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CBS is expanding the full episodes that are available for viewing through its smartphone and tablet apps: The network will make all new episodes of fall primetime shows available on the app eight days after they air on TV.
A major TV channel has gone black for millions of Americans. As the blackout goes into its fourth week, the FCC will have to realize that band-aid solutions won’t work: instead, it should step up and do its job.
Think the FCC can’t do anything to make Time Warner Cable and CBS figure out their differences in the retransmission war the…
Millions of TV watchers have been cut off from CBS because a broadcaster is fighting a cable company over $1. The two sides are trying new tricks to get the upper hand — but what viewers really need is a fresh model for buying TV content.
What’s Trending originally set out to be a weekly highlight of Internet memes and pop culture for CBS News, but a single tweeted shattered those dreams. Now, it’s trying to reinvent itself as a kind of trend barometer for YouTube videos.
Hyperlocal content network Examiner.com is partnering with CBS (NYSE: CBS) Local Digital Media to provide exclusive content for CBS’s locall…
Digital revenues more than doubled last year’s Q2 digital sales for CBS’ publishing unit Simon & Schuster (NYSE: CBS) and accounted for 15 p…
RealNetworks has made a strategic investment in ClipSync, which makes it easy to create social viewing rooms online. RealNetworks uses ClipSync for its SuperPass subscription service, which allows Big Brother viewers to get a behind-the-scenes look at what really happens on the reality TV show.
Turner Sports is taking over March Madness on Demand, but have no fear, college basketball fans — the broadband service will still be free. Live games will be on the iPad for the first time and mobile apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch will be free.
Fast-growing sports site Bleacher Report has raised $10.5 million in a round of funding led by new investor Crosslink Capital. The company s…
Today on the Net: online video is reportedly at the center of the Disney-Time Warner Cable dispute, the BBC will enable U.K. residents stream iPlayer video even when they’re traveling abroad and CBS Sports will stream the U.S. Open from the third round through the finals.
Online video aggregator and search firm MeFeedia now has access to content from all four major broadcast networks, after striking a deal with CBS to add videos from CBS.com, CBS News, CBS Sports, The CW, Showtime, TV.com, The Insider and Chow.
CBS (NYSE: CBS) has made a small acquisition, buying EcoMedia, an environmental media firm. The two companies had already been working toget…
Several times during the CBS (NYSE: CBS) earnings call last week, CBS president and CEO Les Moonves made clear his intention to generate sub…
CBS (s CBS) may have the most aggressive plans to enable viewers to watch web video on the iPad, but so far,…
Are you a golf fan who’s sick of Tiger Woods giving press conferences and just wants to watch some golf already? Well,…
CBS Sports’ (s CBS) online coverage of the 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is shattering records for 2010 — and the fun…
Football fans, take notice: Tomorrow, it’s West Point vs. Annapolis, and when the service academy rivals meet up for the 110th time,…
CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) has promoted Rob Gelick to the position of SVP and GM of CBS Mobile, which fills a gap after Cyriac Roeding, and…
That was then, this is now. After the “forced” sales of $233 million in Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and CBS shares sent the stocks into a spiral last…
I spent some time today with two very different iPhone apps with video at the core. Each wowed the teen server at our local diner, who was i…
CBSSports.com launches the second season of its Fantasy Football Today live web series this week with an expanded show that it says…
Updated: We reported last month that CBS was likely to take part in the Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) On Demand Online trial and now it’s official.…
Hulu has kept a tight lid on its ad sales data over the past year, but a new report from Screen Digest suggests that the premium online vide…
Simon & Schuster, the book publishing company owned by CBS (NYSE: CBS) Corporation, may have to pay as much as $90 million in fines over a S…
After pruning CBS’s online news efforts two years ago, the company is now trying to build it back up as CNET’s tech and edit/management inte…
CBSSports.com has become one of the top sports sites around by developing a broad community of users, establishing important partnerships, a…
The iPhone has been a boon for mobile games developers, but it looks like it
Digital music companies play a major role in the evolution of the mobile social market, and we’ve lined up executives from two key industry…
With the news this week that CBS (s CBS) would be banishing its new series Harper’s Island to Saturday night after sliding…
