Google has teamed with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation to make the Foundation's Archive of American Television interviews available for free viewing on Google Video....

IPTV to reach nearly 10% of European pay-TV market by 2009. A report from Screen Digest says that IPTV will provide a significant challenge to the established satellite and cable operators in Europe....

The advertising business is in a transition that no one fully understands or controls. The advent of Internet Television and the Internet giants entering into video on demand, it is useful to see what...

Ultimately, there are two immovable parties in television: the people who create something worth watching and the audience. Without either, there is not much a business. Everyone else is an...

Just before Thanksgiving, I wrote a post called MPAA: 'This week we created a great plan, next week we allocate resources to revise the plan'. I came across another MPAA story from earlier in...

You gotta like the irony in this situation: Comcast buys AT&T Cable to become the prodominant provider of cable television in the U.S. Fast forward to 2005 and what's left of AT&T is being...

There is only one way to fight illegal P2P networks; start offering a value added legal service that consumers embrace. I am a simple guy, so my definition of "value added" is this: fast...

Research firm Infonetics Research predicted that worldwide IPTV revenue will hit $44 billion by 2009 with 53 million subscribers. I don't mean to be a party-pooper, but that is a tad high in my...

During a UBS Warburg LLC analysts conference, SBC CTO John Stankey said that they hope to launch SBC's IPTV service beyond San Antonio in late second-quarter 2006. While initial testing in 40...

IP Democracy is reporting that Verizon is ready next week for its second market launch; this time the DC exurb of Herndon. This market puts them in competition with cable provider Cox Communications....

Cable operators are entering a cycle of network and set top box upgrades to deliver advanced video services. Telco's also have begun building entirely new infrastructures for video entertainment....

NBC Nightly News is the first network evening-news show to run in its entirety online. The full 30-minute newscast is available at MSNBC.com (specifically, nightlynews.msnbc.com. At ABC and CBS,...

The phrase 'time shifted' television is what happens when people record their favorite shows onto a DVR and watch them later. In my household, it is probably fair to say that over 90% of...

... or at least that is what he said during Disney's recent financial reporting. I think that he is in error, but this is what he believes: (excerpts from AdAge) Walt Disney Co. CEO Robert Iger...

If Microsoft or Google strike a deal to buy AOL, I am doubtful that it would be for the entire entity. More likely any deal will be a partnership with Time Warner retaining a significant piece of AOL....

Back in the 90's, there was a venture capital clique that goes something like "a technology in search of a solution." As in so many areas of media, the fact that a technology exists to...

Twin bombshells hit today and just when I was starting to wonder if VOD was going to die a slow death from lack of quality content. But given the ultra-cautious approach and limitations, we cannot...