Comcast subsidiary thePlatform has made deals with three major cable operators to provide online video services, the Wall Street Journal reports. Comcast has its own streaming video Web site, Fancast, but is looking to expand into the technology service provider…
The CBS-owned Last.fm launched a redesigned look for its Web site last week, Online Media Daily reports. The company also released a Last.fm application for the iPhone and has partnered with Logitech to give users access to the service through…
Verizon Communications’ move to launch FiOS TV service in New York has caused Time Warner Cable to beef up its customer service by decreasing the visitation window from four hours to two hours in Staten Island, the Wall Street Journal….
Companies that provide costumed characters such as Dora the Explorer and Bob the Builder for children’s parties have received cease-and-desist letters and lawsuit threats from the corporations that own the rights to the characters, the Wall Street Journal reports. Costume…
Episodes of The CW’s “Gossip Girl” will once again be available for viewing online through the network’s Web site and other destinations, TVWeek reports. The network hoped to drive viewers to broadcast TV by keeping new episodes of the series…
Roger Ebert has left the motion picture critique series “At the Movies” after being associated with the show for 23 years, Daily Variety reports. His departure comes right after Richard Roeper announced his impasse with Disney-ABC Domestic Television on a…
A new survey issued by CBS Interactive found that 46% of online viewers watch episodes online as their primary form of TV consumption, the Hollywood Reporter says. Most of those viewers also said online viewing does not affect their TV…
TNT has picked up a pilot from Joel Surnow, “24’s” co-creator, and Todd Robinson, the Hollywood Reporter says. The series, “Night and Day,” will follow agents who work for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The project is Surnow’s…
Sci Fi announced that the rest of the final season of “Battlestar Galactica” will air in January 2009, according to IfMagazine.com. The cable channel also will expand its Saturday night movie franchise to include Sunday night, adding 12 more movies…