8 posts and columns on TNT

Viral Video: Steven Spielberg's Latest Alien Invasion

in News on March 30, 2011 at 2:36 am PT

This new television series from TNT about aliens invading Earth, titled “Falling Skies,” is exec-produced by Steven Spielberg. As you might recall, the Hollywood legend knows a thing or two about space creatures, including making hit movies such as “E.T.” But these new aliens, as it turns out, aren’t quite so cuddly.

Trying Out a Revamped Myspace

in The Mossberg Solution on December 21, 2010 at 3:02 pm PT

Katie reviews the revamped Myspace, with its focus on topics in popular culture, including television, music, movies, celebrities and comedy.
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Time Warner Cable Offers Cheaper TV Package Without ESPN

in News on November 18, 2010 at 10:15 pm PT

Time Warner Cable Inc. is rolling out a lower-priced cable TV package called “TV Essentials” that excludes major cable networks like ESPN, Comedy Central, TNT, Fox News, MSNBC, Fox regional sports networks and MSG.

LeBron James Gets a Jump on the Season, With an Assist From the Internet

in Media on October 25, 2010 at 3:18 pm PT

In the old days, advertisers had to pay media companies to run their ads. Now you just put it out on YouTube, and let everyone else spread the word, gratis.

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Time Warner Sees Ally in Web

in News on October 6, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

The chief executive of Time Warner Inc. said he is turning to Google Inc. as an ally in his push to bring cable shows to users across various devices and that the Web giant’s new service for accessing and searching Internet programming on TVs isn’t the threat many television distributors fear.

The Jay Leno Effect: Eyeballs Bail on Broadcast for Cable

in Media on December 22, 2009 at 9:32 am PT

When you sit down to watch TV at night, you don’t distinguish between shows that are on broadcast TV and those on cable. You just want to watch TV. But TV executives and advertisers haven’t caught up with you. Maybe Jay Leno will help them figure it out.
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Starz Joins Comcast’s “Web TV You’ll Pay to See” Lineup

in Media on July 9, 2009 at 2:02 pm PT

Liberty Media’s Starz Entertainment has signed on to Comcast’s “On Demand Online” program, which is the first test of the cable industry’s “authentication”/“entitlement” strategy. Or, as I like to call it, “Web TV You’ll Pay to See.” Starz, which has the cable and Web rights to much of the Disney catalog, among other assets, says it will make some of those films, including “Wall-E” and “High School Musical 3,” available for Comcast’s test, which is supposed to launch this month. Also available: TV series like “Crash” and non-Disney movies like Sony’s “Step Brothers.”
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Web TV You’ll Need to Pay to See: Time Warner, Comcast Roll Out “Authentication.” Who Else Is In?

in Media on June 24, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes and Comcast CEO Brian Roberts will announce this morning that their two companies are linking up for a trial of an “authentication” effort. That means a handful of cable subscribers will get online access to Time Warner TV shows that have been previously kept off the Web. The idea is to protect cable subscription revenues by giving pay TV subscribers–but only subscribers–Web access to all the shows they get on TV. It’s a simple idea, but making it a reality will be very, very complicated.
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