WRAL-TV’s free iPhone application offering news and information has broken into the top 10 in free news application downloads on the Apple iTunes store, TVNewsday reports. The application, developed by News Over Wireless for the Raleigh, N.C., station, is ad-supported…
Joe Barton, R-Texas, a ranking member of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, and other Republicans have introduced a bill that would allocate an additional $250 million in DTV converter coupon funds in order to get consumers off the waiting…
With the senate moving forward to delay the switch to digital over-the-air broadcast TV signals, television station staff are bracing for a last-minute scramble to change plans. Nine out of 10 station managers surveyed by TVWeek oppose a delay. The…
Profit at General Electric’s NBC Universal unit fell 6% to $865 million, as a strong performance at the company’s cable networks was offset by problems at its broadcast stations, the company reported Friday. NBC Universal revenues dropped 3% to $4.4…
Qualcomm has hired Bill Stone as president of FLO TV, replacing Gina Lombardi, who had run the mobile TV unit for three years, Multichannel News reports. Stone was previously the CEO of mobile-content aggregator Handango, the publication says. —Aimee Picchi
Meredith Corp. is combining its Web properties into a single Meredith Women’s Network in order to help increase the company’s online social networking presence and give advertisers a broader reach, MediaPost reports. Among the titles included in the new online…
Tribune started what it calls an “online content marketplace” designed to bring together material from the company’s newspapers and 23 television stations, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The site, called “The Syndicate,” will include interactive features such as trivia, quizzes and…
Internet television is trumping digital video recorders as an on-demand device for the younger generation, according to the latest findings from research firm Solutions Research Group. The study found that 70% of online Americans in the 18- to 34-year-old demographic…
Online video site Veoh.com introduced a new feature today that provides video recommendations to users even when they’re on other sites. The Veoh Video Compass lives on a user’s Web browser and providers relevant online video recommendations suited to the…
The pace of homes getting ready for the digital TV changeover is quickening, but with the Feb. 17 transition date approaching, the potential is growing for a significant loss of TV audience for advertisers. There is still the possibility that…