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Daily Archives : Apr 25, 2010

Yahoo News, Which Already Reaches 40 Million Month Unique Visitors, To Beef Up By Hiring More Journalists

Yahoo News, already a major user destination, is planning on hiring more journalists, according to Mediaweek. According to the article, " ‘Historically, our content has been from third parties, and a lot of it has been commodity news,’ said Jimmy…

‘Idol’ Contestant Tim Urban Would Welcome Toothpaste Commercial

Tim Urban, who was voted off "American Idol," last week told reporters that he’d welcome being in a toothpast commercial, according to MSNBC. As viewers of the show know, for weeks Urban was known as the contestant who always smiled,…

Cable Operators Looking at Next-Gen Broadband Speeds Up to 5 Gigabits Per Second

Cable operators are looking at next-generation broadband speeds up to 6 gigabits per second, Multichannel News reports. That would be possible if there was an entirely new way of conceiving data-over-coax transmission, the article says, noting that the entity investigating…

Some Primetime Broadcast Viewing Erosion Blamed on Video Games

Some erosion in primetime viewing is due to increased usage of video games, according to Nielsen Games measuring division, says Media Daily News.  Says the article, "Television viewer erosion is the result of a fractionalized viewership — which is due,…

McCartney, John Legend, Green Day Among a Number of Upcoming Concerts on Cable

Concerts by Paul McCartney, John Legend and Green Day are among the events featured on cable in May and June. Specifically, the concert series is on HDNet. HDNet has announced its concert series for May and June: Sunday, May 2 Paul…

Why The Take-Down of the ‘Hitler’ Parodies on YouTube was Illegal

The German film company which produced "Downfall," the movie about the last days of Adolf Hitler now made famous by a zillion Web parodies, has ordered a DMCA (Digital Media Copyright Act) takedown of all such parody videos from YouTube….