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Online video site Veoh introduced several new features to its long-form video service Thursday, part of the company’s strategy of offering a variety of business models for creators.The site makeover gives producers the opportunity to charge for their content, including…
Hoping to speed cable competition a divided Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday limited cities’ ability to demand concessions when granting cable franchises and imposed a 90-day shot clock for cities to act on requests.Congressional Democrats, cities and existing cable system…
The NFL Network and Cablevision Systems remained at loggerheads Wednesday over whether subscribers in the New York market will be able to see Rutgers University play in the Texas Bowl on Dec. 28.Cablevision Chief Operating Officer Thomas Rutledge sent a…
(Corrects Announcement Date)The Big Ten Network on Wednesday announced that it had chosen Chicago as its headquarters and that it planned to build office and studio space in the historic Montgomery Ward Building.The network is a partnership of Fox Sports…
Online video site Revver said it has added three new executives to the company. They are Kevin Wells, a software engineer and consultant, as chief operating officer; David Armitage, who has worked with advertising agencies Young & Rubicam and Chiat/Day,…
Viacom has backed out of plans by major media companies to create an online video consortium for television clips that would threaten YouTube. Executives at the media giant said Wednesday that Viacom may license material to such a consortium but…
Arguing that the Federal Communications Commission has done a 180-degree turn against 30 years of its own indecency enforcement tradition and is trampling on “First Amendment values,” Fox Television Stations on Wednesday asked a federal appeals court to toss out…
CBS Interactive named former Yahoo business development executive Michael Marquez VP of strategy and corporate development. He’ll report to Quincy Smith, the newly installed president of the interactive division at CBS that’s responsible for new media strategies and partnerships for…
Joseph Barbera, early animation entrepreneur and studio chief, died Monday in Studio City, Calif. He was 95.“Joe Barbera was a passionate storyteller and a creative genius who, along with his late partner Bill Hanna, helped pioneer the work of animation,”…
Tribune Co. announced Tuesday that it has completed the sale of WLVI-TV in Boston to Sunbeam Television, which also owns Boston’s NBC-affiliated WHDH-TV, for $113.7 million.Earlier in the month, Tribune also completed the sale of WCWN-TV in Albany, N.Y., to…