Eurochannel launches on Android, Google TV devices
Eurochannel has expanded its reach, entering the Internet TV space with the launch of the Eurochannel app on the Play Store for Google TV,...
Local is everywhere
RBR-TVBR has been preaching sermons, for as long as we can remember since the onset of the internet era, that broadcast’s unique selling proposition...
CBS posts increases despite revenue decline
The $3.48B CBS raked during Q2 2012 may sound like a lot, but it isn’t when compared to the $3.59B recorded a year prior....
Univision gains ground during Q2
Net revenues moved forward by 3.8% for multimedia Hispanic giant Univision. With strong ratings, a steady stream of retransmission consent payments and new initiatives,...
Britain’s Financial Times leans digital
There are 599K subscribers to the UK daily Financial Times, and the makeup of that subscriber base is now tilted toward the internet –...
Super PACs will pour high octane cash into TV
There are two differences between political advertising from candidates and political action committees. Candidates have limits on fund-raising, and they are guaranteed lowest unit...
CBC scores rights for 2014, 2016 Olympic Games
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has been awarded broadcast rights to the next two Olympic Games, weeks after Bell Media--rival private network and lead...
Media, friends and kids influence back-to-school spending
Back-to-school budgets will be the same or higher this year, if only because of rising prices, says a Deloitte survey. The study notes that...
Hulu Plus comes to Apple TV boxes
Hulu, the online TV biz owned by Fox, ABC and NBC, said its $7.99-a-month premium service is coming to Apple TV. Customers can register...
Michael Copps: Watchdog
When he was an FCC Commissioner, Michael Copps perhaps came as close to being a media watchdog as a commissioner possibly can. But now...
YouTube offering Olympics to 64 countries; not U.S.
The IOC is freely broadcasting the Olympics to 64 Asian and sub-Saharan African countries on YouTube. Ghanaians, or Indians, or Basotho can tune in,...
Watchdog calls for new Telecom Act
MMTC President David Honig said that the communications industry of today involves things that weren’t even commonly-used terms yet when Telecom 1996 was passed....
Oracle pulls campaign at BBB’s request
A full page Oracle ad in the Wall Street Journal read “Giant European Retailer Moves Databases From IBM Power to Exadata…Runs 20 Times Faster.”
But...
Gripes of Wrath: Few complaining about indecency
In an era when a handful of motivated media watchdogs can inspire thousands of their followers to complain to the FCC, you may think...
Clear Channel Changes Competition
It's akin to a light switch. One moment you claim that Pandora is not your competition, while you are building a Pandora-like delivery platform...