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New Media Guru to Leave CBS

The man who has overseen CBS’ interactive division since 2006 is leaving the network, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. Quincy Smith, who leads CBS Interactive, will leave to start his own consulting company, the story says, with…

Disney Offers Free iPhone App for Mobile Content

Disney is offering a new iPhone application for free that will centralize Disney mobile offerings and allow users access to bonus content using innovative Click2Life software, reports the Associated Press. The Click2Life tool is a key to opening exclusive Disney…

Hulu CEO Responds to Critics: ‘I’m a Capitalist,’ and ‘We’re Not Giving [Hulu] Away for Free’

Jason Klar, the CEO of Hulu, responded today to other Hollywood executives who have been criticizing the popular website for not having the right business model. Klar, speaking at the closing session of the annual CTAM convention in Denver, said that “I…

MTV Research Guru Leads Exec. Committee for Innovative Measurement Coalition

The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement has picked its executive committee, and it will be headed by MTV Networks’ Executive-VP Insights and Research, Colleen Fahey Rush, B&C reports. The web site of the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement launches this…

Ranks of Online-Only TV Viewers Growing

A growing number of TV viewers are opting to unplug from the traditional cable, satellite or over-the-air delivery in favor of watching TV programming strictly online, reports the Los Angeles Times. Their reasons for the switch include saving money on the monthly TV…

Comcast COO Steve Burke Would Have No Problem Disabling Fast Forward So Ads Could be Watched

Steve Burke, Comcast’s chief operating officer, says he’d have no problem disabling his customers’ ability to fast forward through shows to make them watch commercials. However, he said he’d only be willing to do that on very high-rated programming. Burke…

How the Fort Collins Sheriff Knew the Balloon Boy Story Was a Hoax: the Mother of the Boy Told Him

The reason the sheriff who serves the Fort Collins area of Colorado knew the Balloon Boy story was a hoax was because the mother of the boy told him so, the Fort Collins Coloradoan, reported on Saturday,Oct. 24th. The Coloradoan…

VIDEO: Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes on Why the Company Should Have Never Merged with AOL; and the Lessons That Has For Comcast-NBCU Talks

TIme Warner Chairman and CEO surprised attendees at TVWeek’s recent Innovation360 Conference by saying that even at the time it happened the merger of AOL and Time Warner was a a bad idea. In this video clip from the conference…

From Time Warner’s TV Everywhere to Disney’s Keychest, with DVD Sales Falling, Studios Are Desperate to Figure Out New Video Strategy

This piece in the New York Times talks about the various video strategies the studios are playing with as they find their current methods coming up short. Says the article, "[B]usiness currents have shifted. While DVD and Blu-ray will remain…

Jeff Bewkes, Chairman & CEO, Time Warner, on Why The AOL Merger NEVER Made Sense, and the Lessons We should Learn from the Fiasco (from the TVWeek Innovation360 Conference in NY City, Oct. 13, 2009)