Is Cable's Long, Glorious Ratings Run Finally Over?
For more than three decades, cable TV programmers enjoyed steady ratings gains — mostly at the expense of broadcasters. Inspired efforts li… Read more at paidContent »
Is The Flat-Screen TV Boom Over?
The consumer electronics trend that had us shuffling out our perfectly good but perfectly bulky CRT televisions in favor of fancy-new flat s… Read more at paidContent »
SnagFilms Extends Distribution With Multichannel VOD And Streaming Deals
SnagFilms has already proven it can be profitable. But now, with several fresh rounds of funding, the indie video on demand service is tryin… Read more at paidContent »
UK VOD Regulator's Competency To Be Reviewed
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The UK’s controversial video-on-demand regulator, which has angered some web publishers by charging them to be regulated against their wishe… Read more at paidContent »
Chinese Theatrical Market Booms, But Real Action May Be In Video On Demand
The Motion Picture Association of America released statistics today saying that Chinese theatrical revenue grew 35 percent to nearly $2 bill… Read more at paidContent »
OWN's Lesson For Yahoo: Big Names Don't Necessarily Equal Hit Channels
As companies like Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) make big investments into video content channels with name-brand film and television talent, they might… Read more at paidContent »
Video: Vevo To Launch In Six More Countries, CEO Caraeff Says
The music distributor and service Vevo plans to triple its global footprint in 2012, CEO Rio Caraeff tells paidContent while answering quest… Read more at paidContent »
Aereo TV Will Stream For Months As Court Case Simmers
Aereo, the controversial technology that turns iPhones and iPads into portable TV sets and DVRs, will not disappear anytime soon despite eff… Read more at paidContent »
BSkyB's Internet TV Service Will Have A New Brand – 'Now TV'
UK pay TV platform leader BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) will take a bold step for its upcoming satellite-less, over-the-internet TV packages by launchin… Read more at paidContent »
The Good And Bad News From The Latest Pay TV Subscriber Figures
The good news for the traditional subscription TV industry: subscriber counts across the cable/satellite/telco television services industry… Read more at paidContent »
Video: The Future Of The Remote Control In The Age Of Internet TV
Wand, joypad, keyboard, trackpad, voice, mobile, wave, tablet or just plain ‘ol candybar? Which of these is the best way to navigate televis… Read more at paidContent »
BBC Overcomes Xbox Hurdles To Launch iPlayer With Kinect Control
The BBC has overcome Microsoft’s wish for iPlayer to be bundled with its paid Xbox Live Gold subscriptions.
The catch-up TV service on Tues… Read more at paidContent »
Nielsen, GroupM To Develop New Ratings Tool
As more people watch TV content on something other than TV, ad firms and their clients are eager for a tool that lets them analyze the succe… Read more at paidContent »
All3Media Bypassing Broadcasters, Aggregators On Connected TV Screens
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The connected TV revolution promises new distribution opportunities to content owners.
One, super-indie TV producer All3Media, is taking th… Read more at paidContent »
Mike Lang Leaving As Miramax CEO
Mike Lang has resigned as CEO of Miramax effective immediately, according to the film company. Lang, a former News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) exec i… Read more at paidContent »
Industry Moves: CNBC; NYT; MSLO; Starz Entertainment; m6d
– CNBC: Kevin Krim is CNBC’s new digital general manager, reporting to Mark Hoffman, president of CNBC (NSDQ: CMCSA). Krim comes from Bloom… Read more at paidContent »
Social TV's Zeebox Aims At U.S. Under Time Warner's Forbes
Second-screen social TV startup Zeebox has poached Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) Media SVP Jason Forbes to head its upcoming competition wit… Read more at paidContent »
Cisco Wants To Buy News Corp's TV Software Maker NDS For $5 Billion
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Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) says it wants to buy News Corp.’s TV set-top box software maker NDS Group for $5 billion to improve its own offering and… Read more at paidContent »
Almost All Pay-TV Subscribers Now Have Access To HBO Go
HBO’s luck may have run out Wednesday on its big Dustin Hoffman-led horse-racing drama, but it remains full speed ahead for the pay cable ne… Read more at paidContent »
What The CW's About-Face On Streaming Says About Piracy, Authentication
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While its relevance in the realm of traditional linear television is more questionable than ever, the CW’s youthful, digitally literate core… Read more at paidContent »
Live From New York, It's Aereo TV (For Now…)
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Aereo, a bold new service that brings broadcast TV and DVR to your iPad and iPhone, started its engines in New York City today — and the re… Read more at paidContent »
How Netflix's Hastings Could Get BSkyB Off An Anti-Trust Charge
The UK inquiry in to whether Sky Movies’ exclusive first-run subscription VOD deals with six major Hollywood major studios is anti-competiti… Read more at paidContent »
Youku And Tudou Merge To Create Chinese Online Video Powerhouse
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After threatening to sue each other for copyright infringement in December, the largest players in China’s fast-growing online video market… Read more at paidContent »
For Connected TV, The New Last Mile Is Dining Room To Living Room
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Last week, I lambasted Virgin Media for taking two years to launch its iPad TV guide for its TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set-top box.
