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File this as more of a curiosity rather than hard-hitting news, but while watching 60 Minutes tonight, I noticed an on-air promo directing people to watch the episode’s interview with Dolly Parton on Fancast. Not at CBSNews.com, or CBS-owned (s CBS ) TV.com — but on […] Read more »

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Last.fm said yesterday that it will charge its non-U.S., UK and German visitors 3 euros (about $4) a month. Today the music discovery service says it’s also cutting off unofficial apps that are using Last.fm API, a move that has made many independent app writers pretty […] Read more »

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Traffic to the March Madness On Demand player during the first four days of the tournament already surpassed the traffic of the entire tournament last year, CBS Sports announced today. Here are the stats from the press announcement: NCAA March Madness on Demand traffic figures through […] Read more »

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CBS’s coverage of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is off to a strong start as the network announced today that more than 2.8 2.7 million unique visitors used the March Madness On Demand player during the first day of play yesterday. That 2.8 2.7 million is […] Read more »

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Former Wallstrip-per to Appear in CBS Web Series; Lindsay Campbell to pop up on the new web show Heckle U. (Silicon Alley Insider) New YouTube Mobile App Geared for Windows Mobile and Symbian Devices; app is much faster than before and optimizes video quality for you […] Read more »

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Zumobi Introduces American Idol App for iPhone; app gives users bios, pictures, news and 78 original videos from the remaining contestants. (Seattle Times) Harper’sGlobe.com Launches; web site is the home of EQAL’s new “social show” in support of the CBS TV program Harper’s Island. (Harper’s Globe) […] Read more »

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CBSSports.com says that its ad inventory for the upcoming March Madness On Demand (MMOD) is nearly sold out and that revenues generated by the web video product are approaching $30 million. CBSSports.com Senior VP and General Manager Jason Kint told MediaWeek that ad revenue would be […] Read more »

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CD Networks Buys Panther Express; one-time competitor to the likes of Akamai bought, rumor is that Panther was low on cash and rescued by CD Networks. (alarm:clock) Just in time, too because Media and Entertainment M&A Predicted to Get Worse in 2009. A new report from […] Read more »

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Finally, one of the networks has figured out that the iPhone represents a huge audience just waiting for some quality video content. CBS is the network in question, which must’ve gotten tech savvy when they acquired CNET a little while ago. They’re offering content, including full […] Read more »

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Watch Hulu on Your TV through Plex; those bummed over Hulu’s departure from Boxee may want to try this other XBMC-based project. (Zatz Not Funny!) Joost to Use Ooyala on Backend; video publishing service will provide ingestion, transcoding and metadata management tools to web TV site. […] Read more »

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Updated: Click here for links to webcasts of Obama’s 2010 State of the Union address. Technically, President Obama’s speech tomorrow night isn’t a State of the Union. Give the guy a break, he only started the job a month ago. Instead, his speech is considered a […] Read more »

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Netflix Pushes Streaming; CEO Reed Hastings says there may be a streaming-only level of the subscription service as early as this year. (Bloomberg) New partnerships allow Netflix subscribers to add and play movies directly from The New York Times and Rotten Tomatotes. (Netflix Blog) YouTube Adds […] Read more »

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In response to Hulu yanking its content from the CBS Interactive-owned TV.com video portal earlier this week, CBSissued the following statement last night: “CBS Interactive is well within its rights to stream Hulu video content on TV.com under its agreement with Hulu. We are evaluating our […] Read more »

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“Another one gone and another one gone, another one bites the dust.” First Hulu wiped its content from rival video portal TV.com, now comes word that Hulu is bowing to the demands of its content masters and has asked to be removed from Boxee‘s media center […] Read more »

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Hulu has pulled its content from rival television content portal TV.com, CNET has confirmed. Hulu’s decision to do so comes at a time when TV.com is on the rise, and Hulu must brace a potentially exclusive-less future. According to Nielsen, since TV.com relaunched to become more […] Read more »

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Hard to believe that the NCAA Mens’ Basketball March Madness Tournament is just around the corner — but it is, and this year CBS Sports is adding a high-quality viewing option to its March Madness On Demand (MMOD) video player. The new player uses Microsoft’s Silverlight […] Read more »

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Imagine: It’s early evening on a typical Wednesday, and you, a producer on a late-night talk show, are watching the show’s host interview a talented young actor about his upcoming film. Except that today, the talented young actor in question is either drunk, high, experimenting with […] Read more »

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For the first time, Nielsen has released public rankings of individual TV shows watched on network web sites. Lost was the big winner in December, pulling in more than 1.4 million viewers on ABC.com, followed by Saturday Night Live with 1.1 million viewers on NBC.com, and […] Read more »

