News Website Silicon.com Set To Vanish After Almost 15 Years
The once high-profile technology news website Silicon.com is set to disappear after almost 15 years, as parent company CBS (NYSE: CBS) rolls…
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CBSi Chief: Staying off Hulu was the right strategic decision
CBS was the only major broadcaster not to join the Hulu consortium and make its shows available on the video site. But at GigaOM RoadMap, CBS Interactive president Jim Lanzone said he believed that keeping those videos on its own site was the right strategic decision.
Rubicon Brings In Three High-Profile Hires To Evolve RTB Efforts
The Rubicon Project has added three executives — including Jay Sears from ContextWeb, who recently declared the supply-side platform model…
CBS Brings In Starz’ Marc DeBevoise To Oversee Digital Entertainment
CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) has hired Marc DeBevoise as SVP and GM of its entertainment division, two months after Anthony Soohoo left that…
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CBS Revenues Dip Slightly Sans Super Bowl; Digital Publishing Sales Double
CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) turned in a pretty strong quarter on both cable and broadcast as it heads into the upfront. The absence of the Super B…
Anthony Soohoo Exits CBS Interactive
More changes in the executive suite at CBS (NYSE: CBS) Interactive: Anthony Soohoo, senior vp and general manager of entertainment, signaled…
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Interview: Neil Ashe On Why He’s Leaving CBS Interactive Now
If you’re looking for post-acquisition personnel drama a la MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) or frustration a la Dodgeball-Google (NSDQ: GOOG), don’t rea…
Neil Ashe Leaving As President Of CBS Interactive; Search Underway
CBS (NYSE: CBS) started the year with the departure of Quincy Smith as head of digital and will start the next one without Neil Ashe, presid…
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IBM Acquires Analytics Provider Netezza For $1.7 Billion
IBM is preparing to acquire Netezza, a company that runs analytics for data warehouse appliances, for $1.7 billion. Under the terms of the a…
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CBS Uses ‘Star Trek’ To Explore HTML5 Frontier
Star Trek Enterprise fans can watch any episode from Seasons 1-4 at CBS.com as long as their browser plays nice with Flash — or, as I reali…
CBS Interactive Display Revs Rise 19 Percent
As CBS and the other broadcast nets head into the heart of the upfront season, the ad recovery appears to be gaining momentum. The company’s…
Updated: CBSi’s Lurie Promoted To SVP-Strategic Dev Across CBS; Interview
When Quincy Smith left CBS, former CNET CEO Neil Ashe was the natural successor to head CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS). Now Zander Lurie, the u…
Tiger Metrics: Day One Masters Traffic More Than Doubles For CBSSports.com
Tiger Woods delivered on the course and online on the opening day of the 2010 Masters. The overall numbers are sure to be larger when Master…
Updated: iPad Rush: CBS, ABC Create Special Stream Formats; Madison Ave. Scrambles
TV networks and advertisers have been rushing to get ready for the release of Apple’s iPad on Saturday and from the looks of it, they all wi…
CBS’ Moonves And Redstone: Content Is King And TV Is The Jewel; Online Ads Rising In Q1
After some effusive praise for CBS’ cost containment and ability to withstand the economic downturn, Sumner Redstone, executive chairman, CB…
CBS Interactive Ads Slip 5 Percent, As TV Ad Spend Rises
In most cases, online is generally the bright spot on a company’s earnings report. But not in CBS’ case, as the Interactive segment’s 5 perc…
Interview: CBS Interactive’s Neil Ashe: Ad Nets Never Provided Value To Us
*CBS* Interactive’s move to curtail its dealings with ad networks effective today represents one of the key ways Cnet has influenced its par…
CBS Cuts Ties To Outside Ad Networks For Display, Launches Its Own
Updated: *CBS Interactive* is cutting the cord on third-party ad networks and some online ad exchanges effective immediately, paidContent ha…
Interview: CBS’s New Mobile Exec Rob Gelick Explains What’s Working And What’s Next For Wireless
CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) announced on Wednesday that Rob Gelick will be heading the company’s mobile division. We caught up with him to g…
CBS Brings Its Game Industry Data Service To UK
CBS’ games site GameSpot is bringing its industry intelligence-gathering service to the UK.
