“South Park” creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have released the unaired pilot of the show on the SouthParkStudios.com Web site, The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed blog reports. "This is the only all-construction-paper episode of the series and the only one hand-animated…
A new report by Park Associates says set-top box shipments will reach 200 million by 2013, according to Multichannel News. One trend the company see are that set-top boxes are incresingly being hooked up to the Internet, allowing Internet programming…
On the heels of better than expected sub growth in quarter 2, Dish Network has filed for a one billion dollar debt offering, Multichannel News reports. The proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, Multichannel says. The offer will…
[Editor’s note: Granite Broadcasting Announced on Aug. 11, 2009 that its Chairman and CEO, Don Cornwell, is stepping down. Don built Granite Broadcasting into the largest TV group in the country controlled by an African American. In this 2000 piece…
EA Sports is teaming up with ESPN and its “Monday Night Football” franchise for a Madden NFL game promotion, the Associated Press reports. Players from last season’s Super Bowl teams, The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals, are featured on the video…
It’s that now overly familiar question: Will people pay to read and see news and opinion online? News Corp owner Rupert Murdoch, whose Wall Street Journal is the poster-child for paid content, now insists that all of the websites of his…
Satellite provider DirecTV will present the feature film, "The Burning Plain," starring Oscar winners Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger, as a VOD offering almost a month before it opens in theaters, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The movie will be available…