The Senate approved an amendment to the Deficit Reduction Act that would free up “leftover funds” from the DTV-to-analog converter box program, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The funds will be used to assist senior citizens, minorities and rural viewers in…
Online video viewership dipped 2 percent in May and YouTube took the biggest hit. Consumers viewed 7.45 billion streams of video last month, down from 7.61 billion streams in April, Nielsen Online reported. The world’s biggest video site delivered 3.8…
HGTV will premiere a TV show version of the “Rate My Space” Web site tonight, the New York Times reports. The Web site, which asks strangers to judge user-submitted photos of home renovations, has had more than 150 million page…
LG Electronics may trail Sony and Samsung in overall global high-definition television market share, but the Seoul, Korea-based company is trying to become the HDTV of choice among hotel operators. The world’s third-largest liquid-crystal display TV maker signed two agreements…
For Best Buy’s most recent quarter, sales of flat-panel televisions were a bright spot. For Circuit City, it was the bright spot. The two largest U.S. electronics retailers, which reported fiscal-first-quarter earnings this week, both said flat-screen TV sales increased…
Blu-ray Gets The Violent Treatment in September Blood will be a little redder in the fall as “L.A. Confidential” and both volumes of Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” films will be released on Blu-ray in September. “Confidential,” the 1997 neo-noir thriller…
HD programming picks for June 19-25: “The Sting,” “Standing in the Shadows of Motown,” “Risk Takers: Polar Bear Alert Specialists” “The Sting” (HDNet Movies). Thurs., June 19, 2:30 p.m. ET. Con-man caper starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford won a…
As part of a sweeping Internet distribution strategy, Scripps Networks is now supplying clips from its cable networks’ shows to AOL Video, the companies announced today. The partnership comes just one month after Scripps began distributing clips on YouTube, and…
CBS relaunched the celebrity gossip and news Web site DotSpotter as TheInsider.com, tying it into the network’s celebrity gossip show of the same name, Tech Crunch reports. CBS purchased DotSpotter last October for a reported $10 million, the Web site…
A study by PricewaterhouseCoopers revealed that digital and mobile makes up 5% of revenue for entertainment and media companies, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Digital and media revenues are expected to represent 24% of the companies’ growth in the next five…