TNT and TBS will stream all seven of their original summer series on TNT.tv and TBS.com. Episodes of The Closer, Heartland, Saving Grace, The Company from TNT and House of Payne, The Bill Engvall...
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by martino on May 31, 2007
A day after this blog quoted Fortune magazine saying that Apple TV is "a dud," Apple announced a deal with Google to show YouTube videos on the Apple TV device. Business Week wrote that by...
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by martino on May 31, 2007
Cynopsis Digital reported that former Google engineers and product managers are quietly working on a new video start up called Ooyala currently in closed beta that has piqued the curiosity of Silicon...
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by martino on May 29, 2007
Bloggers in morocco discovered last Friday that they no longer had access to YouTube. A spokesman for the state-controlled telecom provider (Maroc Telecom) blamed the problem on a technical glitch....
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by martino on May 25, 2007
A separate section of MySpace Video will feature video from the NY Times, Reuters, LX.TV, and IGN Entertainment. Apparently, there will be no pre- or post-roll ads, product placements, or corporate...
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by martino on May 23, 2007
If a beer bottle spills in the forest and there is no one to see it, does it still count as waste? Bud.TV, had high hopes in the Internet video space. When it launched, there were reports to expect...
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by martino on May 22, 2007
Apple's iTunes will gladly sell you video downloads. And others like Amazon.com and Wal-Mart would like that opportunity too. In fact, many technology and media companies are building models...
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by martino on May 19, 2007
ABC says it will soon deliver high-definition programming over the Internet, as well as provide a range of on-demand and streaming content to Sprint mobile phones. Hi Def over the Internet In July,...
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Advertising Age points out "that [the] three-hour slice of the evening [called prime time] last year attracted $15 billion in TV ad spending." Back in the day, networks used to refer to that...
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by martino on May 14, 2007
CNNMoney.com has a story about a startup called Babelgum I thought interesting to pass along with a few comments. Briefly, Babelgum is an Internet TV company (still in beta) that works because of...
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by martino on May 11, 2007
Joost hand over the money Since I am a beta participant in Joost's new P2P video service, I have known that the company is for real in terms of its technological prowess. And I have watched it try...
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by martino on May 11, 2007
American Idol is not my taste in television. But you would have to be living under a rock not to know that it has been one of the biggest hits on the tube. Those same rock dwellers would likely...
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by martino on May 10, 2007
from the television set, that is The Center for Media Research says that a soon to be released study by E-Poll "Multi-Platform Viewing of Video Content," the youth are leading the way, with...
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by martino on May 09, 2007
Back in March, NBC Universal and News Corp. announced a joint venture that will license video content to Web sites. A sort of broadcast media answer to YouTube. ABC and CBS choose not to join in...
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by martino on April 26, 2007
Here's the good news: YouTube may start splitting advertising revenue with small-fry content owners like you and me. Here's the bad news: there is no revenue to share. Last week Variety wrote...
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by martino on April 23, 2007
Much of the world is oblivious to Microsoft's plans to use the Xbox as a gateway to the television. Presently, there is reported 1,500 hours worth of TV shows and movies including The Daily Show,...
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by martino on April 17, 2007
No truth to the rumor that the network is expanding its audience with new shows called My Name is Oil and Everybody Hates Rabin YouTube has made yet another deal with yet another networker: Al...
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by martino on April 17, 2007
prime time for the television networks also is prime time for their Web sites, according to a new report by Nielsen//NetRatings. The weekday hours of 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. account for 40% of the total...
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