Google has purchased Atherton, Calif.-based startup Omnisio, which allows users to extract clips from videos on YouTube, Google Video and Blip.tv, Tech Crunch reports. Users then can mash the clips together to create their own embeddable compilations, the Web site…
AMCtv.com is streaming the entire original CBS/NBC News special from Feb. 14, 1962, featuring a tour of the White House with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Time magazine reports. A bit of the special was seen during the second-season premiere of…
Rory Cochrane (“CSI: Miami”) has been added to the cast of Fox’s “24,” TV Guide reports, citing unnamed sources. Cochrane will play a crony to Jon Voight’s bad-guy character in the upcoming new season, the magazine says. —Vlada Gelman
Nielsen Mobile and Mediamark Research & Intelligence are launching Mobile-MRI, a research service that will provide behavioral, psychographic, demographic and product usage information on mobile users, MediaWeek reports. MRI recently ended its partnership with M:Metrics, which was acquired by comScore…
MySpace has named Manu Thapar as senior VP of engineering, Angela Courtin as senior VP of marketing, entertainment and content and Tish Whitcraft as senior VP of customer care, Media Daily News reports. Additionally, Jason Oberfest has joined the company…
High gas prices and a weak economy may be just what television programmers need to get viewers to stay home and watch their shows, USA Today reports. Total viewing on the Big 4 TV networks is up for the first…
Reality show guru Mark Burnett has filed a suit against business manger Conrad Riggs, claiming that Riggs, who collected more than $25 million during their relationship, is seeking additional, undeserved payments, the Los Angeles Times reports. Riggs sued the creator…
CBS is developing a new action drama hour-long project with “CSI” vet Josh Berman and non-fiction crime writer Katherine Ramsland, Daily Variety reports. The project, “The CRU,” is based on a character from a James Patterson novel, “Step on a…
Channing Dungey was named to replace Morgan Wandell as senior VP of drama development at ABC Studios, TelevisionWeek reports. Dungey has been involved in developing shows including “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Criminal Minds,” and “Army Wives.” Wandell’s long-rumored move to Greg Berlanti’s…