Comcast-owned online video technology provider thePlatform inked a deal with an Australian subsidiary of News Corp. to publish and manage video across 50 digital media properties, the companies announced today. Under the deal with News Corp.-owned News Ltd., thePlatform will…
The FCC has hired IBM to handle the call center for the digital-television conversion, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The FCC made the announcement late Friday about the up-to-$12 million call center contract, which is aimed at fielding up to 2…
U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-New York, said next month’s switch to digital television transmission from analog should be delayed because too few people are ready, the New York Post reports. Weiner supports delaying the change until June 15 to give…
The top five most popular online video sites stayed mostly steady in visitors and videos viewed in December compared with the month before, Nielsen Online reported. That suggests viewing habits for sites such as YouTube, Hulu, MySpace, Yahoo and the…
Social networking site MySpace has partnered with production shop Endemol to create a new interactive reality Web series called “Get Married on MySpace,” the companies announced today. The show will award a free wedding to one couple in the United…
Managers Believe Digital Delay Would Protract the Pain
Could our proclivity to text message be a proxy for our budding interest in mobile video? Cyriac Roeding thinks so. The former head of CBS Mobile and now the entrepreneur in residence at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, one of…
Local Stations Aim to Attract Younger Audiences to Their Web Sites
Difficult times spur the greatest innovations, and television stations are proving the point. The recession is choking off revenue for stations, their newscasts face ever more ratings challenges as young viewers drift to the Web, and local newspapers are challenging…
MSNBC’s news Website is adding a feature that makes it easier to search for videos and to paste them on blogs and other sites, the Wall Street Journal reports. The search works like the “find” function on a text document,…