GameSpot Trax includes data from 4.5 million UK…
Industry Moves Roundup: Twitter; Discovery; CBS Interactive; CBS
— Twitter: Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) senior research scientist Utkarsh Srivastava — whose expertise is in building large-scale distributed system…
CBS Interactive Bets On New, Larger Ad Unit, ‘The Lightbox’
Recent reports have suggested that display advertising is experiencing a tentative comeback, thanks in part to the adoption of larger ad for…
CBS Interactive Launches Mobile Version Of MaxPreps.com
CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) is taking its MaxPreps.com high school sports website mobile. A new version of the site lets visitors submit sco…
CBSSports And Sports Illustrated Strike Print, Digital Content Deal
The difficult media landscape is encouraging more content companies to start sharing content. Today’s partnership comes from CBSSports.com a…
CBS Interactive's Smith: Authentication's Not Around The Corner
The concept of “TV Everywhere” won’t reach critical mass until perhaps 2014, according to some players, and even that date is uncertain, sai…
Legal Replay: Battle Over The Rights To Fantasy-Sports Stats Flares Anew
Different sport, same lawsuit. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court seemingly settled the issue of whether sports leagues could charge licensin…
@ EconAffinity: CBS’ McManus: We Will Not Sacrifice TV Revenue For More Online Viewing
Don’t expect to be able to watch the Super Bowl live online anytime soon, Sean McManus, president, CBS (NYSE: CBS) News & Sports, told Staci…
Wolfgang’s Vault President, CBS Interactive CFO To Be EconSM Keynote Interview
Digital-music companies play a major role in the evolution of the mobile social market, and we’ve lined up executives from two key companies…
CBS Pulls Last.fm, Radio Into Interactive Music Group; CBS Radio’s Goodman In As Unit’s President
CBS (NYSE: CBS) is bringing all its online music units together under one roof, the company said. The new unit, the CBS Interactive Music Gr…
Industry Moves: Patrick Keane Is Associated Content’s New CEO
Former *CBS* Interactive and *Google* exec Patrick Keane will head up online publishing service Associated Content. Luke Beatty, Associated…
Last.fm Puts Pay Wall Around Streams In Some Markets
Fifteen months after it first announced the feature, Last.fm is finally introducing a premium subscription model worth its name, as it tries…
Broadband Content Bits: Final Four On TV.com; CareerTV/Fox Business News; YouTube's Analytics
— TV.com gets NCAA clips and more: CBSI’s video portal keeps adding new content partners. The latest deals give sports fans access to the…
Updated: Industry Moves: CondéNet; CBSI; SupplyFrame; Denver Post; Dailymotion; Real Time Matrix
— CondéNet International: CondéNet International, the global digital division of magazine giant CondéNast, is searching for a new presid…
Industry Moves: CBS Interactive; Rodale; Birst; Afar
— *CBS* Interactive: Another ex-Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) changing course … Jennifer Vescio started at CBSI this week as VP of business developm…
CBS Responds To Hulu In Equally Terse Terms: 'Well Within Rights'
Granted, CBS was a little busy with earnings Wednesday but it took the company a day to come up with a comeback to Hulu’s assertion that it…
Earnings: CBS Slashes Dividend; Q4 Interactive Revenues Up Scant 1 Percent
How much was CNET Networks worth to CBS (NYSE: CBS) in Q408? About $25 million in operating income, give or take a few thousands. Without CN…
Hulu's Statement On Pulling Video From CBS Interactive's TV.com: 'Exercising Contractual Rights'
Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. Pacific, Hulu pulled all of its video from TV.com, the recently relaunched CBS Interactive site. A CBS Interactive sp…
Updated: Hulu's Content No Longer Available On CBS-Owned TV.com; What About Other Partners?
Update: CBS (NYSE: CBS) says that Hulu pulled its videos from the site. A spokeswoman said the video JV didn’t give a reason. No response ye…
Broadband Content Bits: Letterman; SI.com/Swimsuits; Netflix
— *CBS* pushes Letterman clip online for more buzz: The clip of actor Joaquin Phoenix’s odd behavior on the Late Show with David Letterman…
It’s Been A Year Since AOL’s Big Widget Play, But How Real Is The ‘Widget Economy’?
This time last year, VC firms had already invested nearly $60 million into widget-related companies like Slide and WidgetBox. *AOL* got caug…
Watching The Grammys: No Live Streaming But Lots Of Twittering, Gossip And Promos
Watching the 51st Annual Grammy Awards and anyone who’s watching it too will understand why I’m not paying full attention. Disappointing bec…
Broadband Content Bits: Netflix/Xbox; ‘Washington Unplugged’; Slotcar; Video Stats; Doritos/YouTube
— Xbox owners flock to *Netflix*: *Netflix* says one million Xbox 360 users have “activated” its streaming video service on their console.…
CBS Interactive Sees Opportunity In The Downturn; Launching MoneyWatch.com (Yes, It Sounds Familiar)
Those with long-enough memories (that’s years, not decades, in net time) may do a doubletake when they see the latest cross-platform venture…
CBS Expands Verizon FiOS Deal; VOD For TV, Full Episodes For VCast
CBS (NYSE: CBS) is broadening its deal with Verizon (NYSE: VZ) to include VOD rights for programs in both standard and high-def formats, 60…
WallStrip Crashes: CBS Ceases Production Of Video Show
CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) is pulling the plug on WallStrip, the comedic online financial news show it acquired less than two years ago, PE…
More Info On CBS Interactive Reorg From Internal Memo, Including The Merging Of Some Units
We reported first on the CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) reorg and layoffs last night, and since then, it has been confirmed by the company, and…
CBS Interactive Confirms CBSNews.com/CNET Newsroom Combo; No Word On Layoffs
CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) is confirming paidContent’s earlier story that it is merging the newsrooms belonging to CBSNews.com and CNET int…
CBS Interactive To Merge CBSNews.com and CNET Newsrooms; Some Layoffs
CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), under pressure to cut costs after what now seems like an even more costly acquisition of CNET, is announcing so…
CBSSports.com Streaming College Football Online, Mobile; Silverlight Tryout For March Madness?
