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...

we still like what you are doing. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Sumner Redstone is today's case in point. He is the majority owner of Viacom, the largest critic of...

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...

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...

Streaming headlong into the video-on-demand server market, Sun Microsystems introduced a large-capacity system that they claim provides the ability to deliver more than 10 times as many streams as...

Verizon Communications said its video business accelerated in the first quarter with a net 141,000 new customers for FiOS TV, bringing the telco to a total of 348,000 subscribers at the end of the...

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...

View poetry in an entirely new and innovative way. Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America's best-selling poets, reads his poem "Forgetfulness" with animation by Julian...

Broadcasting and Cable The nation's largest cable operators say they are "just scratching the surface" of video-on-demand and promised to offer a cavalcade of new products to allow...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Bending spoons and laws Ah, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was meant to extend the reach of copyright laws while limiting the liability of online providers from copyright infringement by their...

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...

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......

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...

Sony Pictures Television plans to repurpose old TV shows, cutting them down to three and a half to five minutes long for online play. As the president of Sony Television described it to The New York...