TV News is looking to the Internet as it prepares for its coverage of next week’s inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, TVNewsday reports. CBS News will have a full site dedicated to the event, while CNN.com will feature live streams…
Showtime Networks has made the premiere of its new original series “United States of Tara” available on more than 100 platforms. The season premieres of “The L Word” and “Secret Diary of a Call Girl” also will be made available…
The Consumer Electronics Association, which represents major TV and consumer electronics makers, is warning against pushing back the digital TV transition from Feb. 17, suggesting a delay could only “confuse Americans” and would be a “serious and potentially disruptive step.”…
Songs from HBO’s “Flight of the Conchords” will be available for sale the day after an episode airs in the show’s second season, which begins Jan. 18, the Hollywood Reporter says. Viewers can pre-order the show’s unnamed album, which will…
Online video technology provider Brightcove beefed up its executive ranks with two new hires and also added to its board of directors, the company announced today. Former Adobe executive Jeff Whatcott joins as senior VP of marketing, while Mike Quinn,…
CBS is likely to announce a retransmission consent agreement, its second in the last two weeks, with Verizon’s FiOS, which has 8.2 million customers in 14 states, the New York Post reports. Neither CBS nor Verizon is acknowledging whether CBS…
Attendance at the just-completed Consumer Electronics Show could be down by as much as 22% compared with last year. The Consumer Electronics Association released its attendance projection Sunday, predicting the number of attendees will be more than 110,000. If the…
TV Stations Brace for Costs, Hassles
The likelihood that the digital TV switch will be delayed comes as the state of Hawaii plans the biggest test yet of the transition on Jan. 15. While broadcasters in the state say a very small percentage of the population…
The CBS-owned television-centric Web site TV.com is set to announce it will be carrying content from the company’s broadcast network as well as TV partners including PBS, Showtime, Endemol and Sony—in other words, lots of professionally produced content that also…