Comcast revealed at Cable Show 2011 in Chicago that it is expanding its VOD offerings from Starz for subscribers to Starz, Encore and MoviePlex premium packages, raising the count to about 800 standard-def titles and 520 HD titles, Multichannel News…
There’s a hidden cost to the increasingly ubiquitous digital video recorder and other set-top boxes, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Greenspace blog. That’s the $3 billion in energy that the devices are costing consumers annually–with about $2 billion of it…
With more consumers choosing to watch television shows via their iPads and other mobile devices, the advertising market for mobile TV is poised to surge to $1.4 billion in 2015 from $370 million last year, reports Nat Ives in Advertising…
The host of a popular podcast has created a pilot presentation for a television show based on his life, reports New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. Comedian Marc Maron announced plans for the show on his podcast “WTF,” according to the…
Speaking today at Cable Show 2011 in Chicago, Time Warner Chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes proposed a simple solution to current content and distribution issues: Make all content available on all devices, all the time, Multichannel News reported. Bewkes has…
This is a busy week for one cable channel, which announced it is picking up four new series and renewing two others, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The channel is Nat Geo Wild, where one of the new shows will…
Comcast Corp. and Skype have announced a strategic partnership between the two companies to create an HD video calling service that will work through customers’ television sets using a broadband connection. Customers “will soon be able to make and receive…
A recent survey of Netflix streaming video customers revealed a change that providers of cable, satellite and telco TV services are likely to find troubling: The rate of pay-television cord-cutting is accelerating, reports TheWrap.com. Almost one-third of Netflix streaming customers…
Entertainment and media spending were up last year–their first gains since 2007, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog, citing the PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Entertainment and Media Outlook. Spending rose 3.1% in 2010, compared with 2009, according to the report….
Actress Tori Spelling was reportedly involved in a traffic collision Monday morning, and later tweeted that she was being chased by paparazzi at the time, Access Hollywood reported. Spelling, who is pregnant, was apparently taking her two toddlers to school….