YouTube proudly says "Broadcast Yourself" in its logo. For most that means putting ridiculous videos of karaoke or cat tricks onlne. But what about breaking news that no one else will air...

I read with interest a product review done by EDN (the voice of the electronics engineer). It was about the 4th generation of Archos portable devices. I am familiar with this vendor because their...

The New York Times Co. announced its acquisition from Hollywood Media Corp of a film and television database called "Baseline StudioSystems" for $35 million in cash. Just to make it clear:...

Just as Google delves deeper and deeper into online video the company's PR hawks are out in full force to declare it is not a media company. It aims to be friends with media companies rather than...

Lycos has put in place an alliance with video search engine Blinkx. Through the deal, blinkx will add its index of more than four million hours of searchable video content -- including clips of TV...

Interactive gaming, a $20 billion business, is being eyed by U.S. TV networks. With successful shows already offered in Europe, TBS this week rolls out "Midnight Money Madness," a series...

Just how Microsoft plans to challenge Apple's iPod is becoming a little clearer. Microsoft filed some specifications for the Zune digital-media player with the Federal Communications Commission...

Much is being made of the news that AOL has started selling downloads of full-length movies from four studios--20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros....

Yahoo is canceling "Richard Bangs Adventures" only a year after launching the video travelogue as one of its first original shows. A Yahoo spokesman said that the program, featuring veteran...

I popped over to YouTube and there it was: a commercial for Warner Brother's movie Beerfest. That ad was followed by a front page video ad featuring Paris Hilton, in which the celebrity directly...

Yahoo launched a new site devoted to the fall prime-time lineup called, appropriately enough, Yahoo TV Fall 2006 Preview. It includes detailed information about 34 of the major networks'...

Forbes has an article about TiVo's Ups And Downs. Here is a quick timeline to catch most of us up who don't bother to keep up with the latest from the court battle between EchoStar and TiVo....

Video sharing sites are a hot commodity. I recall reading somewhere that venture capitalists have poured more than $150 Million into 40 or more new startups just in the first 6 months of this year....

San Francisco Chronicle (via Online Media Daily) It may have raised a collective eyebrow when former Vice President Al Gore and Joel Hyatt introduced Current TV, the San Francisco-based...

Good news for fans of Showtime's "Weeds" and the new defunct Fox series "Arrested Development" MSN Video announced that it is making the second-season premiere of...

A few months ago, CBS launched a broadband television channel called innertube. Like the CBS network on television, it provides its shows for free, supported by ads. When I last checked it out, it...

We know that Rupert Murdock owns a lot of things besides U.S. Senators - particularly businesses that can be put together to deliver video direct to viewers. The companies involved in their latest...

I recall a breakfast when a highly placed executive at Time Warner speculated to me that someday one of the three major broadcast networks would go to 100% sports programming to combat DVR...

Nielsen//NetRatings is reporting that MySace has grown faster than Yahoo, Google, or any of the other of the Web's top brands during the last year. MySpace last month drew 46 million unique...