A heavy Saturday coming up for CBSSports.com, including streaming the Southeastern Conference (SEC) championship between unbeaten Alabama an…
Earnings Call: Redstone Explains Sale Of CBS, Viacom Shares; Moonves: CNET Propels Interactive
Beginning CBS (NYSE: CBS) Corp.’s Q3 earnings call, Sumner Redstone, the company’s executive chairman, noted that CBS is operating in one of…
Earnings: CBS Swings To Loss On 12.5 Billion Write-Down; Q3 Revs Rise 3 Percent
True to its warnings about lower earnings earlier this month, CBS (NYSE: CBS) Q3 net earnings from continuing operations came in with a loss…
Ad Industry Roundup: CBS; WPP; Kiplingers; Political Ad Spend
— CBS’ new web series stars… Saturn?: Novel Adventures, an original web series being rolled out the CBS (NYSE: CBS) Audience Network next…
CBS Interactive Hopes To Gather TV Viewers And Web Users In ‘Social Viewing Rooms’
While the data on how many viewers are watching TV and surfing the web simultaneously has been a little thin the past few years, CBS Interac…
Backatcha: NFLPA Responds To CBS Interactive With Fantasy Sports Lawsuit Of Its Own
Last week, CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) sued the National Football League Players Association in U.S. District Court in Minnesota over the ri…
Updated: Rain-Delayed US Open Men’s Final Streaming Live On CBSSports.com, USopen.org; U.S. Only
Update: CBS (NYSE: CBS) Sports told me this afternoon that access to the match would be “wide open” with no blocking but that’s not the case…
CNET: We’re Gettin’ It Done, Under CBS
CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), the don’t-call-us-CNET (NSDQ: CNET), has reported some Comscore (NSDQ: SCOR) numbers on its first month under t…
Last Days Of CNET: CBS Successfully Completes First Tender Offer
No surprise: CNET (NSDQ: CNET) shareholders are tendering their shares over to CBS (NYSE: CBS). Approximately 78 percent of CNET shares have…
ABC Considers Major Online Newscast Overhaul; CBS Looks To CNET, Celebs For Boost
When it comes to all the tropes the broadcast networks continue to cling to, the national evening news shows are arguably the most in need o…
Lunch With Yahoo: We Have Plans; Decker: Narrowing Search Rev Gap — With A Little Help From Google
Combining the aspects of a press conference with speed dating, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) president Sue Decker, along with Mike Walrath, SVP, Yahoo…
CBS Expands Audience Network Reach With Yahoo Deal — Now People Have To Watch
With the addition of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) to the *CBS* Audience Networks confirmed today, CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) can claim 92 percent und…
CBS Interactive Promises “HD” Look To Video Player Content
CBS Interactive has upgraded its video player, though the full effects won’t be immediately available, the company said in an email press re…
CBS Launching New College Sports Ad Net; Pulls Remnants
Wednesday morning the *CBS* College Sports Network plans to announce the newest rider on the ad network bandwagon and the latest drain on re…
CBS Gets Backdoor Into Hulu, Sort Of; Hulu Expands Distribution
During the TV upfront period, which began last week, online publishers have realized they have to try a little harder to capture advertisers…
CNET All-Hands: ‘Very Few’ Redundancies; CBS Interactive To Be Folded Into CNET
As noted this morning, CNET (NSDQ: CNET) is holding an all-hands meeting this afternoon (1:30 ET), a chance for CEO Neil Ashe and CBS (NYSE:…
CNET-CBS: Making The Case To The CNET Troops; Not Sure About CNET Networks Brand
Yesterday CNET (NSDQ: CNET) CFO Zander Lurie pitched the company’s sale to investors, but really, how hard is it to justify a deal that deli…
JPM Tech Conference: CNET: CFO Zander Lurie On CBS Sale; Cross-Selling And Promotion; Scale; TV.com
During a Q&A with analyst Imran Khan at the JPM Technology Conference, CNET CFO Zander Lurie had one major topic to discuss: the company’s r…
CBS-CNET: Ad Execs Bless The Marriage, Adding ‘CBS Isn’t Getting Any Younger’
As a TV company, CBS (NYSE: CBS) has long skewed older, a notion CEO Les Moonves has both embraced and bristled at. The company’s $1.8 billi…
Video: Larry Kramer On CBS-CNET: Pressure On Quincy; CBS To Bring Big Brand Ads To CNET
Larry Kramer was there from the start when CBS (NYSE: CBS) started getting serious about digital with the predecessor to what became CBS Mar…
CBS-CNET: Merger Details; Exec. Compensation
If you haven’t had your fill yet of CBS (NYSE: CBS) and CNET (NSDQ: CNET), then check out their big 8-K getting down into the nitty gritty o…
CBS-CNET: The Logic Of The Deal
CBS’ (NYSE: CBS) acquisition of CNET (NSDQ: CNET) for $1.8 billion is already prompting some predictable shoulder shrugging from folks wonde…
CBS-CNET Call: $1 Billion CBSI Revs In 2010-2011; Mid-Teen Revenue Growth
Kicking off the conference call, CBS (NYSE: CBS) CEO Les Moonves touted the rare opportunity to purchase an internet company of this size an…
CBS-CNET: Our Coverage In Links
CBS Corp.’s (NYSE: CBS) purchase of CNET (NSDQ: CNET) Networks for $1.8 billion comes amid a lot of change and drama at both companies from…
CBS Interactive Reorganizes Under Pressure To Show Results
Under pressure to deliver on all that promise and investment, Quincy Smith is adding layers and shuffling responsibilities in a reorganizati…
CBS Interactive Opening Menlo Park Office; Big Acquisition Needed?
CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), the digital media arm of CBS, is finally opening up a fully staffed office in Menlo Park, CA, in an apparent at…
Making (Lots Of) Money From Online Video Will Be Top Of Mind At NAB
Expect a lot of talk this week at the National Association of Broadcasters’ Las Vegas conference about the same thing constantly on broadcas…
Industry Moves: Roeding Leaves CBS Mobile; Sellinger Promoted To EVP & GM
A change-up at CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) … Cyriac Roeding “has decided to leave his post heading the division to pursue various entrepre…
Updated: CBS Starts Hyperlocal Ad Network With O&Os; Effective CPMs Of About 50 Cents
The CBS Television Stations group is trying to build on its local strengths by offering a revenue-sharing partnership with local bloggers an…
@ Media Summit: CBS’ Moonves: We Still Like Hulu, But We’ll Continue Going It Alone – For Now
As a self-described “old TV guy,” Les Moonves, president and CEO, CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS), probably has some personal reasons to feel mildly d…
CSTV Rebrands To Go With Re-Org: CBS College Sports Network
Effective this March, CBS (NYSE: CBS) will rebrand College Sports Television (CSTV) as CBS College Sports Network. The move follows last mon…
Broadband Content Bits: 2007's Most Pirated; YouTube/CBS; Hupo
— Most Pirated: A popularity list studios and networks might prefer to miss — TorrentFreak’s top 10 most illegally downloaded movies and…
More On CBS Interactive Layoffs: StarTrek.com Team Vaporized
Turns out the staff of StarTrek.com has been beamed out of CBS (NYSE: CBS) Interactive … according to a post on the site, “the production…
Industry Moves Roundup: Sun-Sentinel; CN; Orlando Sentinel; The Orchard; HipCricket; Google; CBS
— Sun-Sentinel: Tribune-owned South Florida Sun-Sentinel has undertaken a major restructuring of its online unit. Kathy Skipper, the websit…
@ UBS Media Week: Poltrack: TV Viewership Not Diminished By DVR, Internet Use
As he has for the past few years, Dave Poltrack, president of *CBS* Vision, attempted to make the case to a morning audience at the UBS Glob…
TV Networks’ Online Ad Inventory Unexpectedly Opens
Thanks to rising online viewership and the nature of broadband audience agreements with advertisers, the major TV networks have a lot more a…
AOL And CBS Put Online HD Video Efforts On Hold
While HD maybe catching on with TV audiences, when it comes to online, some viewers just can’t be bothered. At least that’s what AOL (NYSE:…
CBS Hedges Bets With Online Studio EyeLab For Short-Form, Ad-Supported Video
As more TV networks try various ways of presenting and distributing long-form videos online, CBS (NYSE: CBS) is taking a small step backward…
Broadband Content Bits: CBS Audience Network; My Damn Channel-MySpaceTV; Warner Bros.; Online HDTV
CBS Interactive Taps Affiliates For Hyperlocal Reach: CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) is gathering the CBS-owned television, radio and affiliate…
Shifting Course, ABC Explores Syndicating Online Video; Similar To CBS, Hulu
ABC (NYSE: DIS) is taking an about face on its initial plans to serve as the sole distributor of its streaming content, Mediaweek reports. T…
Most Broadcasters Prep New Shows For Online Previews, Though ABC Abstains
As the fall TV season approaches, most broadcasters are hoping to lure viewers by heavily promoting downloads of the new shows. The Hollywoo…
CBS SportsLine Rebrands As CBS Sports
CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) has retired the SportsLine brand, one of the oldest in the short history of online sports, in favor of CBSSports…
Industry Moves: DJ-Ingrassia; CBS Interactive Sales
— News Corp’s (Nasdaq: NWS) Dow Jones (Nasdaq: DJ) takeover has claimed its first top-level personnel casualty. DJ VP of news strategy Paul…
IAB Intends To Develop Single Standard For Audience Measurement For Web Video
Now that the Interactive Advertising Bureau has settled its dispute over general audience measurement ratings with comScore and Nielsen/NetR…
SoundExchange Has A Beef With CBS-Last.fm’s Music Royalties
SoundExchange, the body that collects music royalties for artists and which lobbied the Copyright Royalties Board for internet radio rate hi…
Last.fm Sitting Out Net Radio Day Of Silence
Last.fm will not be participating in Tuesday’s internet radio Day Of Silence. Some members of the site have called on the new CBS acquisitio…
OurChart: 72,000 Registered Users, 550,000 Monthly Uniques; Edgy Webisodes
I’ve been following OurChart.com, The L Word social net spin-off since its January launch, intrigued by the possibilities of a community evo…
Industry Moves: CBS Adds Two To Audience Network
