Barack Obama’s inauguration speech generated some record setting Web-video streaming traffic for CNN and its partner Facebook, but will the public be quite as interested in the new president’s State of the Union like address to Congress? The world gets…
Bill Cella, the former head of Interpublic’s Magna Global and founder of The Cella Group, has joined the board of TiVo, MediaPost reports. The move comes as the DVR company is seeking to convince ad companies that it wants to…
Peter Chernin, president of Fox parent News Corp., would be owed about $40 million in deferred pay and pension funds as well as other perks if he were to leave the company after his contract runs out in June, Business…
John Rossi, general manager of CW-affiliate KOCB and Fox affiliate KOKH in Oklahoma City, said he was feeling tired today after his station fielded nearly 900 calls over the past two days regarding his stations’ switch to digital TV signals….
Ross Mathews has come onboard as a celebrity interviewer for TheInsider.com. Mr. Mathews got his break on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” where he filmed segments and did celebrity interviews for seven years as “Ross the Intern.” Mr. Mathews…
CNN will create more Internet-only news content, exemplified by its coverage of Barack Obama’s Feb. 24 address to Congress, while working with social-networking site Facebook on creating online communities related to certain events, Broadcasting & Cable reports. CNN newscasters John…
The Federal Communications Commission said calls to its digital-TV transition help lines decreased Wednesday, the day after 417 stations switched away from analog signals. The decline may suggest that more viewers were concerned about the prospect of the DTV transition…
TodayShow.com has received a makeover. The new Web site allows users to customize their TodayShow.com homepage, while extending the broadcast’s brand with headlines and video from the show. Visitors can watch the entire show online and then embed or share…
Comcast will make its so-called “wideband” high-speed Internet service available to more than 30 million homes by the end of the year, Multichannel News reports. The U.S. cable leader provides the service to 10 markets, including Minneapolis-St. Paul, Boston and…
The National Telecommunications & Information Administration’s Web site received the most hits of any site related to the U.S. switchover to all-digital broadcasts, with about half the visits in the past month coming from households with annual income less than…