BREAKING NEWS I see that Apple shares are trading down in the pre-market. Driving that is the announcement that the company will delay the shipment of its Apple TV device until mid-March. Apple gave...

Last month, Google said it intended to syndicate video clips. This would allow companies to spread their clips across the Internet to other sites while monetizing them with ad support by Google. Back...

Hey, there are no protections in Life 2.0 You really must read The Media Guy at Media Works. Often hilarious. As a reader service, Media Guy fields imaginary questions from nonexistent readers. (note...

For you fans of My Name is Earl, you now have many many more ways to view it. In other words, Earl is for sale on multiple digital platforms. This includes iTunes, AOL, Walmart.com, CinemaNow, as well...

"We're not here to trash television," Wenda Harris Millard said at Yahoo's first upfront, er, infront. But, she noted, 17% of a consumer's time is spent online, and only 6% of...

Earlier in the week, MTV announced it would lay off 250 people. Normally, not a story to yap about here. But Friday, MTV showed how important the Internet is after shifting more resources to broadband...

I certainly hope that concerts combined with broadband video streaming onto computer monitors does not contribute to global warming. Because if it does, then former Vice President Al Gore might want...

Political Correctness Gone Amok Don't ask me why, but this story amuses me. It turns out that General Motors has caved to pressure from a suicide prevention group and agreed to change an ad that...

I have to ask: who are these people? I am referring to the Nielsen Research report in the NY Times article today that says "a lot of people with digital video recorders are not fast-forwarding...

via Online Media Daily A NEW STUDY ON MOBILE TV in Europe offers a reality check for anyone getting giddy about the emerging medium in the United States. A survey conducted by M:Metrics and...

A new way to define niche audiences in a time challenged world Om Malik at Business 2.0 writes about Mark Hall, a former executive with RealNetworks, and his decision "to address the growing need...

from MultiChannel News: AT&T and Music Choice announced a distribution agreement last week to deliver dozens of Music Choice audio channels as part of the telco's U-verse TV channel lineup....

For all these decades, Nielsen has not included college students who live in dorms in its national ratings data. They have now reversed that, including roughly 2.1 million students. And according to...

Inquiring minds want to know. So here it is ... The Super Bowl commercial with the highest-rated commercial minute belongs to Hewlett-Packard. It drew 99.5 million viewers at 9:25 p.m. while a Toyota...

Perhaps you've seen a video circulating widely on the web last week which purports to show a geeky-looking Mark Erickson explaining the complicated instructions for accessing GoogleTV. After he...

I am sure that I'll have more to comment on later, but this news bit just flashed onto the Down Jones newswires. ESPN apparently received a multi-year contract to provide its Mobile ESPN to...

Amazon.com. CinemaNow. iTunes. Wal-Mart? Yes. Today Wal-Mart is unveiling its video download Web site; the first traditional retailer to do so. We are talking about the download-to-own market not the...

Here is a data point from the triple play wars. Comcast released its latest financial report to Wall Street. "I think simply it may have been our best year ever," said Brian Roberts,...

A regular on YouTube.com has generated enough interest to land a gig on Fox's MADtv. Lisa Donovan, known as "Lisa Nova" on YouTube, will make her first appearance on the late Saturday...