Digital network HealthiNation has inked a deal with Comcast Spotlight that brings HealthiNation’s health information to Comcast’s video-on-demand service. The VOD content is available for free to digital cable customers via the “Searchlight” section of the on-demand menu. The rollout…
Michael Winship, the president of the Writers Guild of America East, is recommending that his membership accept the tentative agreement reached with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers end the WGA strike that began Nov. 5. “I believe…
Hollywood writers and studios have a tentative agreement on the table that could end the strike that has hobbled the broadcast television industry since November. “We have a tentative deal,” Writers Guild of America presidents Michael Winship (East) and Patric…
In the war for high-definition movie viewers, Netflix is trying to bust Blockbuster, Blu-ray is bruising HD DVD and Apple’s iTunes is trying to undo Amazon.com’s Unbox and Vudu. They may all want to duck, though, because the cable companies…
The player: Patrick Cosson, vice president of marketing at Vudu. The play: Mr. Cosson is helping boost the profile of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Vudu, which last year began selling set-top boxes that can instantly download both high-definition and standard-definition movies….
North American high-definition television sales grew about 60% to 10 million units in the fourth quarter as Samsung and Sony gained market share at the expense of Sharp and other manufacturers, NPD Group unit DisplaySearch said. The number of flat-panel…
HD programming picks for Feb. 7-Feb. 13: “Wildlife Man,” “There’s Something About Mary,” “Lawrence of Arabia” “Wildlife Man: Treasure in Paradise” (Discovery HD). Thursday, Feb. 7, 11 p.m. Intrepid host David Ireland films the 2-mile-deep underwater canyons of East Timor….
DirecTV, Fox Sports Will Boost HD Baseball Broadcasts DirecTV will show as many as 40 Major League Baseball games a week in high definition as part of its MLB Extra Innings package, while the Seattle Mariners team will air all…
Online video production and distribution shop TurnHere landed $7.5 million in funding from Venrock Capital and Hearst Interactive Media. The company will use the cash to develop new online video products and services. TurnHere customers include CondéNet, Discovery Networks, Williams-Sonoma,…
Internet television production studio Next New Networks linked up with top social-networking site MySpace in a partnership to deliver some of Next New’s shows on MySpace. Under the deal, MySpace will carry Next New’s shows including “Barely Political,” “Channel Frederator,”…