Starz is shutting down its broadband video movie subscription service by the end of September, the company announced in a post on its site (www.vongo.com) this morning. The cable channel stopped accepting new customers as of Aug. 1 and said…
Cable deal-making legend and Liberty Media CEO John Malone is open to taking AOL’s dial-up Web access business off Time Warner Inc.’s hands in exchange for his 2.8% stake in the media conglomerate, the Wall Street Journal reports. Liberty executives…
Online video ad network BrightRoll said it recently executed a $1 million month-long online video ad buy for pre-roll ads across 30 branded media publishers. BrightRoll said the $1 million pre-roll campaign is the first pre-roll buy of that size….
A survey conducted by the Association of Public Television Stations found that the majority of over-the-air households that said they would buy a set-top converter box have not done so, TVNewsday reports. Only 9.2% of all TV households surveyed said…
More than 4 million unique users visited NBCOlympics.com on Aug. 9, according to Nielsen, MediaWeek reports. Yahoo’s Olympics site also reaped some of the Olympics fever, attracting 3.3 million unique visitors that same day, while AOL Olympics was in third…
Cable channel IFC inked a deal with independent music resource guide Pitchfork Media to be the TV distributor for Pitchfork’s catalogue of Web videos. The videos come from Pitchfork.tv and will include live performances, interviews, documentary segments and music videos….
The Beijing Olympics are on pace to become the most watched Olympics ever, as the first two days of coverage on NBC Universal’s networks have drawn 114 million viewers. So far, the Beijing Olympics are outpacing the Atlanta Olympics, the…
Data collected by Nielsen Mobile revealed that almost 45% of U.S. mobile video users will make up the mobile audience for the Olympic Games, Online Media Daily reports. Gymnastics was the event that the most U.S. mobile users want to…
Having already laid Time Warner low, AOL is threatening to affect the earnings of search leader Google, the Associated Press reports. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Google said it might have to recognize a loss on its 5%…
HBO will make the season premiere of “Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the Dallas Cowboys” available for free on HBO.com, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The episode, which premiered Wednesday, will be up for one week starting Friday, the newspaper says….