The player: Eric Feng, chief technology officer at Hulu The play: Feng was the first person hired by Hulu Chief Executive Officer Jason Kilar, and he helped the NBC Universal-News Corp. joint venture go from last year’s inception to last…
HD programming picks for April 24-30: “Spurs vs. Suns,” “Fight Club,” “Blood Simple” San Antonio Spurs vs. Phoenix Suns (ESPN). Friday, April 25, 7:30 p.m. ET. The defending champion Spurs take on Steve Nash and the Suns in Game 3…
Consumer ambivalence may be the biggest challenge facing the high-definition DVD player market, according to a new report from ABI Research. Although Sony’s Blu-ray format has emerged as the victor in HD video technology race, ABI analysts said many people…
Sony Looks to Have PS3 Online Video Service by Summer Sony, whose PlayStation 3 helped the company’s Blu-ray win the next-generation DVD player format war, will launch an online video service for the game console as early as this summer,…
E.W. Scripps posted a 23% jump in profit in the first quarter of 2008, the New York Times reports. The company, which owns cable networks including DIY and HGTV posted net income of $84.1 million, or 51 cents a share,…
A Senate committee took the first step toward overturning the Federal Communications Commission’s latest rewrite of media-ownership rules that let newspapers and broadcasters in the same market buy each other. The Senate Commerce Committee on a voice vote approved a…
Producer Mark Burnett (“Survivor”) will retrace newsman Henry Morton Stanley’s journey to find Dr. David Livingstone in Africa in a new series for History. In “Expedition: Stanley and Livingstone,” five expert explorers will make their way using only a compass,…
Just days after taking the reins as HBO’s new entertainment president, Sue Naegle has put a dark comedy called “Hung” into development, Daily Variety reports. The project revolves around a well-endowed middle-aged high school basketball coach—a down on his luck…
The Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers and the Screen Actors Guild have extended their talks by three days to May 2, Daily Variety reports. The extension is a sign that negotiators are making headway, cooling fears of a…