Video search and publishing firm Digitalsmiths raised an additional $12 million in venture funding, the company announced today. The Series B round was led by .406 Ventures, with money also coming from current investors Chrysalis Ventures and Aurora Funds. The…
Fox Television Stations and NBC Local Media are setting up a local news service to generate general video news coverage and thus reduce costs. The service will start in January 2009 in Philadelphia, where Fox owns WTXF-TV and NBC owns…
“Good Morning America’s” Chris Cuomo has landed the first exclusive TV interview since the election with William Ayers, the 1960s radical-turned-Chicago-activist whose association with President-Elect Barack Obama became a campaign controversy. Mr. Ayers will appear live in the studio Friday,…
BET named new two presidents to run its programming operations. Former MTV executive Loretha Jones joins BET as president of programming. She will be responsible for original programming, news development, planning and acquisition. The Viacom-owned cable network promoted Stephen Hill,…
Mobile video technology firm Transpera landed $8.25 million in a Series B round of funding, the company announced today. The round was led by Flybridge Capital Partners and included investment from Labrador Ventures. The cash is earmarked for product expansion…
MGM and AT&T have signed a carriage deal placing MGM’s high-definition linear network, MGM HD, on the AT&T U-verse TV system, MGM announced Monday. The network will be offered on U-verse’s HD Premium package, a new tier of the service…
HD programming picks for Nov. 13-19: “Law & Order,” “Bad Boys,” “Rush Hour 3” “Law & Order” (NBC) Wed., Nov. 19, 10 p.m.: Lt. Van Buren (S. Epatha Merkerson) and detectives Lupo (Jeremy Sisto) and Bernard (Anthony Anderson) square off…
Circuit City Files for Bankruptcy Done in by the struggling economy, electronics retailer Circuit City filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday, making it the largest retailer to do so in the current slowing market, Bloomberg reports. Suppliers, concerned…
On-demand providers Verizon FiOS TV and Vudu have beefed up their high-definition offerings. Verizon this week said it crossed the 1,000-title threshold, while Vudu claimed the largest HD library in existence with 1,100 titles. Aggressively adding HD content during the…
NBC is pulling the plug on its highly touted fall drama “My Own Worst Enemy” as well as sophomore hour “Lipstick Jungle.” According to a person familiar with the situation, the network has decided not to order any additional episodes…