By launching a area dedicated to full-length movies and TV episodes, Google’s YouTube is taking on Hulu, the Web video site owned by News Corp. and NBC Universal, the Wall Street Journal reports. YouTube is trying to prevent Hulu from…
The oldest of the old-line TV companies, CBS, turned a profit streaming the Masters golf tournament and the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship online, BusinessWeek reports. CBS hopes to convince the NFL to allow it to stream the Super Bowl in…
Time Warner persuaded its bondholders to remove restrictions and allow the company to sell or spin off AOL, Reuters says. Time Warner will pay the bondholders about $61.5 million in order to free itself from the Internet company, which has…
Google’s first quarter revenues declined from their fourth-quarter levels, marking the first time that’s happened since the Internet company went public five years ago, the Wall Street Journal reports. Google CEO Eric Schmidt told analysts advertisers are reducing how much…
Google has teamed up with professional content companies including CBS and MGM, to offer long-form movie and TV content on the Web video giant YouTube. Among the studios and content creators already on board are Crackle, Lionsgate, Starz, the BBC,…
WorldNow is teaming up with RedLasso in a deal that will allow the organization’s media clients the opportunity to syndicate news and weather video content to sites of interest, TVNewsday reports. WorldNow’s clients participating in the program will split ad…
Some 3.6 million or 3.2% of U.S. television households are still completely unready for the digital transition on June 12, according to data collected by Nielsen. The number represents a slight decrease from the 3.8 million U.S. households that were…
Ashton Kutcher says he’ll beat CNN in the race to be the first with 1 million followers on Twitter, CNN reports. “I found it astonishing that one person can actually have as big of a voice online as what an…
NBA.com will launch the Barkley Zone, a video channel featuring TNT analyst Charles Barkley. The channel will feature exclusive videos of Mr. Barkley during the 2009 NBA playoffs. Four other video channels—Highlights, Top Plays, NBA TV and TNT Overtime—will launch…
The latest series to move from the Web to cable TV is “MoCap, LLC,” which is coming to Spike TV with six original episodes starting April 24. “MoCap, LLC” looks at the people who work at a low-rent motion-capture studio…