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The worldwide pay-TV market reached 903.3 million subscribers in 2013, generating $249.8 billion in

Television station transactions exploded in 2013, because the healthy TV environment in 2012 bolstered investor confidence, according to

Unified Video Technologies (UNIV), provider of complete media ecosystems and software services for broadcasters, enterprises and the entertainment

As the dust tries to settle on the recent US Court of Appeals ruling in favor of defeating the FCC’s net neutrality rules, Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theatres, Magnolia Pictures, chairman of AXS TV and founder of Broadcast.com/AudioNet (which was sold to Yahoo! for $5.8 billion in ‘99), penned a blog via BlogMaverick warning that companies should be looking at the future of “app neutrality” as well.

Nielsen can measure television audiences and radio audiences, and it would like to add the ability to obtain insights into the customers that media serves. So last November, it announced an agreement to acquire noted research firm Harris Interactive. Now, Nielsen Holdings, its wholly-owned subsidiary, Prime Acquisition Corp., and Harris Interactive announced that the offer price for all outstanding shares of common stock of Harris Interactive has been increased from $2.00 to $2.04 per share pursuant to the terms of the merger agreement announced on 11/25/13.

Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., senior Democrat of House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee and Henry Waxman, Ranking Member of

The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has announced a Call for Proposals regarding audio and/or video watermarking technologies

Blockbuster LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DISH Network Corp., has completed the sale of Blockbuster Mexico to Grupo Elektra

While MVPDs are arguing on Capitol Hill that must-carry is a burden, here’s an authoritative study from the NAB and National Religious Broadcasters (NRB)...

Here’s a blog post by NAB Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning Rick Kaplan in response to a filing

Journal Broadcast Group reached new retransmission consent agreements for television carriage of Journal stations

WWE Network, the first-ever 24/7 streaming network, will launch live in the U.S. on 2/24, featuring all 12 WWE

According to eMarketer and Flurry, downloads of apps were up 91% on Christmas Day compared with the average day during the first