Fox News is starting a “Special Report With Bret Baier” Webcast on Wednesdays, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The 15-minute weekly show will include an interactive portion, allowing the host to live chat with online viewers and ask his guests their…
NBC Universal is redesigning the Web site for WTVJ-TV in Miami, renaming the site NBCMiami.com and reducing clutter on the page, MediaPost reports. The redesign comes after the company’s agreement to sell the station to the Washington Post Co. for…
In its second major round of layoffs in two years, Time Warner’s troubled AOL unit is laying off 10% of its workforce, the Washington Post reports. “The deepening recession has affected every corner of the economy, including our own,” AOL…
Facebook’s fantasy game “Celebrity Agent” will be coming to TheInsider.com in April. The game allows users to step into the role of a celebrity agent by competing against friends and other players to manage and recruit celebrities. The game was…
The cable industry will have “dramatically” faster Internet service by 2013, according to a report from Pike & Fischer, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The study may influence the way the government doles out billions in broadband stimulus money, the trade…
The Federal Communications Commission will focus on the broadband buildout at its April 8 meeting, featuring a request for information and input to help write a broadband strategy, Multichannel News reports. The plan is geared to providing Internet capacity to…
Walt Disney Co. is introducing D23, a new Web portal that offers access to an assortment of news, online entertainment and other features to subscribers for an annual fee of about $75, the Wall Street Journal reports. The site is…
Google says it will start selling ads targeted to users interests bases on data it collects about what Web sites they visit, the Wall Street Journal reports. Yahoo and AOL already sell ads based on Web-surfing information, the paper says….
Visiting social networking and blogging sites has become the fourth most popular activity on the Internet, according to new figures from Nielsen Online. Nearly 67% of Internet users in the U.S., United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Brazil and…
The National Association of Broadcasters will host what it calls a Content Commerce Pavilion at this year’s NAB Show, scheduled for next month in Las Vegas, TVNewsday reports. The Pavilion will feature participants Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Electronic Arts, Brightcove and the…