CBS, Time Warner Cable Extend Talks After Brief TV Blackout
CBS Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. agreed to extend their negotiating deadline until 5 pm Friday, after a short blackout of the CBS network on Time Warner Cable systems in some markets around...
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Harry Potter and the Astonishing iTunes Price Mix-Up
Much to Hollywood’s dismay, home video watchers are increasingly disinterested in buying movies. But if you price these things really, really low, you’ll find some takers. Hence a flurry of interest...
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How to Watch CNN for Free, Without Paying for Cable*
Wouldn’t it be great to watch cable programming without having to pay cable programmers? CNN sort of hears you, cord-cutters, cord-nevers and other non-pay-TV-payers: Head over to CNN.com. Scroll down...
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New Media Pink Slips Cost Less Than Old Media Pink Slips
Image copyright R. Gino Santa MariaOne of the many differences between old media companies and new media companies: It’s a lot cheaper to fire people at new media companies. AOL said it will spend...
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Meet Vice Media Boss Shane Smith, Rupert Murdoch's "Wild" New Pal
Move over, David Karp — you’re not the only Williamsburg dude with a billion-dollar new-media company anymore. A new investment from Rupert Murdoch values Shane Smith’s Vice Media, the...
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Maker Studios Buys Blip, and a Home Outside of YouTube
Maker Studios, one of the biggest YouTube networks, is buying Blip, a video-maker and distributor. Blip officials informed their staff of the deal this morning, and it is expected to close in early...
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Maker Studios Finishes Buying Blip, and Looks for New Pile of Money
YouTube heavyweight Maker Studios has finished acquiring Blip, the video network and distributor. This is the deal I told you about late last month. And while Maker isn’t saying much about it now, it...
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Apple Won't Introduce New Apple TV Box Next Week, Will Upgrade Software
There are very, very good odds you’re going to hear about new iPhones at Apple’s event next Tuesday. But if you’re looking for a new Apple TV, you’re going to be disappointed. Despite speculation about...
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Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About News on the Web, Which Will Take...
I don’t know what to say about Riptide, the massive oral history of digital journalism that popped up on the Web tonight. That’s because I’ve been looking at it for a couple hours, and have no idea how...
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Facebook Tries Another Twitter-Like Move
Here’s the latest Twitter-like move from Facebook: Two new data feeds that are supposed to make it easy for outsiders to tell what people are talking about on Facebook. The idea: If, say, CNN wants to...
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Amazon Tries Breaking From the Streaming-Video Pack With Offline Viewing for...
Amazon has been spending a lot of time and money trying to catch up to Netflix in the subscription video race. So far, not much luck: Many more people seem to be watching video via Reed Hastings’...
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You Might Be Able to Pay for HBO Without Paying for Cable. But You're Still...
Jeff Bewkes You say you love HBO — or the idea of HBO — but you don’t want to pay for other TV networks in order to watch it? Well, maybe, possibly, that could happen. One day. But you’re still going...
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HBO COO Eric Kessler -- Who Spearheaded Its Digital Strategy -- Is Departing
According to a memo from HBO CEO Richard Plepler, COO Eric Kessler will be departing the premium cable channel. “After careful consideration we have decided that the COO position does not best serve...
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No Matter How Hard You Squint At It, the New York Times Can't Be a TV Company
The New York Times continues to struggle with advertising. That’s not getting better anytime soon. But the publisher has had luck getting readers to pay for the paper, which is why circulation revenue...
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Booming Vox Media, the People Behind The Verge and SB Nation, Raises Another...
Tech investors are supposed to avoid content businesses. But they do make exceptions: The people who brought you the Huffington Post, for example, have been able to raise a ton of money for BuzzFeed....
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Facebook Reminds Media Companies: We Still Really, Really Like You
Unsubtle reminder from Facebook to media companies: We’re really big, and we can send you a lot of traffic. The longer version comes here, via a Facebook blog post boasting about all the eyeballs they...
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Dear Internet: You Still Can't Get HBO Without Paying for Cable
Lots of people who read sites like this site love the idea of paying for HBO without paying for cable. So, news that Comcast and HBO are letting you do just that has lots of people very excited. The...
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Time Inc. Limps Toward a Spring Spinout
Sometime next spring, Time Warner will no longer own Time Inc., the world’s largest magazine publisher. The media conglomerate is jettisoning its namesake unit, and will become a company that only...
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Apple TV Adds Yahoo, PBS
Apple has signed on more video providers for its Apple TV box: Yahoo is now offering its Yahoo Screen service on the Web video gadget, and PBS has created an app that lets users watch some, but not...
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Google Tries Rebooting Its Flipboard Clone, and Starts Selling the New York...
A couple of years ago it seemed very important for every big consumer Web company to have its own version of Flipboard, the mobile app that lets you assemble your own digital magazine. AOL launched...
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Time Inc.'s Closed-Wallet Strategy
Time Inc. made its initial public filing on Friday afternoon, as it prepares to jettison from Time Warner. Nothing surprising in there: As we already knew, the publishing giant has been watching its...
View ArticleHollywood Presses Anti-Piracy Trade Measures With Obama
Entertainment executives meeting privately with President Barack Obama Tuesday asked him to ensure copyright protections are enshrined in new trade agreements and help facilitate better relations...
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Surprise! You're Watching More TV Than Ever.
No one watches TV anymore. You don’t, and no one you know does, and it’s just a matter of time before the TV Industrial Complex folds in on itself and disappears. Except … it turns out that people are....
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Simulmedia's Investors Bet $25 Million More on Smart TV Ads (Video)
Dave Morgan’s pitch is simple, and counterintuitive: There’s going to be a boom in video ads — and it’s going to happen on TV. The Simulmedia CEO doesn’t mean that the TV Industrial Complex is going...
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Netflix Doesn't Have the Market Cornered on Binge TV: Zombies + Walter White...
Everyone* gets the concept of binge-viewing. And most people now associate binge-viewing with Netflix, in part because Netflix wants us to associate binge-viewing with Netflix. But if you want to gorge...
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