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NBC Sports Will Give Comcast a Needed Broadcast Edge

By Jon Lafayette The sports world will be lining up against a new giant when Comcast’s $30 billion acquisition of NBC Universal finally pushes into the end zone. Like Walt Disney Co., which owns 80 percent of ESPN, a leader…

Business: Stations Plunge Into Mobile

By Debra Kaufman At NAB 2010, new president Gordon Smith declared that broadcasters wouldn’t readily give up spectrum that the FCC — and telephone carriers — wants for mobile broadband. But behind the scenes, broadcasters intending to exercise that spectrum…

Tiki Barber Still Has ‘Today’ Gig After Leaving Wife for Ex-NBC Intern

Tiki Barber remains a contributor to the "Today" show despite leaving his pregnant wife for a former NBC intern, the New York Daily News reports. A NBC News spokeswoman gave a "lukewarm" confirmation that Barber remains a "Today" contributor in…

Verizon’s FiOS, in a First, to Offer YouTube and Internet Radio Over TV

Verizon is claiming a first for television after signing new deals that it says will allow its FiOS service to offer both YouTube and Internet radio on the small screen, The Hollywood Reporter reports. The newest FiOS capabilities come after…

NBC Partners with YouTube for ‘America’s Got Talent’ Auditions

NBC has partnered with YouTube for "America’s Got Talent" auditions, according to James Hibberd at The Hollwood Reporter. Hibberd says in his article that starting today, Monday, April 26, "[A]cts can upload their videos onto a special page on the video-sharing…

Hitler Parodies That Were Knocked Off of YouTube Shouldn’t Have Been

TVWeek Open Mic Blogger Aaron Barnhart urges those folks whose parody filmclips of the Adolf Hitler film "Downfall" were pulled off YouTube to get busy with a "counter-takedown." Barnhart makes a good case. Click here to read it.

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…

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,…

It’s Official: New $10.8 Billion Deal for March Madness–Expands to 68 Teams, Games Will Be On CBS and Turner, Deal Is for 14 Years

The NCAA has announced a new deal for March Madness, the annual Division 1 Men’s Basketball Championship. The deal is worth more than $10.8 billion, and runs from 2011 through 2014. Besides incombent CBS Sports, add Turner to the mix….