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thePlatform Offers Reduced-Rate Services to Aid Smaller Clients
In an effort to reach new customers during the economic recession, online video technology firm thePlatform is rolling out reduced-cost services for small and midsized media companies starting this week. The lower prices reflect the video content management company’s effort…
Zucker Talks Money, Leno, Digital
NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker says the company has “taken all the steps” needed in order to cut costs during the ailing economic climate, Newsweek reports. In an interview with the magazine, Zucker discusses Jay Leno’s primetime gig at NBC…
Rockefeller Again Urges Stations to Wait Until June for DTV Switch
For the second time this week, the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is urging broadcasters not to go ahead with the digital TV changeover before June 12. In a statement today, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., suggested broadcasters should act…
Fox Business Launches Live Web Show
Fox Business Network is launching a new Web show Monday at noon ET. “FoxBusiness.com Live” will be hosted by Fox Business Network’s Jenna Lee and Connell McShane, who will report on breaking financial news and interview business leaders, politicians and…
1 Million Netflix Users Served on Xbox 360
One million Microsoft Xbox 360 users are using Netflix’s streaming video service, the video rental company said, according to Reuters. Users who have streamed Netflix titles through the Xbox Live community have viewed more than 1.5 billion minutes of movies,…
Broadband Cutting Into DVD Sales
The fast growth of Internet video is cutting into DVD sales and may be starting to detach younger viewers from cable TV, the Wall Street Journal reports. “We are starting to see the beginnings of cord cutting where people, particularly…
Apple Planning New TV Products
Apple is planning to update its Apple TV set-top box with DVR capabilities by year’s end and introduce a networked TV sometime after that, AppleInsider says, citing a report from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. The new system would allow…
Dean Devlin Does Digital
Producer Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment has built a digital film facility in a modest two-story building that allows him to do post-production in house, the Associated Press reports. “We do believe this is the future, Devlin tells the wire service….