YouTube’s traffic and streams served shot up again in April over the month before. The world’s biggest video-sharing site delivered 4 billion streams last month to nearly 74 million unique visitors, according to Nielsen Online. That compares to 3.6 billion…
Online video studio ON Networks’ shows will now be available on traditional television sets, under a deal the Web shop inked a deal with Verizon’s FiOS TV service. The deal calls for Verizon to carry ON Networks’ shows on FiOS’…
Former Showtime exeucitive Mark Greenberg was named CEO of the new premium channel and VOD venture being established by Viacom and studios MGM and Lionsgate, TVWeek reports. The new venture is being created with movie rights that Showtime had but…
Mark Greenberg was formally named president and CEO of the new premium channel being created by Viacom, MGM and Lionsgate, the partners in the venture announced Monday. Mr. Greenberg was formerly executive VP for Showtime Networks, responsible for corporate strategy,…
Networks are cutting costs by adapting television series from overseas instead of developing them in the U.S., the New York Times reports. At least six series introduced during last week’s upfronts were adapted from overseas while hit shows such as…
May sweeps ratings fell 10% from a year ago and are down 17% among 18- to 49-year-old viewers, TelevisionWeek reports. Shows such as “The Simpsons” and “Grey’s Anatomy” approached record lows while ratings for NBC’s “American Gladiators,” a winter hit,…
NBC Universal is spreading its Sci Fi Channel to foreign markets, the New York Times reports. Coordinates are set to put local versions of the network in Turkey, South Africa, Romania, Hungary and Portugal. “For an international standpoint, we really…
PBS’s “The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer” is facing its worst budget shortfall after Archer Daniels Midland stopped sponsoring the show last year, the New York Times reports. Salaries have been frozen at “NewsHour,” which has been on the air for…
The season finale of “Desperate Housewives” jumped ahead five years , giving viewers a peek at what some characters’ lives will be like in the future on Wisteria Lane, USA Today reports. Some of the show’s characters will not return…
Microsoft is revisiting a partnership with Yahoo involving advertisements that run next to Internet searches, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the process it didn’t identify. The move by Microsoft appears to be an attempt to stop…