Topic: Broadcast Media

Murdoch Takes on Ticketmaster With "Foxtix"

The billionaire media magnate launches a Ticketmaster competitor in Australia. Will it soon challenge the ticket giant in the U.S. too?READ»

Google Introduces Google TV

Google's ever-expanding tentacles are now moving into the entertainment world with this week's launch of Google TV, a platform that purportedly combines "current TV programming and the open web into a single, seamless entertainment experience."READ»

Next On iTunes: 99-Cent TV Episode Rentals?

Apple is reportedly preparing to rent you TV episodes for the same price as a music single. READ»

Is Google TV Being Blocked by the Networks?

Google's TV project hit the headlines with a splash with big-name launch partners like Sony and Intel. But is the effort to populate the thing with content stuttering?READ»

MTV Catching Web TV Bug With First Digital-Only Drama

MTV, a veteran at changing how a complete entertainment genre actually works, is launching its first Web-only TV drama show. Thing is, is MTV shining a light on the way ahead for TV, or just late to the party?READ»

Rupert Murdoch Rumored to Be Launching Tablet-Targeted News Service

Tablets, apparently, are the new tabloids.READ»

Crowdsourcing Production Costs, Web Drama Hosts Web-a-Thon to Fund New Season

Web series "Anyone But Me" is launching its first-ever Web-a-Thon Tuesday to crowdsource funding for its third season. The event is the first of its kind in the world of online TV, and will need to raise $120,000 in just three days to bring the show back.READ»

Sweden Getting World's First Pirate-Friendly ISP

The new pirate political party in Sweden, which takes a stern anti-copyright stance, and helps out torrent-sharer Pirate Bay, now plans to launch the world's first "pirate ISP." It'll be anonymized, safe, and feed funds to the party ...READ»

World's Best Skyscraper Awards Include Stout, Rusty School Building in England

Is it a sign of the times?READ»

MySpace Co-President Departs Just Months After Taking Over

MySpace death spiral alert: Co-president Jason Hirschhorn has announced his departure from the troubled social network.READ»

News Corp.'s Other Murdoch: How Dare the British Library Charge for Its Digital Newspaper Archive!

Please feel free to file this in the C.E.Oh-no-he-di'nt folder: News Corp.'s James Murdoch has publicly slapped plans by the British Library, one of the most venerable libraries in the world, for digitizing its newspaper archive.For ...READ»

Eyepartner Simplifies 1080 HD LIVE Streaming From the Desktop

Broadcasting LIVE HD video from your Desktop has been a challenge to media professionals, broadcasting networks and corporate businesses worldwide. Eyepartner has developed a product called “The HD Wave” that runs on ...READ»

News Corp's Murdoch Bites iTunes' Ankles

"We're in final discussions with a number of publishers, device makers, and technology companies. We will soon develop an innovative subscription model to deliver digital content to consumers wherever and whenever they want it," Murdoch said. Whatever it is, it will live or die by its payment method.READ»

TED Opens Its Video Library to Broadcast Television Worldwide

TED, the conference at which many fascinating, time-wasting, and productivity-killing videos are made, has decided to make those videos available to broadcast TV stations worldwide. READ»

Today in Most Innovative Companies

News of note from our Most Innovative Companies, including HP, Hulu, Toyota, and Facebook.READ»

Payday: Ustream's Pay-Per-View Online Entertainment

Will Ustream's pay-per-view experiment forge a business model for live Internet video?READ»

Why Bitbop, Fox's Mobile Video Subscription Service, Is No Hulu

A video subscription service for smartphones is to be launched at CTIA today by Fox Mobile Group, owned by that champion of the free Internet, Rupert Murdoch. (Can I just say how amazing it is to have Peyote on your cornflakes each ...READ»

Encoding HD Faster with Kulabyte

Kulabyte. Blake Wenzel, co-founder, shows how Kulabyte makes encoding technology for HD TV stations that works faster than others and can fit onto a standard laptop. This is part of our tour of interesting San Antonio, TX, tech ...READ»

Talking Child Protection Issues with FCC Commissioner

In our recent trip we visited FCC Commissioner, Jonathan Adelstein, and we had a wide-ranging conversation about a number of topics including child protection issues, which he’s passionate about.READ»

Part I: King of Tech Talk, Leo Laporte

[video_twistage 1]Leo Laporte is on radio shows across the nation, most notably on KFI in Los Angeles and KGO in San Francisco, two of the most listened to radio stations in the world. His This Week in Tech show has the largest tech ...READ»

Part II: King of Tech Talk, Leo Laporte

Part II: Leo Laporte is on radio shows across the nation, most notably on KFI in Los Angeles and KGO in San Francisco, two of the most listened to radio stations in the world. His This Week in Tech show has the largest tech podcast ...READ»

Analyst: Chatty Facebookers Prefer Broadcast News, Staid Googlers Prefer Print

More good news for Ron Burgundy. Analysis of onwards Web site visits from Facebook and Google to news services reveals Facebookers prefer broadcast media sources, while Google sends people to print media. But why? The data's ...READ»

radio advertising pa page

Radio advertising is obviously the cheapest advertising strategy today because most advertising strategy cost expensively.READ»

Radio Ga Ga: Sirius XM Once Again King of All (New Car) Media

The satellite broadcast business is now Siriusly rocking it. (Sorry.)READ»

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Watch online TV on Your PC -- Satellite Direct

Are you interested to know more about the Satellite Direct TV software that supposedly allows you to watch all your favorite TV channels such as sports, premium movie channels, international TV shows and many other genres? If you are ...READ»