I have since le… Read more at paidContent »
Diller To Networks: Get Radio Shack To Pay Retrans & Aereo Will Too
Barry Diller’s latest investment in media disruption hasn’t even launched yet and it’s already in court. That’s part of the appeal of Aereo… Read more at paidContent »
Why Aren't More People Cutting The Cord? Regional Sports Networks
This week, Major League Soccer introduced updated apps that let fans stream 230 live pro soccer games next season on iOS and Android mobile… Read more at paidContent »
BBC Plans iTunes Competitor With Download Fees For New And Old Shows
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The BBC is developing a radical scheme under which UK viewers would pay to download new and old BBC TV shows from a service it hopes will co… Read more at paidContent »
Virgin's TiVo Slow-Mo: An iPad App, Two Years Later
Talk about “agile development”! Virgin Media has finally put a September 2012 launch date on the long-promised iPad controller for its TiVo… Read more at paidContent »
Roku Needs To Raise $50 Million To Go Global
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Internet TV box service Roku is prepared to take on a big and high-risk new investment to support its international ambitions. Read more at paidContent »
Second Screen Must Find Its Own Voice To Redefine TV
For all the talk about TV’s “second screen” device experiences, so far they are mostly being used for social interaction around shows. But s… Read more at paidContent »
Sky's Internet TV Service Could Offer Pay-As-You-Go Shows
BSkyB’s upcoming over-the-top internet TV service could create a new post-subscription ecosystem for pay-per-view and pay-as-you-go TV shows… Read more at paidContent »
Chinese VOD Rush Continues – Lionsgate Signs Latest Deal
Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) became the latest Hollywood studio to make an online movie distribution deal in China, announcing Monday that it has r… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook TV Vote Slip-Up Earns Warning For Channel 5
The UK’s media regulator will consider the reliability of social networks as premium-rate TV interaction mechanisms, after Britain’s first e… Read more at paidContent »
Broadcasters Sue To Stop $12 Streaming Service Aereo
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Well, that was quick. Two weeks ago, media mogul Barry Diller announced an ambitious cloud-based TV service that streams over-the-air channe… Read more at paidContent »
Cord Cutting Can Wait: Subscription TV Added 343,000 Subs in Q4
Correction: A previous version of this story reported an increase of 343 million subs. We apologize for the error.
With the rise of Netflix… Read more at paidContent »
ITV Has Turned Around Online Fortunes With VOD, Next Comes New News Site
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UK commercial TV leader ITV (LSE: ITV) will launch a bold new news website this spring, will start trialling its delayed “Pay Player” this M… Read more at paidContent »
Reed Hastings: Netflix Will One Day Be Part Of Your Cable Bundle
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is usually cast as a cable competitor, but CEO Reed Hastings said he thinks cable will eventually become an on-demand i… Read more at paidContent »
Social TV Startup Zeebox Seeks Impact With TV Campaign
One of the nascent social TV space’s most interesting new second-screen software services will this week court mainstream users with a natio… Read more at paidContent »
The Plan By Yahoo, Hulu, Other Big Video Firms To Grab Upfront TV Ad Money
Madison Avenue’s upfront ad markets are the place where TV broadcasters and cable companies sell the bulk of their billions of dollars in co… Read more at paidContent »
Say Goodbye To Blockbuster Stores
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The Blockbuster brand emerged from the ashes of bankruptcy to have an impact on the bottom line of its new owner, Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH).… Read more at paidContent »
