“Saturday Night Live” Figures It Out

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.
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Dish Network Doesn’t Want to Blow Up TV. It Wants to Pay Less for It.

How to negotiate, Charlie Ergen-style. Threaten, kind of credibly, to blow everything up.
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Conan O’Brien Explains TV’s New Rules (Video)

“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.”
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Voices

Five Cable Firms to Share Wi-Fi Hot Spots

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.

“Lazy Sunday 2”: “Saturday Night Live” Revives Big Media’s First Viral Video

Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell are older and healthier. And they would like a check from YouTube.
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Comcast Turns the Broadband Meter On, and Moves to Usage-Based Billing

Important for people who stream a whole lot of Internet video, or think they might one day.
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T-Mobile, Rural Carrier Group Team Up to Help Fight Verizon’s SpectrumCo Deal

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.
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Microsoft’s Sneaky Success: The Xbox Is the Most Popular Video Player in the U.S.

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.
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Stalking the Elusive Cord-Cutter: Pay TV Grew Last Quarter (Again)

It’s easier than ever to get what you want to watch without paying for TV. But you’re still doing it.
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News Byte

Video Processor Elemental Technologies Raises $13 Million

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.