If you are like me, you have to fly between California and New York often (uggggh!). So, you may also have heard that Virgin America started up new routes last week. I look forward to flying it...
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Blockbuster acquired movie-download service Movielink as it seeks to better position itself for distributing movies through the Internet. Blockbuster said it will continue to operate the Movielink...
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Here is some good news for you Battlestar Galactica fans: creator Ronald D. Moore will remain in the peacock universe, inking a two-year, seven-figure overall deal with Universal Media Studios. As...
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One of America's most important economic foundations is the 30-second television commercial. OK, that might be an exaggeration, but it is the bedrock of about $70 Billion each year in the U.S....
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I just have to vent over something I read and this blog is as good a place as any to do it. The topic: eBay's Online Media Exchange. For those of you who care less about the business of...
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One of the smartest people in the television business that I have ever met is John Malone. Smart in a strategic sense - that is, knowing when to buy or sell an asset because the business was about...
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Movie studios do not like piracy of their content. To date, they have mostly used the "sue the bastards until they stop" strategy. As they gear up for a future of high-definition DVD...
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south korea's LG Electronics signed a deal with YouTube to enable mobile phone users to upload, view and share video clips directly from their phones to the site. LG is planning to release...
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Sony is pulling the plug on the music and video component of its Connect service in the next couple of months choosing instead to focus on the PlayStation group's technical needs, according to...
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The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals overruled the Federal Communications Commission when the FCC decided that Fox was guilty of indecency for the utterance of two expletives in live programming....
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The "high-definition" powers that be are teaming up to bring you state-of-the-art HD presentation of a rock star worthy of showing off all that technological prowess. The star (I kid you...
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Oh, for shame. The end of an era is rapidly descending upon us. As its fans have feared, Sci Fi's Battlestar Galactica will end its run after this, its fourth season. Executive producers Ronald D....
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apple tv, barely 2-months-old, is already a dud. OK, that's not completely fair because as the picture clearly demonstrates, they can act as a furniture leveler. "I think I see why,"...
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says Google: it's not creepy if we have your best interests at heart Today, let's look a little over the horizon at something that would very likely mutate into the digital television space:...
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The history channel says it will move to high-definition (HD) in September with a 24-hour HD simulcast channel available on DirecTV. "The History Channel HD will give our history fanatics an...
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For the first time ever, the Indianapolis 500 this year will be broadcast in High-Definition. ESPN on ABC will air the 91st Indy 500 in high-def on Sunday, May 27 at 1 p.m. ET. The race will take...
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For all you fans of Heroes, NBC Digital Entertainment says it will launch an eight-episode Web series May 21 on nbc.com. Broadcasting and Cable says the series, Inside Heroes, goes behind the scenes...
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Here is something I would like to see more of: ABC's hit show Lost has a time limit to wrap up all its story lines. The show will stop at the end of the 2010 season. This means that......
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At the cable show in Las Vegas, Comcast disclosed that it may be investing another $6 Billion in system upgrades. That would fall in line with comments made by Comcast COO Stephen Burke. He said the...
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I was unable to attend the NAB this year, but one story caught my eye - the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) announced plans to broadcast high-definition video from the moon! Hirokazu...
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