Peter Kafka in Media on May 25 at 12:53 pm PT
Remember when the show couldn’t figure out what to do when Lazy Sunday became a YouTube hit? Now it’s using the Web to show what didn’t even get to TV.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 25 at 8:48 am PT
How to negotiate, Charlie Ergen-style. Threaten, kind of credibly, to blow everything up.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 24 at 7:49 am PT
“The days of, ‘I only want people to experience me at 11, on TBS’ — those days are over. … A whole generation is growing up that doesn’t watch television that way.”
Voices
Shalini Ramachandran, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 21 at 11:39 am PT
Five large cable operators said Monday they will join forces to give customers access to each other’s wireless Internet hot spots in the most sweeping Wi-Fi roaming agreement struck by the industry to date.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 20 at 6:00 am PT
Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell are older and healthier. And they would like a check from YouTube.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 17 at 11:12 am PT
Important for people who stream a whole lot of Internet video, or think they might one day.
Ina Fried in Mobile on May 11 at 4:15 pm PT
T-Mobile, Sprint a public interest group and an association of rural carriers are joining forces to encourage regulators to take a tough look at Verizon’s effort to purchase spectrum from several cable companies.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 10 at 11:41 am PT
New data says the game player serves up more video than the iPad, iPhone or Android. Google TV or Apple TV are so far behind they don’t even make the cut.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 8 at 10:20 am PT
It’s easier than ever to get what you want to watch without paying for TV. But you’re still doing it.
News Byte
Peter Kafka in Media on May 7 at 8:16 pm PT
Elemental Technologies, a six-year-old start-up that helps companies process and manage Web video, has raised a $13 million C round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Earlier investors General Catalyst, Voyager Capital and Steamboat Ventures, who had put $14.5 million into the company, re-upped. Elemental’s clients include Disney, Comcast and Time Warner’s HBO.
