BMW iVentures to invest millions in Smartphone app start-ups
The BMW iVentures capital fund, which recently opened up shop in NYC, is prepared to invest as much as $100 million in start-ups developing...
Twentieth Century Fox, Netflix add to distribution deal
This new multi-year agreement allows Netflix to provide its members with instant access to additional television series including the first season of "Glee" (FOX)...
The Weather Channel to launch four-screen premiere
TWC will premiere its newest original series, “From the Edge with Peter Lik,” 3/31 at 8 p.m. ET. The half-hour action adventure nature series...
CBS partners with CityGrid for local web dollars
CBS Local Digital Media and CityGrid Media will leverage CBS’s two dozen co-branded television and radio websites in major markets across the country to...
Salem makes another non-radio acquisition
Salem Web Network, a division of Salem Communications, announced that it has acquired WorshipHouse Media. Terms were not disclosed.
The newly acquired property is described...
HD Radio Alliance re-launches HD Radio website
Designed to enhance listeners’ interest and interaction in discovering the benefits of HD Radio broadcasting, the HD Radio Alliance has re-launched www.hdradio.com as a...
CBS.com debuts "Hawaii: Undiscovered"
It’s a new online-only web series, inspired by CBS’s Hawaii Five-0: The eight-episode production debuted 3/28 at www.CBS.com/HawaiiUndiscovered. Each five-minute webisode takes viewers around...
SpectrumEvolution.org launches new advocacy site
Broadcasters can give the people what they want and need, so says SpectrumEvolution.org (SEO) via a new website -- www.Free-Internet.us --designed to assist both...
Second Street signs McClatchy newspaper sites
The provider of online promotions platforms for local media companies says The McClatchy Company will begin hosting daily deals on its local newspaper websites...
Clear Channel looking at Playlist.com assets
Clear Channel is one of the companies taking a serious look at the assets of Playlist.com, the once promising digital music service that filed...
CBS Radio San Francisco signs Dibbs Download
Dibbs, an entertainment and events app, has signed five CBS Radio stations to air the Dibbs Download every Friday afternoon staring 3/25 – KCBS...
Westwood One signs with Jelli for advertising
Westwood One signed a multi-year deal with Jelli (jelli.com), which mixes traditional radio with social media, putting listeners in control of what goes on...
Microsoft reportedly will stop new versions of Zune
Microsoft plans to discontinue its Zune media player device due to weak sales, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the decision. The company...
CBSSports.com to offer video archive services to college sports
The CBS Interactive division that produces some 175 official collegiate athletic sites, and Thought Equity Motion, provider of video platform and footage licensing services,...
AOL cuts 900 jobs, post-Huffington
Not long after AOL detailed plans to buy the Huffington Post for $315 million, the axe fell, and 900 people were laid off worldwide,...