Joe Ferreira is being moved over from CBS Sportsline.com and has been named SVP and GM of online video syndication system The CBS Audience N…
Series Gets a Reprieve From CBS After Online-Led Protest
CBS has been preaching audience and tonight Nina Tassler, president of CBS Entertainment, backed it up by bringing back a canceled series wi…
CBS-Last.fm: Think Community, Not Just Music
CBS spent $280 million in cash to acquire Last.fm, which claims 15 million-plus active users in more than 200 countries. The potential isn’t…
CBS Interactive Embraces Embedding And All The Right Buzz Words
This has been percolating for weeks … another batch from CBS Interactive to show movement on a key front with its new CBS Audience Network…
It’s Official: CBS Interactive Acquires Wallstrip
Not on anyone’s blockbuster list but CBS Interactive made official today its acquisition of fledgling financial news site and daily web show…
Updated: CBS Buying WallStrip; Innertube a Failure; Distributed Player Shipping Now
So said two reports, and we have confirmed it through a high-level source…financial video blog WallStrip is in the process of being acquir…
Industry Moves: Wright Heads Turner’s Content Creation Group; CBS Interactive Adds Research Power
Turner: Michael Wright, head of original programming for TNT and TBS for the past several years, has been promoted to SVP of the reorganize…
Industry Moves: Kint To CBS SportsLine From Sporting News; Spiers Leaves Dead Horse Media
CBS Sportsline: This announcement actually caused a double take … Jason Kint leaves The Sporting News after 11 years to become SVP/GM of C…
Interview, Part 1: Quincy Smith, President, CBS Interactive: ‘Innertube Just Became OuterTube’
The CBC Interactive Audience Network moved from idea to execution — at least, announcements — in the span of 8 days or so, according to Qu…
@ OPA: CBS Explodes Video But Polices YouTube
CBSNews.com SVP/GM Betsy Morgan said the company was fixed on sharing its videos on sites around the web, having realized it needed to give…
MMOD: Clock Counting Down To NCAA-CBS Hoop-a-thon
The countdown clock to “Selection Sunday” is ticking down, bringing us closer to the second go round for ad-supported March Madness on Deman…
Industry Moves: Patrick Keane New EVP & CMO, CBS Interactive
Quincy Smith continues to build the senior staff at CBS INteractive … Patrick Keane is joining as EVP & CMO of CBS Interactive with the ch…
CBS Creates Cross-Platform Ad Sales Unit
The CBS acronym department must have been working overtime on this one: the network is introducing its new cross-platform unit, RIOT, which…
CBS Plans Online Programming Strategy for Fall; In Time For Possible Online Upfront?
CBS plans to expand its strategy of making new fall shows available online before showing them on the TV network, network research chief Dav…
YouTube Allows CBS, Others To Edit, Place Comments
The NYT picks up on one of the non-copyright issues at YouTube — manipulation of user comments. Instead of using the YouTube template that…
@ Sports Media & Tech: New Media’s Role In Sports Business — NFL, Mobile ESPN, Users
More from a busy first day at the Sports Media & Technology Conference in New York … The heads of digital operations for some of the large…
Interview: Quincy Smith, President, CBS Interactive
Quincy Smith is the digital man of the hour at CBS, the president of newly created company-wide CBS Interactive tasked with ensuring that CB…
Quincy Smith President Of New Company-wide CBS Interactive; Larry Kramer Out As Head Of CBS Digital
CBS is switching gears in digital, opting for someone with more of a rep for making deals than building companies. In: Quincy Smith as presi…
Earnings: CBS’s Moonves: Hundreds Of Millions In ’07 Digital Revenue; No Major Buys
CBS expects to generated hundreds of millions of dollars in digital revenue next year, CEO Les Moonves said during today’s 3Q ea…
Earnings: CBS 3Q Profit Plunges; Moonves Touts Digital
CBS said its 3Q profit plunged 55 percent amid declines in its radio and its home entertainment businesses. Net inome was $316.9 million, or…
NFL Ends Deal With CBS; Opts For DIY Model
As we suggested a while back would be the case, the National Football League has decided it doesn’t need any help to run its online operatio…
Media Deal Monday: GOOG-YouTube Announce Content Deals While Watchers Wait For Big One
Amid another flurry of reports/rumors/spec that a Google acquisition of YouTube will announced as early as today, the two companies have ann…
OMMA East: Lots Of Content But Not Content
The OMMA East content super panel was dominated to a great extent by the POV of moderator Michael Wolff, columnist for Vanity Fair, who posi…
Fall TV Online: CBS-WBTV-Google; NBCFirstLook.com, NBC 24/7
Updated: This may be the first season where more new shows debut online than not. Whatever the final total, it’s clearly the first fall TV s…
