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Frontier Communications is trying to find new ways to provide value to subscribers and is rolling out one of the most comprehensive video portals online. With TumTiki, Frontier is bringing together more than 700,000 video assets from a combination of traditional broadcast TV and online sources. Read more »

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Comedy Central heavily promoted its Roast of Charlie Sheen on Twitter, and it looks like the bet may have paid off: Twitter users commented more than twice as much about the roast than about the season debut of his former show Two and a Half Men. Read more »

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It’s time to dance: Netflix just added the first season of the toddler and indie music fan favorite Yo Gabba Gabba to its streaming catalog. The company also added new episodes of iCarly and a bunch of other content from Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and MTV. Read more »

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The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear attracted over 250,000 attendees, but those who didn’t brave the crowds still tuned in. Saturday’s live broadcast was watched by 2.0 million viewers, but there were 575,000 live streams — meaning that one-fifth of those who watched, watched online. Read more »

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This is what democracy looks like: Countless fans of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will come to the National Mall in Washington D.C. this Saturday to demonstrate for sanity and fear, respectively. Can’t be amongst them? Don’t worry, the entire spectacle will be streamed live online. Read more »

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The Gregory Brothers continue making strides towards world domination. Their latest hit Auto-Tune the News single, Bed Intruder, debuted at number 89 on the Billboard Hot 100 today, thanks solely to strong iTunes sales. And that’s not the only mainstream success they’ve had recently. Read more »

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Watching Conan O’Brien’s final Tonight Show last Friday got me thinking about the ritual of ending one’s day with late-night television, a way many of us no longer consume media thanks to digital options — especially those in the 18-34 demographic, the most eroded of late-night’s […] Read more »

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I’m going to say a small prayer now. Dear Lord, please please please make the upcoming pilot from Comedy Central and The Onion as awesome as it sounds, so it can be picked up for a full season. Amen. Comedy Central announced today that it is […] Read more »

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There hasn’t been much luck in building TV shows around web clips. Bombs like Online Nation and Web Junk practically killed the category, and we haven’t seen any attempts to bring the format back — that is, until now. Both Comedy Central and G4 have thrown […] Read more »

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With forever-and-a-day load times, a tiny screen, choppy streams and incessant ads before, between, and after clips, Comedy Central really kills (and not in a good way) its online video viewing experience. Which means it’s a total chafe to watch clips of The Daily Show and […] Read more »

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Major League Baseball Nabs Geo-location Patent; system will tell if MLB.TV users are in areas where games need to be blacked out. (Silicon Alley Insider) Felicia Day on Questions You Should Ask Before Starting a Web Series; new media mogul suggests figuring out how your project […] Read more »

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Atom.com is moving from its headquarters in San Francisco to relocate to Los Angeles, employees were told via an internal memo today. Of roughly 22 employees, all but two have been invited to move down with the company. It will be a phased move that will […] Read more »

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Obama Administration Classifies Draft of Copyright Treaty; White House says details of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement are being kept secret in the interest of national security. (CNET) Tim Armstrong to Become AOL Chairman and CEO; soon-to-be former Google ad exec still believes there is life left […] Read more »

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Cartman & Co. are headed for Netflix, as the movie rental company has signed a deal to stream the first nine seasons of South Park through its Watch Instantly service, reports The New York Times today. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have already […] Read more »

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Blockbuster Set-top Box Has Problems; slow-filling screens, password issues, and a DRM message said to hamper this movie rental service. (ZatzNotFunny!) Jokes.com Relaunched; Comedy Central brings back the bite-sized bits of stand-up with more than 5,000 clips from the likes of Demetri Martin, Sarah Silverman and […] Read more »

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Comedy Central to Relaunch Jokes.com; site will feature an extensive library of clips from the network’s stand-up archive. (Broadcasting & Cable) Kevin Rose to Interview Al Gore; will ask questions from the Digg community as part of the Digg Dialogg series. (Digg Blog) Babelgum COO Leaves […] Read more »

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Comedy Central Orders Secret Girlfriend Pilot; Freemantle Media’s first-person web show features hot girls talking to the camera; pilot will run just 11 minutes. (Broadcasting & Cable) CenturyTel to Buy Sprint Spin-off Embarq; deal worth $11.6 billion, combined company would have 400,000 video subscribers. (DSLReports) TV […] Read more »

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Hulu gets closer to its goal of offering all premium U.S. TV content with the announcement that it will carry Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with John Stewart and The Colbert Report starting today and PBS shows later this month. The two shows, which are Comedy […] Read more »

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Web TV company Joost has made two hires to help where it is sorely lacking — content. Danny Passman is the company’s new global head of programming strategy and John Schultz is now the director of programming strategy. Both were previously at vid sharing site Dailymotion. […] Read more »