News Corp. is rebranding and reorganizing its mobile content operation, the Hollywood Reporter says. Fox Mobile Group will consist of three units—Fox Mobile Studios, Fox Mobile Entertainment and Fox Mobile Distribution—focusing on mobile content production, third-party licensing and distribution, respectively….
News Corp. President and Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin discussed the evolving roles of old media and new media during an exclusive interview with TelevisionWeek Publisher and Editorial Director Chuck Ross at TVWeek’s Innovation360 conference, held last week in New…
The Tampa Bay Rays’ victory over the Boston Red Sox in game seven of the American League Championship Series, televised by TBS Sunday night, was the most-watched baseball game of the season and drew the most viewers of any baseball…
Public-interest groups are calling on some TV networks to quit making copyright claims that force YouTube to take down pointed videos from presidential candidates and political activists during the last weeks of the campaign. In letters today to CBS, Fox,…
With the election year bringing in the most traffic ever for news and political Web sites such as MSNBC.com, CNN.com, ABCNews.com and TheHuffingtonPost.com, MediaWeek is examining whether 2009 will show a sharp decline in visitors to those sites. “You will…
Cable network Current has inked a deal with RooftopComedy to carry the Internet comedy site’s sketches on Current and Current.com. Under the deal RooftopComedy will provide Current TV with a weekly program of stand-up comedy from venues around the U.S.,…
Turner Broadcasting got good news and bad news from baseball on Saturday. Technical difficulties kept it from televising game six of the American League Championship Series until the first inning was nearly over. When TBS joined the game, the score…
The Screen Actors Guild’s board voted to bring in a mediator in its contract dispute with television networks and movie studios, the Associated Press reports. Talks have been stagnant since June 30 when the studios presented the union with its…