Hey ABC: Take the High Road and Simul-Stream the Oscars (Updated)
(Update, 8:55 pm: The WABC feed was restored. Cablevision said it made made significant progress to come to terms with ABC.) A dispute over what Cablevision New York should pay for ABC’s free-to-air...
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Hulu’s Reported Subscription Plans Portend Cable Showdown
Subscriptions are by far the most popular way to watch television in this country, where most households pay for cable or satellite programming. But nowhere is it written in stone that they’ll continue...
View Article5-Year-Old YouTube Tops Networks’ Primetime With 2 Billion Views
America’s Funniest Home Videos may have pioneered the YouTube concept, but as the site reaches the five-year mark, its audience size is no laughing matter. YouTube’s viewership now exceeds that of all...
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Networks Proving A Tough Sell for Google TV (Surprise!)
Google TV would combine video cable, satellite, web pages and possibly one’s own home network into a single, searchable interface — with contextual Google ads, of course. Makes perfect sense for...
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5 Reasons Why Apple TV Is (Still) Boring
We know — the new Apple TV is really small, and it finally focuses on renting rather than purchasing television shows, integrates iOS devices as remote controls, has an optical audio output for...
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ABC’s Ingenious App Uses Sound to Sync iPad, TV
The video demonstration for ABC’s new iPad app is hokey, derivative, a bit cheesy, and doesn’t stop playing when you want it to — as one might expect from a big television network strutting its online...
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Google TV Growing Pains: Networks Block Web TV Shows
Google’s throwing a party, but network TV is snubbing the invitation. Three major broadcast networks are blocking Google TV’s access to their online programs. That’s not a good first sign for a product...
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Yahoo, ABC, HuffPo, ESPN: How Do You Run a News Portal?
First thing Monday morning Yahoo and ABC News announced a new distribution deal — familiar stuff, albeit between two big partners. It will encompass gems from the TV network’s global news and politics...
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“Beloved, not Beliked’: Why TV’s Live and Streaming Audiences Are Diverging
With live television, we flip; with video on demand, we binge. This means that shows have to catch and hold our attention in very different ways — not just over the commercial, but from episode to...
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