Hulu will premiere TV shows and movies daily for eight straight weeks that it’s calling the “Hulu Days of Summer,” Entertainment Weekly reports. Among the TV programs and films making their debut on the Web site during the first week…
Campaign surrogates for John McCain said the Republican presidential candidate would not support network neutrality legislation, pushing for regulation that would separate broadcast, cable and possibly the Internet instead, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Meanwhile, Barack Obama’s representatives said the Democratic…
GoTV Networks and talent agency CESD will partner to combine the efforts of the company’s production studio, GoTV Productions, and its multiplatform distribution network with CESD’s roster of A-list clients. The two companies will create short-form serialized brand-support content for…
Disney will stream movies on its Web site from the “Wonderful World of Disney” series on ABC following their Saturday broadcast, Reuters reports. The movies will be available Monday through Friday on Disney.com, with “Peter Pan” scheduled to end the…
The Webby Film and Video Award winners continued their tradition of accepting their prize with a speech of five words or less, Reuters reports. “Five words is not enough,” Lorne Michaels, recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award for the SNL…
Walt Disney unit ABC is likely to alter the online version of its Charles Gibson-anchored World News” broadcast because of lagging page views, the Wall Street Journal reports. The “World News” Web page last Monday attracted less than 2% of…
U.S. daily video viewing, which includes television, video games and clips on personal computers, will jump about a third to eight hours by 2013, TelevisionWeek reports, citing a study by Solutions Research Group. Video viewing on computers, mobile and other…
HBO bought a small stake in Will Ferrell’s Internet-video venture Funnyordie.com, Daily Variety reports. The venture, which also includes Judd Apatow, will produce 10 half-hour segments of programming for the premium cable channel, the newspaper says. —Danny King
Last week I found myself in the northeast corner of Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan on a gorgeous, sunny day at noon. I was surrounded, or so I thought, by budding entrepreneurs, eager bootstrappers ready to get their next big…
The Internet has always had one big advantage over television: It’s more measurable. This week’s “New Media Minute” takes a close look at how one Web show, MojoHD’s “The Circuit,” is harnessing Web data to fine-tune its editorial and distribution…