CBS (NYSE: CBS) Mobile has launched a free Harper’s Island application on the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) App Store to promote its new show — Harper…
— BNET Goes Mobile: CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) has launched some mobile offerings for its business-focused website, BNET. It signed Quattr…
As we and others have reported, cable operators are exploring the idea of negotiating streaming rights into their carriage agreements with c…
Chairman Sumner Redstone and CEO Phillippe Dauman talked about the challenges Viacom (NYSE: VIA) faces, saying the first quarter this year w…
— $399 Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre: The rumor about a $399 price point for Palm Pre has been…let’s say “supported” rather than confirmed. Appar…
Following CBS’ expansion of its TV.com site, the network says it has struck a deal with Verizon (NYSE: VZ) that will add its programming to…
— *CBS*: Aaron Radin has stepped down from his post as SVP-ad sales and business development for *CBS* Television Stations Digital Media Gr…
*Yahoo* has turned to *CBS* to help keep its LAUNCHcast streaming radio service alive. As part of the new partnership, CBS Radio will provid…
Jericho, the ratings-challenged CBS show that got two lives courtesy of fan outcry on the web, popped up on YouTube over the last couple weeks
The controversy surrounding next Tuesday
The TV networks will be pulling out all the stops next week, as what seems like the longest election season in years comes to a close. Along…
It looks to be a brutal Q3 reporting season: Both Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and CBS (NYSE: CBS) Corp have cut their respective outlooks, warning in…
YouTube, hoping to counter the competition from sites like the NBC/*News Corp*. JV Hulu, has started running full-length episodes of CBS (NY…
A bit hard to stay focused and keep writing about media, considering the scope of other things happening around. Anyway, in our own industry…
— Free mobile TV services cutting into broadcast-like services: Mobile broadcast TV services are set to reach $2.7 billion in annual revenu…
CBS
— *CBS*: CBS (NYSE: CBS) Television Distribution has named Scott Koondel president of distribution. Leading sales of off-network programmin…
— CBS* teams with *AT&T* for exposure at Starbucks with Wi-Fi: CBS (NYSE: CBS) says it
CBS (NYSE: CBS) Mobile
There’s lots of talk today about the CBS’ EyeMobile application for the iPhone. Cool idea, but reports neglect to say it requires an jailbroken device.
We may be looking at the dawn of an incredibly politically incorrect new meme, courtesy of Oprah Winfrey’s crusade against pedophiles. A…
*CBS* Mobile has taken its EyeMobile citizen journalism efforts from the Web to mobile by releasing an application for the iPhone, we have l…
With a Swiss and a Scot in play, just imagine how many people might have watched Monday’s rain-delayed US Open Mens Final through CBSSPorts.…
The CW network is taking most of its programming mobile this season on a new WAP site that
CBS Sports Upping NFL Web Vids; new programming will include Fantasty Football Today (which will have a 90 minute premier episode!), and…
News organizations continue to feel their way with social networks, trying to find the right formula for relevance. As Fox News preps an up…
— *AT&T* partners with Rock The Vote, FunMobility to reach young voters: Another election that
As football season approaches, CBS Sports Mobile is trying to grab more of that low-hanging fruit
— Joss Whedon’s ‘Sing-Along’ resurfaces on Hulu: Now you see it, now you don’t, now you see it again. Sci-fi director and writer Joss Whedo…
Faced with a weak ad market, CBS (NYSE: CBS) reported Q2 revenue up just 1 percent to $3.93 billion, just behind analyst estimates of $3.41…
This is quite a push for Stephen King
Back in April, The CW network said it would no longer stream new episodes of its most successful show, Gossip Girl, on its site. The TV netw…
— Babelgum: Babelgum has just opened its first U.S. offices and hired Ethan Podell as president, Babelgum U.S. and Michael Rosen as EVP and…
Here’s a bracing tonic to cure that post-holiday hangover: Lehman analyst Anthony DiClemente kicked off the fresh week with a big, across-th…
The deep slide of Viacom (NYSE: VIA) stock says a lot about how fast Wall St. can turn on a company. Last week, we wrote about Rich Greenfie…
In 2007, Viacom (NYSE: VIA) was just about the only big media firm not to see a decline in its shares. Since then the stock has joined its p…
CBS (NYSE: CBS) has unveiled a “sneak peak” of its challenge to celebrity blogs like TMZ.com and PerezHilton: TheInsider.com. The site, whic…
CBS will put its videos on Yahoo, expanding the reach of network’s content online. Yahoo will become the latest addition to the…
Did you know that both Tom Hanks and Crispin Glover made appearances on the sitcom Family Ties? Enjoy those before-they-were-stars moments courtesy…
Despite cries from its online fan base, CBS has canceled the vampire drama Moonlight. And though Internet fans are protesting, the network…
