Topic: TV Networks

MTV Bumps Vevo as Top Online Music Destination, Igniting a Web Video Flame War

MTV Networks has taken over Vevo as the No. 1 spot for music videos online. What does this mean for labels Universal and Warner Music Group?READ»

Atom.com Creates Campy Comedy Web Series

Explosive late-night comedy -- and a shot at TV.READ»

Starling, the David of Social TV Apps, Facing Down Google and Comcast's Goliaths

People have long been aware that, during big TV moments--epic sports contests or the finale of Lost, for example--the Twittersphere rapidly fills up with TV-related hashtags. Last week Google Ventures invested in Miso, a social TV app ...READ»

Apple's iPad Disrupting the Network TV Business Model? I'd Buy That for a Dollar!

The iTunes pricing debate is be getting hotter, as the iPad's launch date approaches, with news that networks are wary of Apple's lower price plans. The TV industry's following the music and publishing biz here...will things be ...READ»

Hulu's Competitors: The Wild World of Web TV

Media giants and startups -- not to mention pirates -- are chasing an online-video audience of 158 million. Here's how key players connect to, and compete with, Hulu.READ»

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

Rumor: Apple Wants to Route Your TV Shows Through iTunes

Apple rumors swirl practically every week, but there's rarely one that's as potentially game-changing as this one: According to insiders, the company's aiming to cut out the cable TV middle man, and serve up network TV to as many as ...READ»

Isabella Rossellini Returns With 3rd Round of Green Porno

Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno, a series of shorts from the Sundance Channel that explores sex in nature, has been a runaway hit, drawing millions of viewers on a regular basis. Now Rossellini is back for the third and final ...READ»

Using Social Media to Go From David to Goliath: Greenpeace at CES 2009

Non-profit organizations usually have smaller budgets than for-profit corporations. And often, their staff is smaller too. It's for this reason that many nonprofits have embraced online outreach and engagement. Social media in ...READ»

New Studies Provide Insight Into Twitter Tweeters

Recently a couple of studies all about Twitter usage were released. This is great news to all of us working in the social media field who previously had mostly case studies and empirical experience to guide organizations in best ...READ»

Turbocharging Your Twitter Power--6 Rules for the Road

I counsel a lot of people both formally as a consultant and in my private life informally about Twitter. I hear from folks who say they're not interested: "I don't want to know what people are having for breakfast!" My response is ...READ»

The Death of the Digital Divide--Or a New One?

Is it premature to toll the bells for the death of the digital divide? I've been speaking to corporations and nonprofits for several years now, citing various statistics such as those found at eMarketer, which is a great source for ...READ»

I Am Mommy, Hear Me Roar

I just got back from BlogHer, the largest gathering of female bloggers in America. It's the 5th year of the conference and has grown from a scrappy, homegrown, volunteer effort to a nationally renowned, corporate-sponsored ...READ»

Isabella Rossellini's 'Green Porno,' Round 2

What's the best way to turn people on to wildlife? Make porn, of course! The first season of Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno series, that focused on insect sex, was a smash hit on the Sundance Channel's Web site. Now the actress ...READ»

Kindle Gets New Legal Threat, Weirdly From Discovery Channel

The Kindle is clearly a paradigm-shifting device, signaling as it does the start of the digital book revolution--so it's only natural to expect people to get shaken up by it. And earlier this year the Author's Guild got antsy about ...READ»

MBA Media and Entertainment Conference

We all know MBAs love to network, and here’s yet another chance for business school students to hobnob with top-level executives, this time in media, sports and entertainment. Jeff Zucker, president and CEO of NBC Universal, and ...READ»

The Beatles Join MTV’s Digital Empire

MTV is on a roll. Just days after announcing a fresh new music video web site comes news that MTV Networks will license songs from the Beatles for an upcoming video game from Harmonix, the makers of Rock Band.READ»

• MTV’s Digital Makeover
• MTV Finally Returns to the Music Video Business

The Jetsons are Here!!

Face to Face video communications for anyone is here now. Live webcasting to anyone anywhere in the world. Live 5 way video conferencing, video emails, video blogging, podcasting and more, all for only $9.95/mo. Now anyone can have ...READ»

Voyage of Discovery

Discovery Communications (DCI) which airs Dirty Jobs has more than 100 TV networks reaching 1.5 billion subscribers. Here are four of DCI's key properties.READ»

Media: MTV Content to Bolster imeem's Business

Now that imeem has secured rights to music from all the major labels, as I reported earlier on this blog, the social media network is looking to expand its offerings in the video department. Its announcement today indicates that it ...READ»

Television 2.0: Coming to a (Computer) Screen Near You

YouTube is just the beginning. If new research is to be believed, the Internet could eventually replace TV. Meet the innovators -- including Joost and Revision 3 -- who are reinventing television.READ»

Quincy Jones III Builds a Digital Entertainment Brand

While longstanding entertainment brands are scrambling to find their own MySpace or YouTube strategy to get their businesses back on track, Quincy D. Jones III, and his company's president, Paul A. Campbell, a former Microsoft business development executive, have set their sights on taking their company, QD3 Entertainment, to the forefront of digital urban entertainment.READ»

Just Two Good Ole Boys...

Two city slickers help make MTV's country music channel, CMT, cool without alienating a devoted audience of diehard country music fans.READ»

It's Not TV. It's TVU.

A new technology lets anyone broadcast and watch live TV online.READ»

Just Two Good Ole Boys...

How CMT is making cowboy boots, pickup trucks, and woeful ballads cool. But not too cool.READ»

Reading List: Desperate Networks

Desperate Networks shows how network TV got stuck on "smoking hot hits.READ»