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CBSSports.com Launches Countdown to Kick-off; the show will feature news, interviews and analysis with new episodes running daily from today through Saturday. (release) Hulu Held Up By Music Rights as Well; some episodes of shows go missing because the music used hasn’t been cleared for internet […] Read more »

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Rockefeller Proposes 3-Month DTV Delay; Democratic senator of West Virginia has introduced legislation that proposes pushing the transition date back to June 12 (The New York Times). Meanwhile, the FCC votes to implement the “analog nightlight” bill, which allows broadcasters to keep analog broadcasts up for […] Read more »

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The partnership between EQAL and CBS is starting to bear fruit, as the two media companies announced their new upcoming multi-platform “social show,” Harper’s Island. From the press release: HARPER’S ISLAND is about a group of family and friends who travel to a secluded island for […] Read more »

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Israeli Defense Force Using YouTube; the military is uploading videos to explain, in English and Arabic, their operations. (Variety) First Video Shot with G1 Phone…Sucks; garbled, “colored mess” is because the G1′s firmware has big problem with video codecs. (VentureBeat) Sanctuary Ends First Season on a […] Read more »

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As was expected, CBS is revamping TV.com to be a video-viewing destination. The well-URLed site, which six months ago started featuring Hulu content, has added CBS shows, and Monday is announcing deals for shows from MGM, Sony, PBS, Endemol USA and Showtime, according to reports tonight. […] Read more »

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Updated: God, it is starting to get really really depressing! After the big cuts at Yahoo yesterday, today the Silicon Valley was rocked by job cuts at CBS Interactive and its CNET division. CBS had acquired CNET in May 2008 for close to $1.8 billion. My […] Read more »

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CBSSports.com to Stream SEC Basketball Games Live; select games from the 2008-2009 SEC College Basketball regular season to be shown live online starting Dec. 13. (emailed release) YouTube Launches Abuse and Safety Center; will focus on providing tips and multimedia resources for dealing with cyberbullying, online […] Read more »

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Time to eat crow. My Crimson Tide lost to the Florida Gators over the weekend. While it was a heartbreaker, the enormity of this game gave me the opportunity to contact Jason Kint, senior vice president and general manager at CBSSports.com, to see how well it […] Read more »

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Flickr Mobile Adds Video Support; photo-sharing site implements QuickTime-compatible videos encoded in H.264 so they run on iPhones and iPod Touches. (VentureBeat) Netflix Streaming Having Video Issues; strange glitch diminishing video quality for some users of the Roku and Xbox. (CNET) What Is Vidding? Video series […] Read more »

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CBS Drops Moblogic; network stops creating new episodes; host Lindsay Campbell is still under contract with CBS, but evaluating new opportunities. (Moblogic: MediaMemo; Campbell: Beet.TV) Netflix on Xbox Missing Sony Movies; omission not because of ill will between competing game console makers, rather Netflix didn’t get […] Read more »

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Oh, Obama Girl. Go ahead and gloat. You’ve earned it. And corporate sponsorship is an unavoidable fact of online video these days, but Steve Bryant thinks that the new CBS digital series Novel Adventures is “about as subtle as E.T. dry-humping a Reese’s Piece.” Find out […] Read more »

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If you would have monitored more than 17,000 social media and social networking sites in the last week of September, looking at 3.5 million conversations per day and over 120 million unique users, you might have found that CBS’ Two and a Half Men took the […] Read more »

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Jobs on Apple TV: Still a “Hobby;” during earnings call Apple CEO says the whole digital living room category is still a hobby, and given current economic conditions, will remain so in 2009. (Zatz Not Funny) CBS and Saturn Partner for Web Series; Daphne Zuniga stars […] Read more »

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In the first big network content coup it’s gotten in a long time, YouTube got access to some full-length episodes of old CBS shows today. The shows — five episodes of Beverly Hills 90210 (the original), five episodes of MacGyver, five episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series, and 14 episodes of The Young and the Restless — will be accompanied much more advertising than YouTube has ever shown on a per video basis, including controversial (for YouTube) pre-roll ads. Read more »

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NBC.com Serves 29 Million Full-Episode Streams in Sept.; network says it got 25 million uniques, and 28.8 million short-form content streams were served. (TV By The Numbers) Powering a bunch of those views was Saturday Night Live, as a new study shows more than half of […] Read more »

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Addressing a crowd at the Mixx Conference in New York yesterday, CBS president and CEO Les Moonves said that the Internet was not cannibalistic to television, MediaWeek reports. “We view the Internet as a lab for our TV network,” Moonves said. Moonves said that the web […] Read more »

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The biggest drawback to the Netflix streaming service was its lack of quality content (unless you consider Improve Your Sailing Skills quality). But Netflix took a small step towards fixing that problem today by adding TV content from CBS and the Disney Channel. According to the […] Read more »

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