After a brief introduction from Les Moonves, CBS Corp.’s (NYSE: CBS) president and CEO, CBS Radio executives took the stage attempting to co…
CBS (NYSE: CBS) reported Q1 revenue of $3.65 billion, basically flat from the year-ago quarter, though this partly had to do with having had…
This is beginning to sound like a plot for a premium channel series about rivalry in the entertainment biz … Showtime vet Mark Greenberg c…
Instant traction is getting harder and harder on the Internet these days. There’s just too much stuff! But here’s what the folks…
CBS (NYSE: CBS) News has quietly launched a citizen journalism site, where users can upload photos and videos directly from their mobile pho…
CBS (NYSE: CBS), reeling from disappointing earnings in the last quarter, has done some layoffs, at the corporate level, and separate from t…
Mywaves, the Sunnyvale, Calif. company building an ad-supported streaming mobile video service, plans to announce tomorrow that it
CBS (NYSE: CBS) Mobile is teaming up with content recommendation provider Aggregate Knowledge on a range of targeting and ad services. Under…
Well, at least they had a dream, and it came true for a season: CBS (NYSE: CBS) has canceled the post-apocalyptic drama
CBS Radio and AOL Radio will combine their online radio networks into one, the companies tell us. The deal calls for CBS Radio’s sales team…
A few more details on the upcoming Weather Channel action… NYT reports that there are six media firms interested in buying the network: Ti…
CBS (NYSE: CBS) has announced Q4 revenue of $3.76 billion, down 3 percent year-over-year from $3.88 billion. Net income fell 18 percent to $…
Analysts expect CBS (NYSE: CBS) to release what is likely to be the first of a string of poor quarterly earnings reports on Tuesday, as the…
We have learned that CBS (NYSE: CBS) has laid off about 40-plus employees in connection with the integration of College Sports Television (C…
CBS (NYSE: CBS) announced today that it has partnered up with social mapping and networking service Loopt to roll out what they are calling…
Mobile advertising is about a $2 billion business, but a number of obstacles remain: carriers’ issues, fragmentation, and ultimately, convin…
The very first thing CBS (NYSE: CBS) CEO Leslie Moonves told the investors at Citi
When it comes to technology, Sumner Redstone says he’s not an early adopter, but rather a “non-adopter”, joking about the fact that he doesn…
CBS (NYSE: CBS) Corp reported its Q3 earnings today, and had profits of $343.3 million compared with $316.9 million in the year-ago quarter.…
Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) mobile content strategists “think 900 numbers are going to be really big,” joked Bernard Gershon, SVP of ABC News Digit…
A new CBS (NYSE: CBS) SEC filing describes the compensation package announced this week for CEO Leslie Moonves, whose tenure was extended to…
Updated below: A number of major media and tech companies are banding together to issues “guidelines” for combating the use of unauthorized…
CBS (NYSE: CBS) has bought 10-month-old celebrity gossip blog Dotspotter, for a price of around $10 million. The rumor was first reported on…
Could CBS (NYSE: CBS) follow NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) in ending its digital download contract with iTunes? The company is happy to use it bu…
[by PCUK editor Robert Andrews, in Cannes] CBS (NYSE: CBS) president Leslie Moonves will visit Last.fm in London this week – and is likely t…
Several major HD radio broadcasters have agreed to allow iTunes tagging, which lets listeners mark a preview of a song they hear on an HD re…
Unlike network TV rivals NBC Universal and News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), CBS (NYSE: CBS) is content with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and fairly indifferent…
— Google: Adam Bosworth, VP of product management, has left his post as head of the Google Health (NSDQ: GOOG) project, SearchEngineLand re…
The National Association of Broadcasters is stepping up its fight against the use of “white space” spectrum for internet delivery, as advoca…
— CNN Taps Google For Text Ads, Replacing Yahoo: After three years, CNN.com (NYSE: TWX) has dropped Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) as its text ad provi…
V Cast Video subscribers will have access to the full versions of the Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Fergu…
Big Brother 8 will be broadcast on a dedicated channel on the Verizon VCast Mobile TV service continuosly for the last four weeks of the sho…
CBS Television Distribution, part of CBS Corp (NYSE: CBS) has taken a 50 percent ownership stake in BigShot, the online talent search show f…
At times, it’s looked as though the NBCU (NYSE: GE)-News Corp.-(NYSE: NWS) joint venture might launch with CBS on board but chances are gett…
CBS Corp (NYSE:CBS) has filed its 10-Q for Q2 today, and some numbers worth noting: It bought high school sports/football site MaxPreps earl…
