It is inevitable that video on demand (VOD) will be ad supported. When it does, will the advertisements be targeted to who is watching? Perhaps not in the first generation of that future ad market,...

I ran across the folks at Narrowstep a few years ago and had a chance to look at their system. It was quite interesting and it was then it hit me how easy it would be someday for anyone and......

Viacom is looking to supply a major Internet portal with its content, according to the Financial Times. During the company's fourth quarter earnings conference call, Chief Executive Tom Freston...

Turner Sports is looking to take advantage of the Daytona 500's popularity by launching a Daytona 500 ad gallery at NASCAR.com. NASCAR.com's strategy is similar to that of AOL, which created a...

You would think that the programmers and the cable companies should stop fighting each other and build a mutually advantageous VOD platform for everyone. That thought got another boost today. The...

Points North Group research found that 25% of Internet users are interested in watching downloaded TV shows and movies on their PCs and 38% expressed interest in watching that same video on their TVs....

NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH ANNOUNCED plans to add college students living away from home into its national TV ratings sample beginning in early 2007, marking the first time it will incorporate a so-called...

NBC Universal has an on-demand deal with Apple Computer's iTunes and DirecTV. But now that they have caught the 'on demand religion' they may be going overboard. NBC has completed a deal...

recap from Business Week: Ronald Grover, who has covered media for Business Week for a couple of decades, sees the emergence of a "worst nightmare" scenario for traditional media: Somewhere,...