Programmers providing television shows on the Internet for free are “destroying” the media business, Multichannel News reports, citing Soleil Securities analyst Laura Martin. Hulu owners NBC Universal and News Corp. also are trying to get more revenue from the Web…
Almost three-quarters of Americans either wouldn’t pay to have access to television shows online or don’t watch TV on the Web, Multichannel News reports, citing a Diffusion Group survey of 2,000 U.S. customers. About 28% of those polled would be…
Alloy Media+Marketing, whose sister company Alloy Entertainment developed The CW television series “Gossip Girl” and “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” films, is partnering with United Talent Agency to start a short-form video network for its Teen.com Web site. Teen.com…
Alloy Media & Marketing is launching Teen.com TV, a web video site designed for sponsors interested in marketing to teens, the Wall Street Journal reports. LG Mobile has signed on as the first sponsor of a Teen.com TV drama series,…
Cablevision Systems, which bought Newsday last year, says it plans to charge for reading the newspaper online, Reuters says. “Our goal was and is to use our electronic network assets and subscriber relationships to transform the way news is distributed,”…
Hulu is launching its inaugural Hulu Awards, honoring some of the best videos on the Web site. Voting starts today in multiple categories and will last for two weeks. The winners will be announced March 12, which marks Hulu’s one…
Activision Blizzard, the world’s largest videogame publisher, is shopping its $200 million global-media account, which is now fulfilled by Publicis Groupe’s MediaVest unit, Adweek reports. While MediaVest will try to keep the account, Havas’ MPG and Omnicom’s OMD are among…
CBS’s TV.com Web site unveiled an application allowing users of Apple iPhones to video-stream shows such as “CSI” and “NCIS” on their handheld devices, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Competing Web site Joost has a similar application, while Hulu has said…
Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., in a speech at the Free State Foundation in Washington, argued against reviving the Fairness Doctrine, which would require broadcasters to air both sides of a controversial issue, saying it should be “avoided at all costs,”…
Market researcher IDC forecasts that online ad spending will shrink for the first time since 2001 when the dot-com bubble burst, the Wall Street Journal reports. IDC said Internet spending could fall by 5% in the first quarter of 2009,…