Michael Jackson’s memorial service didn’t break Web viewing records set during President Obama’s January inauguration, but it did bring in a huge audience. It was CNN.com’s second-largest live video streaming day, with 81 million pageviews and 9.7 million live video…
In a lead-up to the Sept. 18 shuttering of its 72-year-old soap “Guiding Light,” CBS has set up “Guiding Light Finale Central” on CBS.com, the New York Post says. The site features “Road to the Finale” video clips and clips…
“Grey’s Anatomy” became the first ABC show to premiere on the web video service Hulu on Monday, Broadcasting & Cable says. Other ABC programs soon to join the Web lineup include “Desperate Housewives,” “Scrubs” and “Ugly Betty.” Shows from ABC…
The Rev. Al Sharpton, who will be one of the featured guests at tomorrow’s memorial for Michael Jackson, attacked the media yesterday for its coverage of Jackson’s death. “I’m here because of the disgraceful and the despicable way [the media]…
Independence Day is over, but for producer/executive Peter Johnson, the biggest holiday of July is still a few weeks away. Johnson is president of Wonderland Media, a unit of director McG’s Wonderland Sound and Vision, the multimedia production company that…
Outspoken Rep. Pete King, (R-N.Y.) said Sunday in a video posted on YouTube that the media had “disgraced itself” with excessive Michael Jackson coverage in recent days, Newsday says. Standing outside an American Legion Hall on Long Island, King said:…
The online video service Hulu will launch in the U.K. in September, Variety says. The service, which is owned by News Corp., NBC Universal and Providence Equity Partners, is offering local broadcasters equity stakes and revenue sharing. –Elizabeth Jensen
In what Multichannel News is calling an "Internet Acid Test," Comcast and Time Warner Cable are going to allow 5,000 subscribers to see new episodes of TV shows on the Internet. Cable TV executives have talked about a concept they…
TV stations are increasingly "degrading their hi-def picture quality. The culprit is multicasting, i.e., transmitting digital subchannels alongside the primary HD stream within a station’s 19.4 Mbps digital TV pipe," according to B&C. The reason is to increase revenues through the subchannels….