HD programming picks for Jan. 8-14: “The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards,” “24” and “American Idol” “The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards” (NBC) Sun., Jan. 11, 8 p.m.: The stars come out to play as the Golden Globes air on…
Golf Channel Swings Into HD The Golf Channel’s high-definition channel has launched in nearly 16 million homes, TelevisionWeek reported. The channel will feature coverage of the first three events of the PGA Tour from Hawaii, marking the first time the…
Conservative Web site pjtv.com has hired 2008 presidential election figure Joe the Plumber as a war correspondent and is sending him to Israel, Breitbart.com reports. Samuel J. Wurzelbacher told WNWO-TV in Toledo, Ohio, that he will spend 10 days covering…
An estimated 140 million people in the U.S. will be paying for mobile broadband service in 2013, MediaPost says, citing a new study from Parks Associates. Only some 46 million people had mobile broadband in 2008, the site notes. According…
MySpace will be on a television set near you soon. The social networking site has partnered with Toshiba, Yahoo and Intel to develop an extension of the MySpace experience for TV, the companies announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in…
Consumers Union is asking Congress and the White House to delay the digital TV transition from Feb. 17, citing problems with the government coupon program for DTV converter boxes and other worries. In letters today to President George W. Bush,…
After laying off about one-third of its staff in October, online television network Revision3 is hiring again. It announced today that it appointed TV producer Ryan Vance as its VP of programming and production. Mr. Vance most recently worked as…
Kevin Conroy has been appointed president of the newly renamed Univision Interactive Media. Formerly known as Univision Online, the division will include Univision.com and Spanish-language mobile offerings unit Univision Móvil. Mr. Conroy previously was executive vice president of global products…
Attention mobile video entrepreneurs: One of the top executives at leading venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers is eager to find a mobile video company that offers “truly mobile video,” and he hasn’t seen it yet. “We need…
Web video consumption has increased by one-third over the last year, MediaPost says, citing new comScore numbers. U.S. Internet viewers watched 12.7 billion videos and clips during November 2008, a 34% increase from the year before, the site says. YouTube…