The House Energy & Commerce Committee is working on legislation to push back the conversion date for digital television and to free up money for the DTV-to-analog converter box coupon program, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The bill to create more…
Online television network Revision3 has linked up with video search service EveryZing to provide better search and discovery products for Revision3 programming on the Web, the companies announced today. The deal calls for Revision3 to use search tools from EveryZing…
Fourteen House Republicans are urging President-elect Barack Obama to reverse course on delaying the digital TV changeover, warning that a delay would be “a monumental error in judgment.” “No one said that this was going to be easy, but we…
President-elect Barack Obama believes that the speed of internet broadband service needs to be increased nationally, but a broadband stimulus package that will be part of his economic recovery package is more narrowly tailored, a member of the Obama transition…
Online television network Next New Networks generated 300 million views of its programs in 2008, triple the number from the year before, the company announced today. The Web studio’s signature property is the popular Web channel “Barely Political” starring ObamaGirl,…
Google continues to dominate the online search market, racking up a 21.7% increase in its number of searches in November, according to Nielsen Online. The total number of searches increased by 9.6%. The following chart shows the top search firms…
Blockbuster will announce a partnership with Sonic Solutions to build video-on-demand options into consumer electronic devices such as DVRs, Blu-ray Disc players and mobile phones, the Hollywood Reporter says. The move has Blockbuster playing catch-up to Netflix, which has made…
Digital studio Generate launched the third season of its popular Web series “Pink: The Series” today, the company announced. This season’s 15 hi-def episodes will be distributed on Blip.tv, Break, Crackle, DailyMotion, Hulu, iTunes, Joost, Metacafe, MSN, MySpace, Veoh, TheWB.com,…
The founders of Sling Media told their staff yesterday that they are leaving the company, which was bought by EchoStar for $380 million in cash in 2007, the Hollywood Reporter says. Also leaving are top Sling Media executives, including Jason…
“Rockville,” an online show from “Chuck” creator Josh Schwartz, will place videos of the bands featured on its episodes online, the Hollywood Reporter says. The four-minute “Rockville” online episodes will show only about 15 seconds of each group’s performance. The…