TV Guide

Another TV Guide for Web Video! But Shufflr Wants Your Friends to Do the Work

Peter Kafka in Media on November 16, 2010 at 12:30 pm PT

So let’s say you do want to watch Web video from your couch. Who’s going to find the good stuff for you? A new start-up says it can–by getting you and your friends to do the heavy lifting.

Any Good Live Video on the Web Right Now? Ask Clicker.

Peter Kafka in Media on May 4, 2010 at 10:00 am PT

Web video guide Clicker is adding real-time streams to its catalog. But just the legal ones. You’ll have to get pirated World Cup feeds on your own.

Clicker's Jim Lanzone Talks About TV on the Web (And Shows Off L.A. Digs)

Kara Swisher in News on April 15, 2010 at 6:58 am PT

During my recent sojourn in Los Angeles, BoomTown dropped in on the Melrose Avenue HQ of Clicker, the Web site trying to make search sense of premium video on the Web. I had a chat with Jim Lanzone, former CEO of fourth-ranked search engine Ask about whether such a service could survive with giants like Google around. He is certainly trying to differentiate Clicker, which aims to steer clear of both copyright issues and huge bandwidth costs by simply being a helpful friend to consumers in search of good video.

More Money for Web Video? Sure: Clicker Raises Another $11 Million.

Peter Kafka in Media on February 18, 2010 at 6:01 am PT

How do you launch a Web video start-up without getting crushed by lawsuits and bandwidth bills? Launch a Web video search engine. That’s the thesis behind Clicker, a would-be TV Guide for Web video, which has raised an $11 million B round led by JAFCO Ventures, with participation from earlier investors Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures. The funding follows an $8 million round announced last fall that was actually raised in 2008.

HBO Go Is Nice, But It Won’t Help Cord Cutters

Peter Kafka in Media on February 17, 2010 at 9:29 am PT

HBO’s new site is nice, but you can already get the same programming on the Web via Comcast’s Fancast–if you’re already paying for HBO on your TV. But what if you want to pay for HBO without paying for cable TV? Not happening.

BusinessWeek’s Pitch to Investors: Buy Us, Then Fire Us

Peter Kafka in Media on September 15, 2009 at 9:10 am PT

How do you sell a business magazine that lost $43 million last year? Convince buyers that they could fire 20 percent of the staff without missing a beat. That’s part of the pitch Evercore Partners has been making to investors on behalf of McGraw-Hill, which wants to dump BusinessWeek. Look out, copy editors!

BusinessWeek Explains Why BusinessWeek Is for Sale: It’s a Money Pit

Peter Kafka in Media on July 24, 2009 at 5:44 am PT

Earlier this year, a top BusinessWeek editor assured me that McGraw-Hill wouldn’t part with the publication–because even if it was losing money it was still a trophy asset for the publisher. But perhaps my source didn’t comprehend how much money his employer was actually losing.

Macrovision's Take for TV Guide: A Single Dollar

Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on October 15, 2008 at 4:04 pm PT

Well, this would explain why they didn’t want to disclose the price. In a filing with the SEC, Macrovision (MVSN) disclosed the price tag for the sale of TV Guide to OpenGate Capital, and it’s a stunner: a single dollar, along with the assumption of liabilities. (Like the need to fulfill current subscriptions.)