President-elect Barack Obama plans to take the Democrats’ traditional weekly radio address to the Web beginning this week, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Obama plans to record the weekly address Fridays on video and audio, which will be posted on the…
Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., plans to propose a bill in January that would prohibit Internet providers from blocking Web content, Reuters reports. Sen. Dorgan believes the law would be essential in preventing telephone and cable companies from discriminating against Internet…
Television networks’ online video destinations are girding for the economic slowdown by focusing on advertising metrics and proven programming, executives at sites including Hulu.com and ABC.com said at the NewTeeVee conference in San Francisco today. Advertiser interest in ABC.com remains…
The nonexistent Martin Eisenstadt—who somehow hoaxed the Los Angeles Times, the New Republic and most recently MSNBC—is actually a character created by filmmakers Eitan Gorlin and Dan Mirvish to help them pitch a TV show based on the character, the…
Online video destination Metacafe set a traffic record in October, drawing more than 9 million unique visitors in the United States, the company said Wednesday, citing comScore numbers. That’s a 30% rise since January and a 10% bump over September,…
Internet Protocol TV provider JumpTV reported a 95% increase in revenue for its third quarter compared with the same period a year ago, Broadcasting & Cable reports. However, JumpTV still reported a net loss for the quarter of $11.9 million…
Records were broken during October and November for the Web site of NBC Universal’s “Access Hollywood.” According to comScore figues, AccessHollywood.com attracted 2.5 million unique visitors during October, the most ever for the site. Omniture data found Nov. 12 had…
Gannett has acquired social media services provider Ripple6, which becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Gannett. Ripple6 currently powers Gannett’s MomsLikeMe.com, social media properties for Procter & Gamble and the soon-to-launch MixingBowl.com—a social network around meals and meal planning from…
Video search and publishing firm Digitalsmiths raised an additional $12 million in venture funding, the company announced today. The Series B round was led by .406 Ventures, with money also coming from current investors Chrysalis Ventures and Aurora Funds. The…
Mobile video technology firm Transpera landed $8.25 million in a Series B round of funding, the company announced today. The round was led by Flybridge Capital Partners and included investment from Labrador Ventures. The cash is earmarked for product expansion…