Cable giant Comcast says it’s the first programming distributor in the TV business to reach the milestone of having 20 billion entertainment choices accessed by customers, Multichannel News reported. The company rolled out its on-demand service in 2003, launching with…
Forget the threat of digital video recorders to advertisers. The real issue may be an increasingly common device that’s effective at pulling viewers away from ads: the smartphone, according to an analysis by Brian Monahan in Advertising Age. New research…
Liberty Media Chairman John Malone, addressing shareholders Monday in Denver, explained the reasoning behind the company’s buyout big for Barnes & Noble, which valued the company at $1 billion, Adweek reported. Malone sees a big future for B&N’s Nook e-reader…
UPDATED May 24, 2001 at 7:30 pm, PT to reflect how much Klum is getting paid. Supermodel Heidi Klum rolled out a new AOL website today, part of the online company’s latest strategic push, Advertising Age reported. According to the…
YouTube is opening the door a little wider for advertisers to buy space to air video on the website, The New York Times reports in its Media Decoder column. The move comes as users are, perhaps reluctantly, learning to accept…
Samsung says 5 million of its TV apps have been downloaded, B&C reports. According to the article, "In a move that highlights the growing consumer embrace of connected TVs, Samsung Electronics Co. has announced that the Samsung Apps store has…
After lying to his wife about having tickets to "The Oprah Winfrey Show’s” final taping, a Canadian man drove to Chicago and allegedly faked his own mugging and now faces jail time for filing a false report, according to the…
There’s a new cable network president in the industry, it was announced today. She’s the popular and well-respected Wonya Lucas. Lucas will be the president and CEO of TV One, succeeding Johnathan Rogers, who is retiring as of July 31. Most recently,…
Online retailer Amazon.com is taking the full plunge into book publishing, launching a publishing house this summer that will be based in New York, Crain’s New York Business reports. The company has been dabbling in publishing with digital imprints such…
ESPN has announced the appointment of a new vice president, Sales Marketing, for ESPN’s Customer Marketing and Sales group. The job is being taken by Cindy Freed, who will oversee the ad sales marketing group, including ESPN’s Co-Marketing team, Creative…