Verizon is planning to allow its FiOS TV customers to watch live television shows on Apple’s iPad, an expansion of a service that allows them to view on-demand shows such as rented movies, reports Bloomberg News. The additional service will…
Research in Motion (RIM) the maker of the popular BlackBerry PDA’s, is looking to buy a mobile advertising unit, The Wall Street Journal reports. [Since the WSJ is behind a firewall and may charge you to read this story, a…
The director of Apple’s App Store has a side company which sells fart apps, Wired reports. According to the article, "Phillip Shoemaker, director of applications technology at Apple, who runs the App Store process, sells iPhone apps in the App…
A veteran executive with NBC News has been promoted to senior broadcast producer, NBC News Investigations, reports TVNewser. Robert Dembo has been with NBC News for 14 years, doing a variety of jobs including director of national news coverage, senior producer…
Details are scarce, but Comcast has confirmed that Comcast Media Center Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Gary Traver has left the company, B&C reports. Jenni Moyer, senior director of corporate communications for Comcast, said in a statement, "It…
Gleeks, those uber-fans of Fox’s "Glee," may be thrilled to learn there’s a radio station that’s devoted to songs from the program, according to a report from Sky News Online. But given that the radio station, which is based in…
The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) this week has a story titled "The O’Reilly Factor: How the Fox host used raw corporate power to crush a critic." We do more than just report about this story. In a must-read entry, TVWeek…
HBO isn’t falling under Netflix’s sway, and instead is telling the online-video service that it’s unlikely to make a deal to sell hits such as "True Blood" and "The Sopranos" to the online service,reports Bloomberg News. “There is value in…
Fox TV Studios, which produces such hits as "Burn Notice: and "White Collar"–both on the NBU Universal-owned USA Network–has named a new president. David Madden has been promoted to president, succeeding Emiliano Calemzuk who left two weeks ago to take…
Gordon Ramsay, who recently had $2 million owed in back taxes associated with his New York restaurant, is breathing a little easier these days, reports The Wrap. That’s because a company Ramsay co-owns, One Potato Two Potato (OPTP), was just bought….