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Online Video Turns Up Heat

Suzanne Vranica and Sam Schechner, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Media on April 23 at 3:13 pm PT

Though television may be losing viewers to online video, it has been holding on to advertisers. But with online-video outlets this week making their most organized push yet for ad dollars, that may be starting to change.

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The New Cable-TV Guy: Intel

Sam Schechner and Don Clark, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 12 at 5:00 pm PT

Intel Corp. is developing an Internet-based TV service that it hopes to sell to U.S. consumers, a strategic shift for the chip maker that makes it the latest technology company to look at a foray in the pay-TV business.

Plans for “TV Everywhere” Bog Down in Tangled Pacts

Sam Schechner and Shalini Ramachandran in Media on March 5 at 3:00 am PT

It was dubbed “TV Everywhere.” But for many TV viewers, it has had trouble going anywhere.

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Comcast Is Launching a Netflix Competitor

Sam Schechner, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on February 21 at 10:40 am PT

Comcast Corp. is taking aim at Netflix Inc., unveiling its own streaming-video service that will give existing Comcast video customers a similar selection of old TV shows and movies over the Web.

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Weather Channel Hires Digital-Ad Expert as CEO

Suzanne Vranica and Sam Schechner, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 24 at 2:21 pm PT

The owners of the Weather Channel abruptly replaced the company’s chief executive, Mike Kelly, naming a digital advertising veteran in his place.

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Hulu to Create More Original Shows

Sam Schechner and Christopher S. Stewart, Reporters, The Wall Street Jounal in Media on January 15 at 3:26 pm PT

Online video site Hulu LLC is increasing its output of original shows, the latest in an escalation of TV-like programs being made directly for the Internet, further blurring the lines between the Web and TV.

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Apple Plots Its TV Assault

Jessica E. Vascellaro and Sam Schechner, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on December 18, 2011 at 5:06 pm PT

Apple Inc. is moving forward with its assault on television, following up on the ambitions of its late co-founder, Steve Jobs.

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Dish in Talks for Internet TV

Sam Schechner and Matt Jarzemsky, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Media on November 8, 2011 at 10:22 am PT

Dish Network Corp. has approached several media companies about the possibility of licensing their TV channels for use on a new pay-TV service to be delivered over the Internet, rather than over Dish’s satellite system, according to people familiar with the discussions.

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Google Ponders Pay-TV Business

Sam Schechner and Amir Efrati, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Media on November 4, 2011 at 4:05 am PT

Internet giant Google Inc. is considering a plan to offer paid cable-TV services to consumers, a move that could unleash a new wave of competition within the traditional TV business.

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CNN, HLN to Stream on Web

Sam Schechner, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on July 18, 2011 at 6:22 am PT

Time Warner Inc. is increasing the number of TV channels and programs it pipes over the Internet to people who have conventional pay-TV subscriptions, as the television business faces growing competition from Web-video services.