Broadband Content Bits: NBA China Video; FieldHockey.tv; YourKindaTV Launch
— NBA China adds bells & whistles: NBA is expanding video content on NBA.com/China, its Chinese-language site, adding 87 webcasts including…
Fall TV: CBS, NBC Premieres On Yahoo; Tail Wags Dog At Nick
We may have to make a list of shows that aren’t premiering online, quite a twist from years past. New CBS show “Jericho” (one of the shows b…
CBS Will Stream 9/11 Documentary Online As Stations Fret About FCC
With some 10 percent of the CBS affiliates refusing to show repeat documentary “9/11” in prime time because of possible FCC profanity fines,…
Watching Katie Couric Live Online — Finally; CBSNews.com Traffic Doubled For Debut
It took a couple of tries including an odd warning screen but I finally saw the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric in live simulcast tonight…
Watching Katie Couric’s Debut Online — Not
This was going to be a post about how the overnight ratings numbers for Katie Couric’s CBS Evening News debut won’t be close to complete sin…
CBS Gets Cross Studio Deals For Online Shows Streaming
A week after announcing its online ad-supported show streaming plans starting this fall, CBS has announced some more deals, these ones signi…
Industry Moves: Nets Appoint Top Digital Entertainment Execs; Barzilay To CBS Digital, Zigler Promot
Updated: CBS Digital and NBC Universal each announced Monday key executive appointments to newly created positions designed to handle the bo…
Couric’s CBS Evening News Will Be Simulcast Online
Two days after CBS announced its primetime programming would be available online 24 hours after airtime, the network announced that the “CBS…
CBS Left Unions Out Of Prime-Time Streaming Plans
Hollywood’s unions play the role of last to know in network online streaming scenarios. This time CBS left the DGA, SAG and WGA out of the n…
CBS Does An ABC: Streaming Primetime Shows Online In Fall; Ad-Supported
Starting in September, CBS prime-time programs will be on its ad-supported broadband channel Innertube…episodes will be posted the morning…
Google’s Approach To (Some) Content Matures; Google Video Gets Home-Page Boost
When Google and Viacom announced their video ad trial and download deal last week, I asked a spokesman if that meant the search company had…
Industry Moves: Gersh Leaves CBS Digital For MLBAM SVP-Biz Dev
George Kliavkoff’s move to chief digital officer at NBCU has set off a game of musical execs … Kenneth Gersh will succeed Kliavkoff as the…
Breaking Up Was The Easy Part For Viacom and CBS; Making It Pay Is Another Story
On the heels of tough reports from analysts Richard Greenfield and Aryeh Bourkoff, both the NYT and the WSJ (sub. req.) picked this weekend…
BBC’s Big Restructuring Coming Today; New Media Expansion
The big BBC restructuring plan is coming today, at 10 AM GMT…part of the plan includes the merger of the production and TV divisions under…
TCA Tour: Comedy Central, TV Land; Broadband Econ; CBS & YouTube
— Comedy Central, TV Land Surf at TCA: MTVN’s nets Comedy Central and TV Land broke with press tour tradition by emphasizing broadband. TV…
CBS News Offers Clips For Custom DVDs Via Amazon
CBS is partnering with Amazon and its on-demand DVD subsidiary CustomFlix Labs for custom DVDs of CBS News clips. Customers can pick up to…
CBS Affiliates Reach Deal On NFL, Digital
CBS will have more flexibility with off-network content — downloads, VOD, streaming, etc. — under the terms of a revenue-sharing agreemen…
Industry Moves: Stark Leaves Gartner For VP/EP, CNBC.com
Meredith Stark has been appointed VP and executive producer of CNBC.com, effective immediately. Stark joins CNBC from Gartner, Inc., where s…
AOL’s KOL Will Co-Produce Morning CBS Saturday Morning Kids Block
An interesting opportunity for AOL to expand brand awareness … KOL, aka AOL for kids, and DIC Entertainment are teaming up to co-produce “…
CBS To Launch Entertainment Site Showbuzz
So is the word from USAT, even though the site is not yet online: CBS’s digital arm is launching a new website focused on entertainment news…
CBS: iTunes Deal Shows Growing Comfort; May Change Google Video Deal
Today’s announcement that CBS was adding primetime programming — including “CSI” and “Survivor” — to iTunes made me wonder what happened t…
CBS, Affiliates Still Working On New Media, NFL Issues
Judging from various reports, CBS CEO Leslie Moonves’s message to affiliates at the annual meeting in Las Vegas this week followed much alon…
Four ABC Affiliates Will Participate In Streaming Trial
ABC has shifted gears — at least public gears — and will include four affiliates in the two-month streaming video trial that began May 1.…
First Look: CBS Innertube
