A final announcement regarding Landmark Communications’ sale of the Weather Channel to NBC Universal, Blackstone Group and Bain Capital could come within the next two days, Reuters reports, citing unnamed sources. The final deal between the groups is estimated to…
Officials of the Screen Actors Guild met Wednesday with leaders from the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers at SAG’s request to discuss details of the “final” contract offer from studios and producers issued on Monday, the Hollywood Reporter…
Strike.tv, a Web video site featuring programming created by TV and film writers during the Writers Guild of America strike earlier this year, is expected to launch this summer with original short-form content from scribes behind “The Office” and “Die…
Yahoo is in talks with Time Warner Inc. for a possible merger, the Wall Street Journal says, citing sources close to the situation. Yahoo recently rejected an offer from Microsoft to purchase the Internet company for $47.5 billion, and its…
Sony, which trailed Samsung among worldwide liquid-crystal display television set makers in the first quarter, said last week that it expects to be the market leader in high-definition TVs by 2011. Also by then, Sony expects to return its LCD…
FX has purchased the rights to air “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who” and four other 20th Century Fox films, Daily Variety reports. Other pictures in the deal, valued at $47 million, are “Jumper,” “Meet the Spartans,” “27 Dresses” and…
It took about six months, but DirecTV finally returned Comcast’s salvo. The biggest U.S. satellite television service, which has long touted its superiority in high-definition linear channels over cable companies, this week started offering its on-demand service. The move is…
Reacting to what it perceived as an “attack” piece in the New York Times, anchors Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” morning show shows pictures of one of the paper’s editor and a reporter that distorted their facial features, Web…
The player: Scott Bahneman, co-founder and chief executive officer of MusicGiants. The play: Mr. Bahneman, who co-founded high-definition music distributor MusicGiants in 2004, branched out into HD movie distribution through its VideoGiants service in January by reaching a deal with…
Sharp, Sony Make the Best Blu-ray Players, Magazine Says Sharp and Sony make the best Blu-ray players, PCWorld reports. Sharp’s BD-HP20U had the best detail, color quality and brightness of the players that were tested, while Sony’s PlayStation 3 had…