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News Corp.’s Chase Carey Says Phone Hacking Doesn’t Indicate a Culture Problem

Liz Gannes in Dive Into Media on January 31 at 4:55 pm PT

“It certainly has been a difficult year,” said News Corp. COO Chase Carey at D: Dive Into Media this afternoon.

HBO Go Is Finally Going to Be on Time Warner Cable

Peter Kafka in Media on December 16, 2011 at 6:02 pm PT

Time Warner and its former cable company figure it out. Finally.

HBO + iPad = More HBO-Watching, “Steady” HBO Subscribers

Peter Kafka in Media on December 6, 2011 at 11:12 am PT

People who have the on-demand service for iOS or Android love it. But it doesn’t seem to have brought Time Warner’s pay channel any new blood.

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Verizon Signs On for Fox’s Web TV Pullback Plan

Peter Kafka in Media on October 25, 2011 at 11:31 am PT

Another ally for Fox and its “authentication” strategy. Verizon will be adding its four million FiosTV customers to the Fox plan, which keeps most prime time shows off the Web for eight days except for Hulu Plus customers and certain pay TV subscribers. Also along for the ride, Mediacom, a small regional cable player. Disney’s ABC is expected to adopt a similar strategy. Fox is owned by News Corp., which also owns this Web site.

Microsoft Puts More TV in Your Xbox — As Long as You Keep Paying for Cable

Peter Kafka in Media on October 4, 2011 at 6:39 pm PT

Microsoft has a slew of announcements coming tomorrow. One of them: Xbox owners will be able to use the game system as a cable box/streaming video service. It won’t do cord cutters any good.

Using Fox’s New Web TV Plan Isn’t as Hard as Being Waterboarded

Peter Kafka in Media on July 27, 2011 at 8:42 am PT

Fox tells Web surfers how to get their not-really-free anymore Web TV. It’s not rocket science, but it’s going to take some work. Also: Hulu? What Hulu?

Why Time Warner’s “TV Everywhere” Means “Except For Time Warner Cable”

Peter Kafka in Media on July 18, 2011 at 10:54 am PT

Another Time Warner cable channel offers another set of goodies for cable customers — unless they get their cable from Time Warner Cable. What gives?

HBO Comes to the iPad, a Couple Days Early

Peter Kafka in Media on April 29, 2011 at 12:28 pm PT

All the “Sopranos” and most other great HBO shows you can eat–as long as you’re already paying for the TV service. Works on iPhones and some Android models, too.

ESPN's iPhone App Shows Us What TV Everywhere Is Supposed to Look Like

Peter Kafka in Media on April 7, 2011 at 2:00 pm PT

Finally: A free, legal, TV app that does what you think it should do: Lets you watch live TV, wherever you are. (Unless you want to watch “Monday Night Football.”)

'Monday Night Football' Goes Online for Subscribers

Nat Worden, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 26, 2010 at 7:15 am PT

Time Warner Cable Inc. and ESPN are planning to serve up a bold cable-TV experiment in making programming available online behind a paywall, starting with this week’s “Monday Night Football.” The two companies say they will make ESPN’s flagship channel available online for TV subscribers of Time Warner Cable.