Not a lot to look at yet. Three featured pieces to start — “Geek To Chic” (13:231), “Beyond Survivor” (4:11), “Survivor Live” (55:55). One…
CBS Innertube: “Love Monkey” Returns; “Lucy” and “Brady Bunch” Could Show Up
Yes, it’s true. Broadband will breathe some life into “Love Monkey” … the show that couldn’t last on the air will reprise on new CBS broa…
CBS To Debut Broadband Channel; Upfronts In Mind
CBS is supposed to launch a broadband channel today, with an eye on ad upfronts in two week…the channel will have mainly original content,…
From NAB: Illustrating The CBS Online O&O Push
Last week, I mentioned looking for a link to a striking promo video from CBS4.com aired at NAB. The video shows tech reporter Dave Malkoff e…
Earnings: CBS’ Lower Q1 Profits; Mobile To Bring $3 Million; NCAA Streaming $4 Million
CBS reported lower Q1 profits compared with a year ago, before it had split up with Viacom. On a comparable basis, earnings were flat as bet…
@ NAB: RTNDA: On-Demand News Still At The Beginning
The first appearance by Vivian Schiller since her appointment at GM of NYTimes.com was announced yesterday … Other panelists include Jonat…
CBS’ Rockstar in MSN Deal Again; Partial Online Webcasting
From MIPTV: MSN has tied up with with Mark Burnett Productions to show one of three weekly episodes of the summer reality TV series RockStar…
Interview: Cyriac Roeding, VP, CBS Mobile: Think Upstream, Not Just Downstream
An interview I did on MocoNews.net, in advance of CTIA, with Cyriac Roeding, the VP heading CBS’s mobile content efforts. It seems as if CBS…
FiOS Update: Verizon Will Pay CBS For Retrans; Claims More Than 30 Percent Of First Market
When CBS was joined at the hip with Viacom’s MTV nets, retransmission rights for the network’s owned-and-operated stations were usually tied…
March Madness On Demand: Interview: Kramer: “It’s Our Final Four”
As the final seconds of the last second-round game ticked off the clock Sunday night, Larry Kramer talked about the network’s massive ad-sup…
CBS’s NCAA March Madness Day One Numbers: 268,000 Simultaneous Streams
Staci will have more on this later, but some preliminary numbers on the March Madeness games streaming which started today online: CBS says…
March Madness: CBS Already Ahead Of Last Year’s Sub-only Online Package
Last year, roughly 25,000 people paid CSTV.com $19.95 for live streaming of March Madness. It didn’t cover the cost of licensing the tourney…
CBS Will Sell Condensed, Full-length Versions Of March Madness Games On iTunes
Call it March Money Madness. CBS is pulling out the stops to make new media money with the NCAA Div.1 men’s basketball tournament. In additi…
CBS Sues Stern, Agent, Sirius Over On-Air Publicity
CBS CEO Les Moonves continues his search for new revenue streams by suing Howard Stern, the former radio star’s agent and the satellite radi…
Networks Grapple With YouTube; CBS’s Turn
Updated: The response when CBS News told the story of an autistic teen’s triumph on the basketball court was so extraordinary, the network r…
More On News Corp, CBS, Viacom Mobile Deals
The NYT headlines did what News Corp. and CBS hoped for, launching a wave of coverage of mobile deals that might otherwise slide right past…
CBS Launches Mobile Video Alerts
CBS joins News Corp. today with the launch of new a b2c mobile effort (and dueling news breaks in the Times). CBS is pitching news alert sub…
Earnings: CBS Corp’s $9 Billion Loss
CBS Corp reported its first earnings as the new independent unit, and not much about new media numbers, only assertion that they take new me…
iTunes Update: 12 Million-Plus Video Downloads; Three Showtime Series Added To Library; New Nano
It’s fun with numbers time. (My math teachers would get a good laugh out of this.) Some new iTunes’ download info: — In a press release ann…
CBS Goes Direct With Survivor Shows
In what is being touted as a first, CBS has gone direct with the sale of its hit show Survivor, on its own website CBS.com. Till now, show d…
CBS Launches New Research Division; Studying Digital Media
CBS has created a new, expanded research division, CBS Vision, naming longtime CBS research exec David Poltrack to head it as president.
The…
@ NATPE 2006: WB, UPN To Merge, Form CW Network
Still trying to parse the details but CBS and Time Warner’s Warner Brothers Entertainment are closing their second-tier broadcast nets UPN a…
Viacom Split Final; Two Digital Players Emerge
Officially, the two separate companies will start trading separately tomorrow…Viacom and CBS Corporation. Check out the new CBS Corp webs…
CBS, Yahoo Tie-Up On Streaming Multi-Studio Comedy Shows Online
CBS has tied up with Yahoo to stream episodes of its hit comedy series “Two And A Half Men” and “How I Met Your Mother.” This is perhaps the…
Infinity Broadcasting To Re-brand As CBS Radio (sub. req.)
