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Peter Kafka in Media on March 1 at 3:30 pm PT
The owners of four New York-area TV stations have
sued Aereo, the start-up that plans to give users Web access to live broadcast TV. Aereo, which has raised $25 million from backers including
Barry Diller’s IAC and
venture investors like First Round Capital, has been expecting copyright challenges from the TV industry.
It argues that its technology is legal because individual users will be getting streamed TV from their own individual antennas. One of the plaintiffs, Fox Television Stations, is owned by News Corp., which also owns this Web site.
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Christopher S. Stewart, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on February 21 at 5:00 am PT
It’s cool to have rabbit ears again. Largely relegated to obscurity decades ago, old-fashioned television broadcasts — over the airwaves and not via cable or satellite — are enjoying an unexpected revival in the digital era.
With an increased array of online-video programming now drawing viewers’ attention, companies are starting to pitch consumers on complementing online video streamed from the Web with broadcast-TV signals as a way to save money on cable subscriptions.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 9, 2011 at 7:36 am PT
“Not if, just when in 2012″, says analyst Rich Greenfield. OK. But who? Amazon? Verizon? Wal-Mart?
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Tom Loftus, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on December 2, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
YouTube unveiled its largest redesign yet Thursday, bringing user personalization and the video Web site’s growing selection of programming topics, or “channels,” front and center.
Kara Swisher in Media on October 2, 2011 at 2:00 pm PT
Longtime media and Internet exec Bob Pittman has been named CEO of radio broadcast and outdoor advertising giant Clear Channel, the company announced today.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 14, 2011 at 4:27 am PT
The Grammys generated a flurry of online interest last night, but the music industry’s biggest event of the year is AWOL this morning. Opportunity wasted.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 9, 2011 at 7:16 am PT
If you’re reading this, there are decent odds you don’t watch your local TV news broadcast. Would you be any more inclined if it featured a dollop of Twitter?
Liz Gannes in Social on January 5, 2011 at 12:31 am PT
Just when you thought Twitter had become a basic tool that serves many purposes, we’re reminded that the service has fostered an actual community.
At least that’s the case in my little corner of the Twitterverse, which tonight has overflowed with a meme that just about everyone can participate in and appreciate: #lessambitiousmovies.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 31, 2010 at 12:59 pm PT
The RunKeeper Pro app, usually $9.99, is free from now through the end of January. Since the promotion started yesterday, downloads of the app have been up more than 10 times the normal number for a single day.
