The big boys are getting into the convergence game, pushing toward a day when the living room TV acts like a personal computer and vice versa. The list of names pushing this agenda is noteworthy: Sony, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix….
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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…
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The third annual NATPE Diversity Fellowship Program will kick off at the LATV Festival in Los Angeles, July 30 through Aug. 1. The fellowship program, which is presented in collaboration with the Walter Kaitz Foundation, will give 24 emerging television…
XETV-TV will become San Diego’s CW affiliate effective Aug. 1, the same day Tribune-owned KSWB trades its CW affiliation to become a Fox Broadcasting affiliate. The announcement of the switch, which had been expected, was posted on the Grupo Televisa-owned…
First, ABC asked viewers to “Start Here.” And now, NBC apparently wants America to “Chime In.” With no advance fanfare, NBC late last month began tagging the end of many of its on-air promotional spots with the slogan “Chime In.”…
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…
Sony, which trailed Samsung among worldwide liquid-crystal display television set makers in the first quarter, said last week that it expects to be the market leader in high-definition TVs by 2011. Also by then, Sony expects to return its LCD…
It took about six months, but DirecTV finally returned Comcast’s salvo. The biggest U.S. satellite television service, which has long touted its superiority in high-definition linear channels over cable companies, this week started offering its on-demand service. The move is…