The rebranding announcement is part of the series of pre-split moves being made by what will be “new” Viacom and CBS. This puts the radio gr…
CBS, Verizon Wireless Video Deal: A First For CBS
A variety of CBS video will start showing up on Verizon V Cast this month in the network’s first mobile content deal. Offerings include vide…
AOL, CBSNews.com In Content Deal
CBSNews.com video and text news will be integrated throughout AOL.com, the AOL News channel and featured on the front page of the AOL servic…
Industry Moves: Andrew Heyward Out As President, CBS News; Sean McManus To Oversee News And Sports
Sean McManus, president of CBS Sports since 1996, adds president of CBS News to his portfolio Nov. 7 following the long-rumored departure of…
Affiliate Agreements Not the Only Thing Keeping Some Network News Offline
Affiliate agreements guaranteeing exclusivity for some content are one explanation for the lack of streaming contemporaneous news content on…
Goldman Sachs Communacopia: Leslie Moonves, Co-COO, Viacom
Sensitive to its pending split, Viacom filed the transcripts of Communacopia presentations by co-COOs Tom Freston and Leslie Moonves. From t…
ML Media Conferece: Les Moonves, Co-COO, Viacom
Les Moonves, Viacom’s co-COO (and in line to be the CEO of the new spinoff with CBS Corporation) spoke at the Merrill Lynch Media & Entertai…
CBS SportsLine Plans Include Considerable Podcasting
It isn’t as sexy as free video but podcasting plays a role in the integration of CBS SportsLine with CBS Digital. CBS Digital’s Larry Kramer…
CBS Sports Announcement Coming
CBS Digital Media and CBS Sports is making an announcement in about 30 minutes from now…Sean McManus, President, CBS Sports and Larry Kram…
Sportsline Being Integrated Into CBS Sports
CBS Sportsline, now owned by, well, CBS, is being integrated into CBS Sports. Not that big a deal, but all the footage which is not being us…
CBS Takes Bold Approach To Podcasting
It takes a lot to impress me when it comes podcasting these days but CBS Digital just got my attention. The network is launching CBS Netcast…
Yahoo Search Marketing Strikes Multiyear Deal Across Multiple Viacom Sites
In one of its widest-ranging deals yet, Yahoo Search Marketing will provide paid search, contextual advertising and customized search across…
Industry Moves: Bill Martens To CBS Digital Biz Dev From Reuters
Bill Martens has joined CBS Digital Media as director of business development for CBSNews.com; the former journalist was responsible for gl…
Viacom & CBS: The Two Focus on Digital
Viacom, the media conglomerate, will split into, well, Viacom, and CBS Corporation. The first one will include MTV Networks and Paramount, a…
Interview: Larry Kramer, President, CBS Digital
[Staci D. Kramer] Larry Kramer and I had a hard time connecting long enough to do an interview the day the new CBS News digital strategy was…
Interview: Andrew Heyward, President, CBS News
Larry Kramer’s current post as president of CBS Digital started with a consulting job for Andrew Heyward, who was looking for input on a re…
React: CBS News Lays Out Broadband Plans
While I write up interviews with CBS News President Andrew Heyward and CBS Digital President Larry Kramer, here’s a smattering of what’s bei…
CBS News Finds Solution To Lack Of Cable Outlet: Broadband
Updated: As we reported last night, CBS News and CBS Digital announced this morning the reinvention of CBSNews.com as an on-demand 24-hour b…
CBS Digital, CBS News Have Big Plans; Announcement Tomorrow
Updated: read below:
[Staci D. Kramer] CBS Digital President Larry Kramer and CBS News President Andrew Heyward hope to make some news of t…
CBS To Lauch Soaps Talk Show Online
(via LostRemote) CBS will launch a new daytime talk show to hype the network’s soaps. “Daytime Talk Live”, a weekly hour webcast hosted by K…
Industry Moves: CBS Digital Media Appoints Former Yahoo Exec As Senior VP, Strategy
CBS Digital Media, the recently formed unit in Viacom, has appointed Jonathan Sobel as its senior VP, Strategy and Business Development. The…
Larry Kramer, Take Two: MarketWatch Couldn't Have Happened As Part Of CBS
During the years when Viacom’s web vision was covered with cataracts, CBS MarketWatch and CBS Sportsline thrived because they were outside t…
Larry Kramer On CBS Digital: "The web is going to be our cable news network"
Larry Kramer unveiled some of his plans for CBS Digital during a seminar at The Media Center and, if only half of what he’s talking about ha…
Singingfish Signs 10 New Content Partners Including CNN And CBSNews.com
AOL’s Singingfish is adding 10 new content partners for searchable video feeds, including Time Warner sibling CNN, Atom-Films, CBSNews.com,…