Not that big a deal, but a step forward (others like MSNBC and MobileTV are already doing ad-supported mobile content, some in text, some vi…
CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) posted Q2 net earnings of $404 million, or $.55 per diluted share, down 21.2 percent from last year’s $489.8 million,…
That’s the name CBS has given to its digital strategy: no exclusive, tying up and syndicating with everyone who shows up (well, within certa…
On the eve of negotiations between Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the Writers Guild of America, some high-level ent…
An interesting interview in The Times with German angel investor Stefan Glaenzer, who co-founded auction sites QXL and Ricardo.de and was be…
This Guardian op-ed wonders how UK radio operators let CBS get away with London’s own Last.fm: “On the day the deal was announced, Fru Hazli…
Eighteen months in, the debate continues over the value of splitting Viacom into the new Viacom, home of MTV Networks, and CBS. The latest r…
CBS is continuing on its flurry of deal, even on the strategic investment side: it has invested an undisclosed amount in online-ticket marke…
— Last.fm deal: Music is the biggest part of it…and then other assets we own that we can add to it. The site will always be an ad-based m…
Richard Wheeler, head of music partnerships for Orange, explained at MusicAlly’s digital music convention how the operators choose which son…
The much-hyped online video service Joost, which launched in open-beta last week, has raised a big round of funding: $45 million. The round…
CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) posted a slight decline in 1Q net earnings with $213.5 million, or $.28 per diluted share, compared with $226.9 milli…
— BBC Green-Lights On-Demand Service: The BBC’s iPlayer on-demand TV service has been given the go-ahead by its governing body. The service…
Following last week’s announcement that CBS was investing in TargetSpot, the NYT provides some details on how CBS Radio hopes to use the st…
TargetSpot, a streaming media ad platform provider, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Union Square Ventures, CBS Radio and…
Yet another FCC-centric issue fraught with he said-he said claims of right and wrong … this time it’s the fight over the unused spectrum b…
After a slow start, the big radio network Westwood One (managed by CBS Radio) is expanding its digital portfolio. Gary Krantz, who was hired…
It is a good thing that executives at TV networks are not satisified with the way mobile TV is, because it illustrates a desire to see it im…
The CBS Mobile Network programming slate is out — plans include live sports programming, 12 “entertainment” series from multiple dayparts a…
CBS Interactive and Sprint are teaming up to offer live mobilecasts and mobisodes on Sprint TVSM. The programming will be ad-supported. Unde…
So many messages, so little time … everyone has spin to share now that the NBCU-News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). has been unveiled — why they’re in…
CBS has bought out high school sports/football site MaxPreps, and the business will become part of CBS-owned CSTV (College Sports Television…
Sumner Redstone has it both ways with Google-YouTube … two days after Viacom sued the company and its subsidiary, CBS announced another de…
The NCAA Mens Division 1A Basketball Tournament selection show is underway on CBS, which means March Madness is officially here. CBS Sportsl…
I was standing with an actor — you’d recognize the name if I could tell you — when, noting what I do for a living, he held up a cell phone…
Last week CBS announced appointing Patrick Keane as EVP & CMO of CBS Interactive…prior t this he was heading ad sales strategy at Google.…
As luck would have it, I happen to be in one of the markets where Verizon V Cast Mobile TV is live. I actually contacted Verizon PR earlier…
Some highlights from the CBS 4Q06 earnings call with Chairman Sumner Redstone and CEO Leslie Moonves: (transcript by SeekingAlpha):
MMOD: M…
This one comes from dreary London day at Heathrow airport, en route to Delhi: CBS Corp. swung to a profit in Q4 from a year ago period…it…
As part of a strategic partnership with The Electric Sheep Company, CBS took part in the machinima company’s new $7-plus million round of fu…
The wide-ranging and widely-expected Google-CBS deal, supposed to have been announced at CES last month, is dead for now, reports WSJ in a l…
Things aren’t looking good for the radio business, at least according to Arbitron. Although 90 percent of Americans still listen to terrestr…
The Super Bowl is history and February is well underway so time to think ahead to March Madness. CBS SportsLine, which enjoyed success with…
CBS Interactive’s Quincy Smith is putting some emphasis on mobile by creating CBS Mobile, a new division that will handle mobile across the…
While content companies have an “envelope of responsibility” to the public in terms of what they air or produce, parents must be more vigila…
To watch 2008 commercials, go here.
