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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“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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Dish’s Ads to End All Ads

Dish Network Corp. plans to promote its new ad-skipping feature with, ironically enough, a television ad — that is, if broadcast TV networks agree to run the spot.

Exclusive: Yahoo’s Thompson Out; Levinsohn In; Board Settlement With Loeb Nears Completion

The final shoe — shoe store, really — drops.
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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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Why You Can’t See SNL’s Great “Game of Thrones” Sketch on NBC.com

Or Hulu, for that matter. Luckily, there’s always Gawker.
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Yahoo Hopes to Fight Back at Activist Shareholder Third Point With More New Board Members of Its Own

In the battle for the board, Yahoo is not sitting still.
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Gawker’s Nick Denton Loves Dumb Questions, and His NBC Profile

The blog pioneer gets his 11 minutes of fame, on prime-time broadcast TV. Yawn if you want, Internet know-it-alls: “The dumb questions are almost always the interesting ones.”
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NBC Reruns on Netflix Boost Comcast’s Bottom Line

Yes, Netflix is playing around with new shows. But it is spending the really big bucks on old stuff — just ask NBC, which picked up hundreds of millions of high-margin dollars last year.
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Barry Diller Gets Into the “Cord-Cutting” Business

Kinda sorta: The IAC head is backing Aereo, a start-up that will let you watch some TV — but not all TV — live on your iPad.
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Why the Future of TV Won’t Be Here Soon