ABC, Affiliates End News Now Talks
Ownership Issue Kills Proposed Partnership
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Tech Players Push TV-Web Convergence
Role of Networks, Studios Evolving Slowly
Holiday Inn Gets ‘Smart’
In one of the latest examples of branded Web video, Holiday Inn Express has partnered with Blip.tv to release the second season of its Web series “The Smart Show” starting July 8. The Web series is designed to showcase the…
Appointment Viewing Lives Online
Web Video Sites Attract Consumers With Fresh Content, Plenty of Promotion
NBC Universal Buys Weather Channel
NBC Universal, along with private equity firms Bain Capital and the Blackstone Group, have agreed to acquire the Weather Channel from Landmark Communications almost a month after they became the exclusive bidders. The announcement of a definitive agreement Sunday afternoon…
Keating Joins Hearst-Argyle
Former Time Warner executive Roger Keating has been named senior VP of digital media for Hearst-Argyle Television, Broadcasting & Cable reports. He will be responsible for expanding and launching new-media initiatives for the company, the newspaper notes. —Vlada Gelman
Women Flock to ABC.com
Eighty-five percent of ABC.com viewers are female, which makes their presence even bigger online than in ABC’s TV viewership, Silicon Alley Insider reports. ABC’s research also found that viewers are more than twice as likely to remember an ad watched…
NBC Enlists WPP for Olympics Video Player
NBC has signed WPP Digital’s Schematic unit to provide the Web video player for its 2,200-plus hours of live streaming Olympics coverage, Online Media Daily reports. The player, which will be available on NBCOlympics.com and will feature interactive picture-in-picture, also…
Best Buy Poll Finds DTV Confusion
A poll conducted for Best Buy by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Media Omnibus Services revealed that while 88% of Americans have heard of the transition to digital television, many do not know what they must do or why the…
Court Orders YouTube Viewership Records Turned Over to Viacom
Google must turn over the records of videos watched on YouTube to Viacom, according to a ruling from the U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Viacom’s $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit. The ruling Wednesday raises serious issues over…