Topic: TV Networks

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»

Trampled at Wal-Mart -- or Trampling Wal-Mart?

Chances are good that you've already heard about the woman down in Florida who was reportedly knocked unconscious by fellow shoppers, all rushing to get $29 DVD players the moment Wal-Mart opening the Friday after Thanksgiving. It ...READ»

Upfront's Nostalgic Look Back

Yesterday's Upfront presentation by NBC held all the the usual appeal for the 26-year-old agency employee (Watch Jerome Bettis throw a football into the balcony! Watch Regis Philbin catch another one! Watch Matthew Perry take on a ...READ»

NBC: Not Broadcasting Comedy

It's my favorite time of year, folks: Upfront week. This is when the TV networks display their new wares for the fall season and get advertisers to commit to paying for all of it. $9 billion is expected to change hands in the coming ...READ»

New Media News

Yahoo Launches Mobile Social-Networking Service "Yahoo has quietly launched an experimental site that offers mobile-phone subscribers the ability to send text messages and share videos and pictures among friends. The service follows ...READ»

The Idiot Box Wises Up

Distance learning pioneer Jack Munushian died late last month. The aerospace engineer and University of Southern California educator helped develop the Instructional Television Network, which delivered lectures and courses via ...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»

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»

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»

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»

Ambush Marketers, Swag Suites & HP at Sundance

The North Face and Lexus present The Ice Lounge, a hospitality lounge built to bring together celebrities, filmmakers, media and the environmental community. (PRNewsFoto/The Ice Lounge) Though one usually thinks movie marketing ...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»

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»

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»

Just Two Good Ole Boys...

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

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»

It's Not TV. It's TVU.

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

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

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»

What's Next? Web Lifestyle Television

LX.TV, a new broadband television network, launched yesterday as the first broadband television network for young affluent online consumers. Although LX.TV first appeared in June of this year as CODE.TV, LX.TV now stands for ...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»