Three Reed Business Information media publications — Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News and This Week in Consumer Electronics (TWICE) — have been purchased by NewBay Media, reports B&C. The publications join the NewBay lineup that includes TV Technology and Television Broadcast. Steve Palm, CEO…
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch declared today that future success for his and other media companies is mobile DTV, reports B&C. Murdoch, speaking at a Federal Trade Commission workshop on the future of journalism, offered three points for today’s journalism: First, media has…
A viewer vote will decide what will air on the Disney Channel on New Year’s Eve, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Voting begins Friday at DisneyChannel.com. During the holiday program stars will compete in game show challenges inbetween music videos and favorite…
MSNBC.com will increase its Twitter presence from 27,000 followers to 1.4 million when its new deal with BNO News’ popular @BreakingNews commences in early 2010, reports B&C. MSNBC.com will be the prime client for @BreakingNews’ new wire service. BNO will…
Rupert Murdoch’s threat to keep Google from indexing News Corp. Web sites has taken a new twist, with Google rival Microsoft in talks to pay News Corp. to remove them, the Financial Times reports. Microsoft has also approached other publishers…
The Roku digital video player is adding a channel store so users can add access to more content, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Content on the 10 new channels will range from digital photographs from Flickr and Facebook, to…