Several broadcasters and advertisers have formed a coalition to prepare the advertising community for the transition to digital TV, TVNewsday reports. The group includes the American Association of Advertising Agencies, the Association of National Advertisers, the National Association of Broadcasters…
NBC is expected to announce a plan to stream its Sunday night NFL games online, the Wall Street Journal reports. Viewers on the Web will be able to choose from extra camera angles make available on NBCsports.com and NFL.com. Fox,…
Vevi Nevo, an Israeli investor, is said to be the largest individual shareholder of Time Warner and vacations on Rupert Murdoch’s sailboat, but few of his powerful friends in the media business know much about his background, the New York…
Online-video site Redlasso put the brakes on its service that lets users take archived clips from networks and add them to other sites like blogs after being sued by Fox Television and NBC Universal, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The site…
About three out of four consumers are willing to watch online advertisements in exchange for free video content, Advertising Week says, citing a survey from Ipsos MediaCT’s Motion unit. Only about half of the consumers are willing to sit through…
Thomson Reuters, which merged last year, will start a business news channel for the Internet and cable as soon as January to compete with CNBC and Bloomberg News, U.K.-based Daily Telegraph reports. In May, the company, while cutting 140 jobs,…
Marvel Comics is creating a 25-episode animated video version of a previously unpublished Stephen King story to promote a new book of short stories by the horror writer, the Wall Street Journal reports. Episodes will be releases daily on line…
“Napoleon Dynamite” Jon Heder is set to produce and star in a new online series, “Woke Up Dead,” about a college student who believes he has died, the Hollywood Reporter says. Electric Farm, the same production company behind NBC Universal’s…
Intel is sponsoring a block of CBS shows being shown in high definition on the network’s Web site, Broadcasting & Cable reports. “CSI,” “How I Met Your Mother” and “The Amazing Race” are among the shows in the sponsorship agreement,…
TMZ Managing Editor Harvey Levin says he won’t use stolen documents or handed-in medical records for his show’s stories on celebrities, Web site PaidContent reports. Levin, speaking Wednesday at the EconCeleb conference, says his hardest decision was publishing Alec Baldwin’s…