Cox Communications plans to add wireless to its bundle of entertainment and communications services in 2009. The wireless service, which will join Cox’s digital cable, high-speed Internet and telephone offerings, will allow customers to view television shows, access content saved…
Companies including Microsoft are looking for ways to bring the community building tools of social networks like MySpace and Facebook to TV, the Wall Street Journal reports. Social networking has the potential to play a key role in shaping what…
Harvey Levin, who runs celebrity Web site TMZ.com and its syndicated TV offshoot, told a group of lawyers that the pressure on packs of paparzzi could hurts someone someday, according to the New York Times. But he said new laws…
TelevisionWeek profiles the key players behind the scenes of Web video.
It Will Be Business as Usual Even if Actors Go on Strike
I got so used to watching TV via the Internet last week that I got sick of it. Yep, I was up to my eyeballs in television, to the point where I had to cut myself off for a day….
Break, ManiaTV Among Firms Hit
Ron Howard appears as Opie Taylor and Richie Cunningham in a video he made expressing support for presidential candidate Barack Obama, TelevisionWeek says. Howard is joined by his TV co-stars Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler. — Jon Lafayette
Web studio Generate struck an advertising deal with Unilever’s “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!” to sponsor this week’s episode of the political satire Web show “Republicrats.” The show is produced by Generate and runs on MSN. Under the deal,…
Online video network Break Media said it let go of 11 employees and emphasized that the cutbacks are not due to the economic downturn but are part of the ordinary course of business. CEO Keith Richman said he plans to…