CBS is prepping the relaunch of its recently acquired Web property TV.com and is shaping it as a destination that will go “beyond Hulu,” PaidContent reports. While in the past the site has served as a “digital water-cooler,” CBS plans…
New York State, facing a $1.7 billion budget shortfall, may tax digital downloads of entertainment products such as television shows and music, as well as end a sales-tax exemption on cable TV, movie tickets and more, the Hollywood Reporter says….
NBC has taken a more lenient approach to a recent “Saturday Night Live” clip being available on YouTube and not only Hulu, Advertising Age reports. The clip in question, a music video for the Lonely Island’s first single “Jizz in…
Cable providers are extending an olive branch to legislators concerned about confusion during the digital TV transition: They will not move any analog channels they offer to basic or premium digital tiers until March unless they also offer free converter…
Daisy Whitney’s New Media Minute
Online video will be a safe bet for advertising dollars in 2009 in part because television networks are offering professional programming on the Web that marketers like, the new media research firm eMarketer says. In a series of predictions for…
Online video site DailyMotion doubled its audience in the last year, the company reported today. According to data from comScore, the number of unique visitors in the United States to DailyMotion.com rose to 7.3 million in October, up from 3.2…
Internet television technology provider Move Networks has started powering hi-def video online for action sports network Fuel TV, the companies announced today. The arrangement follows Move’s deals in recent weeks with iStreamPlanet and the NFL as well as a partnership…
While television networks hoped online-video advertising would remain strong, some such as NBC are warning that spending on the ads is slowing, the Wall Street Journal says. NBC Universal Jeff Zucker said at an investor conference last week that “the…
ESPN.com is retooling its Web site with less clutter, partly to make it more appealing to advertisers, the New York Times reports. It will also add new advertising tools, such as a video option designed for movie studios. While a…