If you are not sick of the already saturated coverage about the ads, watch the ads themselves online. I…
CBS has struck a deal with its technical staff, through the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), to extend their contract…
CBS has struck a deal with its technical staff, through the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), to extend their contract…
Some industry moves of note today:
— BET, part of Viacom, and now full owner of its digital operations, has named Scott Mills as president…
A leading ad exec expects Google and CBS to test an online media buying auction, AdAge reports. Last May, eBay began experimenting with a nu…
Cyriac Roeding, VP of wireless for CBS Corporation, gave a very good keynote about what he thinks will happen to the content industry over t…
The Trendsetting Digital Media Initiatives panel had some good views on the industry… it was moderated by Raja Khanna, Founder & COO of Qu…
People were expecting the substantial Google-CBS announcement at CES, but that didn’t come beyond the much-smaller YouTube 15-second video d…
Despite its long heritage in old media (or maybe because of it), CBS is embracing new media in a big way. Staci has a rundown of the raft of…
While the crowd at MacWorld was waiting for the gospel by Steve, I was backstage during the Michael Dell keynote chatting with another man w…
While CBS CEO Leslie Moonves was sharing the CES stage with what he called in deadpan fashion “the Angelina Jolies and Brad Pitts of the int…
I’m at the CBS keynote behind a batch of CBS execs, sandwiched between Sling Media’s Jason Krikorian and Jason Hirschhorn. CEO Leslie Moonve…
Bloomberg has an interesting piece on the upcoming CES conference, arguing that content companies are stepping up their presence at the elec…
It might sound contradictory, but CBS Research has found that individuals who are heavily involved in using digital media are also more like…
Updated: Showtime Networks, owned by CBS Corp, is following Turner’s lead in launching Gametap in 2005, and is launching a broadband gaming…
CBS’s interactive/digital arm has made a senior appointment, and more proof that it is very serious on doing lots of Silicon Valley acquisit…
We heard this rumor about 10 days ago, and today NYT makes a brief mention of it in the story about YouTube-rival site being negotiated by m…
From Variety, word that CBS is adding a digital music label called CBS Records. (Technically, no records appear to be involved.) The idea: u…
Just as many high-profile business journalists are moving to Conde Nast’s upcoming Porfolio (or, in at least one case we know of, being paid…
Must be the slow Thanksgiving week: CBS issued a release today with some of its YouTube clips viewing numbers, which while heartening in som…
Through its deal with Movielink, internet VOD service Akimbo can now offer movies on demand from Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Paramount Pict…
CBS has formed the CBS Television Distribution Group to handle its a worldwide production, distribution and media sales, combining the resou…
The traditional dominance of broadcasters has collapsed as audiences migrate to mobiles, websites and gaming, said Roger Parry – one possibl…
About 10 months after launching its primetime shows on VOD service from Comcast, CBS has dropped the 99 cent per episode fee, reports AdAge.…
CBS wants to buy the next YouTube, said CE Leslie Moonves at an RTS event in London last night. But he ruled out YouTube itself despite “bei…
“We need to be careful not to think this is another TV screen. This is not a TV, it is a medium in its own right.” — Cyriac Roeding, VP Wir…
Increasingly under pressure to defend “new” Viacom’s sluggish stock performance since the split with CBS, Tom Freston has resigned — or was…
Updated below: CSTV, the U.S. college sports network now owned by CBS, has gone ballistic: others media companies are launching 2, 3 or 5 br…
On the Q1 conference call today, CBS CEO Les Moonves mentioned that on the mobile content side, the Verizon V Cast deal– which lets VCast s…
[by Rafat Ali] Last week, I spoke to Cyriac Roeding, the VP heading CBS’s mobile content efforts. It seems as if CBS has suddenly come out o…
