Topic: FOX Broadcasting Company

Fox Helps You Help It...

To save its award-winning Arrested Development TV series, as reported in The New York Times. It's a strange turning of the tables--normally it's in our hands to try and save our favorite TV shows from getting the ax by petitioning to ...READ»

Fox's Twitter TV Experiment Tweets Its Way to Epic Failure

When Fox revealed its plan to broadcast reruns of Fringe and Glee with a live Twitter feed overlay, I said they had to be really really careful. But Fox didn't listen. From user comments online it looks like ...READ»

Seth MacFarlane’s $2 Billion Family Guy Empire

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has built an empire of staggering proportions that nabbed him a record $100 million deal with Fox. And, with an innovative new series of animated shorts distributed by Google -- "Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy" -- he’s even teaching the search giant new ways to exploit the Web. Could this crude frat-boy cartoonist really be a model for business in the postmodern age?READ»

• Breaking Down Family Guy's Billions
• The 6 Most Bizarre Family Guy Moments
• The 10 Most Controversial Family Guy Moments

Media: Online Video Newlyweds

The unlikely marriage of General Electric's NBC Universal and News Corp.'s Fox is official. The wedded name: Hulu.com. The online-video site is expected to provide free episodes of 90 NBC and Fox shows. The site is also offering a ...READ»

Fox's Fringe Twitter-Feed Overlay: Clever or a Mistake?

Fox is tapping into the real-time social network mojo with a gimmick on re-runs of Fringe and Glee: Each program will carry a Twitter feed containing text from the cast and questions from fans. Clever idea, or disaster in the ...READ»

The Branson Called You

Richard Branson, the high-energy CEO of Virgin, has signed on with Fox to develop a new reality TV show. Like the business moguls Mark Cuban and Donald Trump before him, Branson will challenge contestants to overcome a series of ...READ»

Battling Billionaires

Mark Cuban and Richard Branson are taking on the Donald with their own brand of reality TV. Here's our sneak preview.READ»

Hulu Gets 'Lost' With Disney's Equity Stake

Walt Disney Company is taking an equity stake in Hulu.com, the Web's third most popular pit stop for video, according to the AP. The site, originally a joint venture between NBC Universal and Fox parent News Corp, will now have ...READ»

YouTube the next Fox Network?

YouTube has a similar path as the Fox Network.READ»

YouTube the next Fox Network?

YouTube has a similar path as the Fox Network.READ»

Seth MacFarlane’s Stirs Up New Trouble -- and Racks Up Another Hit

Did Family Guy go too far in its recent episode that suggested Nazis would have supported the McCain-Palin ticket? Does Seth MacFarlane care? Not likely, if his continuing string of hits is any indication.READ»

• Seth MacFarlane’s $2 Billion Family Guy Empire
• Breaking Down Family Guy's Billions

Hulu Scores with its Super Bowl Ad, Featuring Alec Baldwin and his Freaky New Diet

Until Sunday, late in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl, Hulu had never run a TV ad. Although it’s a joint startup created by Fox and NBC Universal, the launch last March wasn’t accompanied by a big splashy campaign on one or ...READ»

Cut Your Cable: Hulu's Top 10 TV Shows

1 Family Guy You can get the five most recent episodes and more than 300 clips of Seth MacFarlane's crude cartoon. Hulu's most-watched episode as of September: "Stew-roids." 2 The Office The show is also among NBC's ...READ»

• The Unlikely Mogul
• The Wild World of Web TV

"We're Fired!"

As big auto makers are offering incentive discounts to boost car sales, the Chrysler Group has decided not to renew its sponsorship for the second season of NBC's popular reality show The Apprentice. Other automakers have also ...READ»

Any Story is for Sale

Any story is for sale these days: the more sordid, the better. O.J. Simpson’s story must have been particularly tantalizing to Fox Broadcasting and HarperCollins, both owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. If you ...READ»

Can Hulu Save Traditional TV?

Can Jason Kilar and his hit site Hulu save traditional TV from itself while remaking it for the future?READ»

• The Fast Company 50 - 2009: Hulu
• The Wild World of Web TV
• Cut the Cable: All-Time Top 10 TV Shows on Hulu

REPORT: Top 25 Digital Influencers in News & Politics

Never before have so many tools been available to analyze and clarify digital influence. The 2009 Digital Influence in News and Politics Report leverages these tools to measure the influence of those best-in-class media companies in the digital sphere. Sparxoo evaluated over 100 news and politics media outlets...READ»

The Office: Ratings Report

The incomparable Programming Insider, Marc Berman, at Mediaweek, has the overnight ratings: The Office won the 9:30 p.m. half-hour with a 9.7/14 in the overnights and a 5.0/13 among adults 18-49 (and a second-place 11.27 million ...READ»

Hulu: YouTube Killer? No, The Internet's Nick at Nite

Hulu, NBC and FOX's joint Web video site, opened to the public today after being in private beta since late October. I'm not going to do a full review (there have been plenty; check here and here for starters) but from looking over ...READ»

Big Media's New Face

In a me-too business, the video titans' Web strategies reveal some fresh experimentation.READ»

Culture

Anne Every morning as I read another dreary story of greed-head corporate malfeasance and insider arrogance, I remember two of my favorite pieces of satire. One is a comedy sketch starring Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live, where ...READ»

Americans Watched a Record-Setting 21.4 Billion Web Videos in July

Ah, summertime. There's no better time of year to shutter oneself indoors and watch videos on the Web--at least that's what the latest numbers released by comScore would suggest. In July, 158 million U.S. Internet users watched a ...READ»

FG Now

Last night, Fox aired the first new episode of Family Guy since February 2002. For the first time ever, a show that was canceled has come back years later due to home video (and cable reruns). This is a clear display how a new ...READ»

Title Shot

Capture it all in 30 seconds.READ»

Hulu: The Second Life of Network Shows

Hulu has made online hits of network also-rans.READ»

• The Unlikely Mogul
• All-Time Top 10 TV Shows on Hulu