG Research analyst Richard Greenfield says Hollywood must once and for all scrap its long-sacred policy of releasing movies in theaters several months before offering them…

The UltraViolet initiative left the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week with an important new retail channel in Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), a new marketing partnership to launch an upcoming ad blitz, and some splashy new hardware announcements from big consumer electronics brands including Samsung. But is Hollywood’s new…

Not too long ago, grazing the magazine bins was a perk of going to a trade show. But consolidation and closures mean fewer publications—and digital platforms offer access to the info without lugging around the ones that are left. Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.‘s solution at CES this year?

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…

The evolution of premium cable TV beyond the living room took another step this week, with Showtime introducing a streaming app to rival HBO Go. Missing, however, was a similar view-on-any-device announcement from Starz, the network that kick-started pay-cable’s entry into the streaming realm when it launched its Vongo movies-on-demand…

Samsung has rolled out a new line of Blu-ray players that support Ultraviolet, thus joining the ranks of entertainment brands that support the fledgling Hollywood studio-backed digital-locker initiative.

—Discovery Communications: Andrew Warren, former Liz Claiborne CFO and GE/NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Universal executive, joins as senior executive vice president and CFO, effective March 26. He succeeds Brad Singer, who is leaving the company at the end of March. As part of a larger restructuring following the elimination of the…

In Barnes & Noble’s largest Nook promotion yet, the bookstore chain is offering discounted or free Nooks to those who purchase one-year subscriptions to the Nook editions of People or the New York Times. It’s the first time a major retailer has offered an e-reader free with a content subscription.

Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is facing changes to its DVD business with two Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) programmers after months of CEO back-and-forth about the competition perceived and real between the subscription service and HBO.

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…

Some more detail appears to be emerging in the lead-up to Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) launching in the UK next year: in the midst of signing a series of key content deals, the streaming service looks like it could also be missing out on some of the most popular local TV…

A studio that has been a champion of stopping piracy is now facing awkward accusations that it showed counterfeit luggage in a hit movie.

Now it’s Verizon’s turn in the government spotlight. The U.S. Department of Justice plans to look into the recent deals that the wireless company has cut with several cable companies in order to obtain wireless spectrum, according to a report.

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is turning his attention now to social media: he and his investment group, Kingdom Holding Company, today became the latest investors in Twitter, putting up $300…

Last week, Verizon announced a $3.6 billion deal to buy wireless spectrum from cable operators and resell their pay-TV services. This week, Lowell McAdam, Verizon’s CEO, started to lay out how that deal will impact other services operated and sold by the carrier: it looks like it will not continue…

Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video - but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social network, it remains mostly a gateway to video hosted elsewhere.

Jeff Bewkes capped off a string of strange diatribes in which he has compared Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) to “the Albanian army” and “a hamburger” by concluding that the beleaguered movie rental service is “our friend.” The Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO made the remark this afternoon at an industry gathering…

When Digitas head Laura Lang starts her new job as CEO of Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) in January, she’s not only going to be filling the nine month vacancy left by Jack Griffin, who was ousted as CEO after less than five months. She’s also expected to fill the void…