Topic: Television Broadcasting and Production

Comcast–NBC: Strategic Wunderkind or Orphan Children of a Bad Economy?

As I was walking back from a member meeting several days ago I walked past a long line of well dressed people standing outside of a building on Broadway. When asked what they were in line for one of them said a job fair. They were ...READ»

How Long Can Free Broadcast TV Last? Not Long, Perhaps

Though Time Warner's CEO Jeff Bewkes has his own agenda to push regarding the future of TV, speaking to the Daily Beast recently he mentioned the future of free-to-air TV. He thinks it hasn't got one, and he may have a point. Among ...READ»

Hara Scores Big With News Corp Energy Management Deal

Earlier this week we designated Hara as one of our 10 green startups to watch, and now the company has hit it big with a deal with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. The environmental and energy management software startup was chosen by ...READ»

Must-Have TV

Congress, according to the New York Times today, has now mandated that all TV sets must be digital-capable by April 7, 2009 (which, for you sports fans, is one day after that year's NCAA basketball championship game). What the heck ...READ»

Ffwd to Bring Order to the World of Online Video

Patrick KoppulaCEO Ffwd> San Francisco, California Patrick Koppula, 34, who cofounded the popular music-recommendation site iLike, started Ffwd (pronounced fast forward) to bring order to the world of online video. "TV has ...READ»

• TiVo Brings Web Video to TV
• ESPN Scores With Broadband TV Network
• Google Takes on TV Ads

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»

"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»

The Media Blues

Tokyo — NBC’s Beijing Olympics coverage was over the top, with more coverage over the air, on its cable networks, and online than in all the years since the 1960 Olympics, combined. But here’s the shocker: despite streaming ...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

What Is Sugar, Inc. and Why Is It Worth $31M in VC Funding?

Sequoia Capital announced yesterday that it will give a third round of cash to a quick-growing media network, Sugar Inc., bringing the Valley-based company's total VC purse to $31 million. Sugar also announced that it would hire the ...READ»

The Greening of Rupert Murdoch

Attendees of last week's meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative were asked to make specific commitments toward advancing solutions to global problems such as poverty, religious and ethnic conflict and climate change. While Richard ...READ»

Hit Man (Part 1)

Tony Soprano is back (finally). Six Feet Under is tops (now). And Chris Albrecht is smiling (really). The head of HBO is the most original mind in television. Here's his program for innovation.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»

MySpace Seeks Relationship with Google

Following Google’s $1.65 billion deal to purchase YouTube this Monday, News Corp’s MySpace.com has announced interest in expanding its own relationship with Google, and plans to meet with the search engine giant later this week ...READ»

It's Not TV. It's TVU.

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

In Today's Papers

For the clip file: New Service From Amazon Offers Downloadable Films "Amazon.com, the leading purveyor of goods online, has started selling digital products, offering movies and television programs that can be downloaded and ...READ»

Commercial Success

Traditional advertising is in deep trouble. Now Yahoo is reinventing the game thanks to ad boss Wenda Millard. And her cooperative approach is winning over Madison Avenue.READ»

Viacom Could Embrace YouTube and Create New Ad Revenue

Viacom is treating YouTube like a copyright infringer, but there's an easy win-win scenario: advertising barter and a per-subscriber fee. All Viacom needs to do is to think of YouTube as just another ad-supported distribution ...READ»

Will Hulu Get a Pay Wall in 2010?

Looks like the concept of paying for online content is getting a boost from a slightly unexpected quarter: Rumors are abounding that free Internet TV portal Hulu will erect at least a partial pay wall sometime next year. As rumors ...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

Apple/ABC Deal: The First Ripple

To the surprise of no one, the new deal between Apple and Disney -- which enables iPod users to download popular ABC TV shows such as "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" as soon as the day after airing -- is causing a commotion. A ...READ»

Take Me Out to the...Cable TV Network?!

What to do about sagging network television ratings? Why of course! Move the programming to cable, where even fewer people will see it. At least that’s Major League Baseball’s plan. Since the lead-up to the Fall Classic isn’t ...READ»

Broadcast.com (Now Yahoo! Broadcast Services)

Mark Cuban is a hard man to catch. When Fast Company first spoke with the co-founder of Broadcast.com, Cuban was in the midst of what he called the "broadcast.com 'sprint'" -- a race to maintain the streaming media site's position as ...READ»

Acquisitions and Merger Trends in Internet Media

Amy Webb (not sure if that is actually her real name :) has posted and interesting illustration showing recent mergers and acquisitions and how they've shaped the Web landscape over the last few years. The diagram shows who owns ...READ»